FLOCKS DECREASING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2032, 5 March 1908, Page 2

FLOCKS DECREASING.

The last year or two statisticians tell us there has been a great diminution of sheep flocks in the world. In the ten years between 1895 and 1905 the number of sheep in the world, according to Mr. Bennett, an American authority, decreased by some 72 millions—viz, from 526,867,000 to 453,047,000. There can be little doubt that this decrease is one of the causes contributing to the present high prices of wool, and if the decrease continues, prices will tend to harden. To the sheep-owner of New Zealand, the last-mentioned fact is of course gratifying, and it now remains for him to secure the greatest benefit by producing wool plentiful in quantity, but also exceptional in duality. Home buyers naturally want as good a bargain as possible, and they will only give the best prices for the very best wool. When a sheep’s skin is healthy and clean it is bound to produce a healthy fleece, and buyers know this directly they handle 'the wool. The aim of the grower should therefore be to produce a healthy fleece acceptable to the buyer, and great' assistance can be derived from a good sheep dip in attaining this result. A really good sheep dip such as Quibell’s cleans the sheep’s skin and helps to make the sheep healthy, and so produce a good fleece. Some dips kill vermin all right, but they act as an irritant instead of an emollient to the skin. They render the wool .harsh and britle, as well as discoloring it, and so reduce the value of the clip very markedly. Quibell’s Dip, on the contrary, tends to make the fleece fine and soft and lustrous, lor which top prices ’arc naturally given. Many of the men who are getting top prices in the world’s wool markets use Quibell’s—men like. Henry Duckling, of Grimsby, England owner of the famous Uibv Grove Linc?,l«; air John S. -Horsfall, owner of. tke M idgiewa and other flocks, w inch took tho greatest number of P"® B the Sydney show of 1905 and 1906; tne proprietors of the famous Cashmere Estate, in Canterbury; and others. Wool growers cannot go'wrong m lollowmg the lead of such men, whose names stand for all that is High class and up to date in woolgrowing, and using Quibell’s Dip on t urn- Hocks. Assuredly it will pay them. * J