THE NEW SHEEP DIP AND SCAB SPECIFIC.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2136, 29 December 1880, Page 1

THE NEW SHEEP DIP AND SCAB SPECIFIC.

This now nan-poisonous sheep dipping fluid, after four years' trial in Australia and Great Britain, and which has been mors prominently brought under the notioa of the sheep-breeders and owners of New Zealand during the last eighteen months than hitherto,, may be truly said to hare established its position as a cure for the many ailments to which sheep are liable. The colonial agents, Messrs Dam brain and Son?, of Oashel street, Christchurch, have received a whole pile of testimonials as to its efficiency from the most noted wool growers of this colony, and it must be gratifying alike to agents and owners to know that its cheapness (trio cost of dipping each sheep being less than ens halfpenny) itsefficacy in destroying all insect in sheep, and. also its harmlessness has assured it a hearty reception from' those who are naturally incredulous as to the merits of anything new. Apart, from the benefits already enumerated asaccruing from the use of this fluid—is. that it has been to increase the growth wool. —testimony to which has been borne by more than one of the many who hare used it. If it possesses all the many virtues claimed, for it—and the undoubted bona fides of the. testimonials seem to point to that conclusion —and bearing in mind the fact that the last returns showed the number of sheep in this. colony to amount to nearly twelve millions,, it may bo reasonably conjeotured that thespecific will aoon be more largely used, and considered an indispocsible adjunct to every sheep station or sheep farm. And not theleast of its advantages is that no fuel is required, as it mixes readily with cold water, and " being of a warm and protecting.character, sheep will not catch cold though dipped in the depth of winter,'' so that the old days of smoking sheep dips, with their attendant poisonous fumes, may be truly said to belong to the past. The medal of special marit has been awarded it by the Sanitary. Institute of Britain,, which vouches for its. cleanliness and harmlessness to those engaged is its manufacture or use —the names of such, well-known. Canterbury wool growers as Messrs Gould and Cameron, Joseph Pearson and B. B. Pitt, are full attestations of its value and passwords to its general u&a.