Does Dipping Improve the Wool.
Many sbeepowners believe that the sole benefit derived from sheep is that of relieving them from their tormenting pests, but when a good dip is used this appears not to be its only beneficial property, A large Queensland squatter whose sheep are run on dean country, and are quite free from insect pests of any kind, last season tried the experiment, with the object of ascertaining whether dipping improved the wool, and thus dipped half his flock (in Cooper's Dipping Powder), leaving tbe other half undipped. Samples of both the dipped and undipped fleeces were afterwards sent to Messrs Jacomb, Son and Co., the well-known wool salesmen of Moorgate street, London, and under date December last, they report, A (the Cooper dipped portion) to be worth ojd per lb ; sample B (the undipped) r they value at 7d, thus showing that dipping can increase the value of a clip by isd per lb.
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Manawatu Herald, 19 January 1899, Page 3
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158Does Dipping Improve the Wool. Manawatu Herald, 19 January 1899, Page 3
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