DOES DIPPING IMPROVE THE WOOL?
Many sheep-owners believe that the solo benefit from dipping sheep is that of relieving them from their tormenting posts, 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 clean country, and are quite free from insect pesto of any kind, last season tried the experiment to ascertain whether dipping improved the wool, and dipped half his flock (in Cooper's dipping powder), leaving the 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 the Ist November last, they report sample " A" (the Cooper-dipped portion) to be worth per lb ; sample "B" (the undipped) they value at 7d, thus showing that dipping can increase the value of a clip by three half-pence per lb.
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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 375, 29 December 1898, Page 2
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154DOES DIPPING IMPROVE THE WOOL? Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 375, 29 December 1898, Page 2
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