A PROFITABLE INVESTMENT.

Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 359, 27 October 1898, Page 5 (Supplement)

A PROFITABLE INVESTMENT.

FOR SHEEPMEN TO THINK ABOUT. cooper's sheep dip. Every hour which a sheep spends in efforts to relieve itself from the tormenting pests -which so notoriously infest it, means, in reality, a loss lo its owner. When thus worried, day and night, the animal cannot feed in comfort, and in consequence is retarded in putting on condition. It is easily conceivable that the continuance for months of this state of things, may result in the locs of a sliding or more, or to keep safely within the limits, let us put it onlysixpence per head. Hut this great, loss in condition is lees serious than that from injury to the wool which is one of nature's products extren.ely sensitive to its surroundings. The wool that is not torn out by the animal reaches the market in such a condition as to command only inferior prices.

One seldom takes up a report of the Wool Market without seeing pomfithing such as this :—" Good clips are in demand and secure easy sales at top prices. For poor samples there is little or no demand. Now, acknowledging that dipping is the necessary evil it is often said to"be, yet how does it stand against not dipping at all? Assuming the loss from depreciation of condition and wool to be, say, ooly one shilling per head, whilst the oof-t of dipping is but a half-penny—this half penny spent in dipping yields a prof t of over two thousand per ant. If regarded in this, its real light, owners would never begrudge the halfpenny thus spent in nipping their sheet. They would also see that the dip which costs the lialf-penny, and keeps sheep clean six months, is a three times cheaper dip than another which costs a farthing, and keeps them clean scarcely one month.

" Completely successful results can only be insured by strictly following tho simple directions for use, printed on each packet. As this Dip cannot vary in strength or quality variation in r.-suits is soiely caused by variation in application."