Pointers on Sheep Dips.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 185, 8 February 1897, Page 2

Pointers on Sheep Dips.

Dips which entirely and instantly dissolve in the bath water, display like "nimbleness" when subjected to the rain which falls on the sheep afterwards, and ar* quickly washed away. Theffc lasting properties of a dip should ent«r largely into your calculation of ill eoit. A. Dip which looks cheao in an invoice may prove frightfully dear at the shearing. Cooper's Powder has more lasting properties than anj other dip in the world, and is therefore the cheapest, and that is the reason why the world uses it. The owners of more than one-fourth of the sheep in existence, now annually select Cooper's, out of the hundreds of other dips there are in the market. When Cooper's Dip is uhoronghly mixed, and used according to the simple directions, it gives no trouble. But a good dip well repays ordinary car*, whilst a simple " Tonchthe-Button Dip" produces only transient effects. No Dip is worth the application unless it contains sulphur. The latter exercises a notoriously beneficial effect upon the skin which re-acts on the wool and its presence is the only reliable preventive of re-infection and of maggot fly, and as an ingradient of Cooper's Dip, it does not injure the wool. Dr Bowman, one of the greatest living authorities on wool, recommends Cooper's Dip, »nd the notorious fact that Cooper Dipped clips top the wool markets of the world, justify the recommendation. The manufacture of a good sheep dip, at once effective, safe, and beneficial to the sheep and wool, reqnires more know, ledge of chemistry, skill and special experience than farmers possess, The numerous instances of even chemists trying and failing to put up satisfactory sheep dips, prove the correctness of this statement. Last season one of the largest holdings of sheep in this colony abandoned the use of Cooper's in favour of a homemade Dip —on the score of economy. They have reverted to the use of Cooper this season, taking over 250 cases. Having tried both, nnder the most favourable circumstances, they find Homemade Dips to be false economy after all. Like many of the best articles in use Cooper's is an imported Dip. Bnt sheepowners who depend on the English market for the disposal of their products of wool and mutton ought to be the last to objeefe to take a trifle like Sheep Dip in return. Anyway the appenls to " patriotism " by interested Loc&l Dip makers are not likely to influence sensible men. The repntation of Cooper's Dip does net rest upon any " Sheep Dip Trial " so called. The great Sheep Dip Trial of the world commenced nearly sixty years ago, and has been carried on with increasing vigour ever since. Each season during that long period Cooper's Dip has so constantly gained on all its competitors that it is now nsed on more sheep than all of them put together. Such a splendid fact as this oan very well speak for itself.