LAMB-DIPPING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9665, 2 December 1909, Page 6

LAMB-DIPPING.

A SPLENDID INVESTMENT. No operation on a sheep farm gives a butter return for labor and money expended than that of dipping lambs as soon as possible after the ewes are shorn. The benefits which the youngsters derive from a bath in a hiech-class non-poisonous dip are simply marvellous. Ticks and other parasites, which after shearing find their way from the ewea on to the rougher fleeces of the lambs, and there luxuriate, keep .their little hosts in constant torment and regular employment rubbing and scratch ing instead of putting on flesh as they ought, and would, if they had only peace to do so. Before putting lambs on to rape in particular it is an absolute necessity that they should be dipped if their owner is to reap the full value of the food they consume. There ar3 no points in growing rape or other valuable green feed to,fatten ticks; yet, ridiculous as it may seem, that is just exactly what scores of farmers throughout New Zealand and Australia are doing to-day. turn their lambs on to the feed \ jn the cultivation of which they have spent money, time and labour) in an undipped state, and consequently with more or less ticks about them. The result is that these ticks keep up a constant irritation, which, of course, means that the lambs are being deprived of a large amount of the benefits of the food they eat, and equally, as a m'atler of courae, their owner is a heavy loser in hard cash in consequence. The writer had the privilege of interviewing prominent lamb-buyers throughout New Zealand, and the opinions unanimously expressed by these gentlemen are that if farmers would only dip their lambs after the ewes are shorn, or before being put on to rape, they would benefit quite Is to Is 6d per head. On a line of 1,000 lambs this would mean anything from £SO to £75 perhaps more. The cost of dipping all these lambs with Quibell's Non-poisonous Dip—which is undoubtedly the best reparation fur lamb-dipping—would

be from £1 5s to £1 10s. In other words, the man who dipped would benefit to the extent of from £6O to £7O on 1,000 lambs over, the man who would not take the trouble to do so. The same authorities also very strongly condemn the use of poisonous dips for lambs of tender age which are to be fed off quickly. Poisonous dips, they say, have a tendency to give the lambs a check, and they seem to make no progress at all for ten days or a fortnight This means so much good food wasted. After a bath in Quibell's Non-poison-ous Fluid Dip they thrive every hour and utilise every ounce of food they eat till they are shipped to the freezing works. Order Quibell's Nonpoisonous Liquid Dip for your lambs, now. You will never make a better investment.*