SHEEP DIP.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 35, 9 January 1884, Page 2

SHEEP DIP.

This subject being one of the great-* est importance to sheep-farmers, we take the opportunity of calling attention to it, and base our remarks on a report, in another column, of a meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society, held in Napier on the 3rd of August last, when the various dips in the New Zealand market were tested. After freely dealing with the question, the Committee were of opinion that “there remained only three mixtures—Thomas’, Cooper’s, and Jeye’s—which were effective and not injurious to the sheep or wool, the former being the cheapest of the three, and this is a most important consideration. The main object in sheepdipping is, of course, to kill the parasites, and the next consideration the cost of effecting that purpose j therefore, Thomas’ mixture must be deemed the most desirable for the use of the sheep-farmer, whose study is, or should be, to grow wool at the smallest possible cost. There is no occasion for our dilating on this subject, as it is fully dealt with in the report in another column; but we may point out that the matter must be bonsidered a colonial one, and that the test of the different dips has been made in a district second only to Canterbury in this Colony, by gentlemen competent to give an opinion on the very important question of the comparative merits of the dips tested. Sheep-farmers will, undoubtedly, read the report with much interest, and we would suggest that they should study its details carefully, so as to form a correct estimate of the great value of a dip that combines cheapness with the most beneficial effects.