Pointers on Sheep Dips.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 186, 9 February 1897, Page 3

Pointers on Sheep Dips.

Dips whioh entirely and instantly dis wive in the bath water, display lik» •» nimbleneas " when snbjeoted to the rain which falls on the sheep afterwards. and are quickly washed away. These lasting properties of a dip should enter largely into your calculation of its cost. A Dip which looks cheap in an invoice may prove frightfully dear at the shearing. Cooper's Powder has more lasting properties than any other dip in the world, and is therefore the cheapest, and that is die reason why the world uses it. The owners of more than one- fourth of the sheep in existence, now annually •elect Cooper's, ont of the hundreds of ether dips there are in the market. When Cooper's Dip is thoroughly nixed, and nsed according to the simple directions, it gives no trouble. But a good dip well repays ordinary cars, whilst a simple " Touch the- 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 reacts on the wool and its presence is the only reliable preventive of reinfection and of maggot fly, and as an ingrsdient of Cooper's Dip, it does not injure the wool. Dr Bowman, one of the greatest living authorities on wool, recommends Cooper's Dip, and 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, requires more knowledge of chemistry, skill and •pecial 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-ow the srore of economy. They have reverted to the use of Cooper this season, taking over 250 cases. Having tried both, under 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. But Bbeepowners who depend on the English market for the disposal of their products of wool and mutton ought to be tbe last to object to take a trifle like Sheep Dip in return. Anyway the appeals to "pat riotism " by interested Local Dip makers are not likely to influence sensible men The repntation of Cooper's Dip does not 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 com petitors that it is now nsed on more ■beep than all of them put together. Such a splendid fact as this can very well speak for itself.