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pound is about the increase, according to the season. _ I have proved 

 this by actual weighing. A dip in itself does not directly influence 

 a better growth, but it does indirectly by promoting a healthy skin, 

 and by freeing the animal from annoyances that have a debilitating 

 effect. It won't make wool grow where it is deficient on a sheep, but 

 it will make the woolly parts grow more wool than on a similar sheep 

 undipped, and this extra growth of carcass and wool leaves a profit 

 sufficiently large to compensate the owner for all the extra work under- 

 taken. Small owners of from 100 to 200 sheep do not want so large 

 a plant; for these numbers dips can be built to suit their requirements 

 very cheaply, and if it is done on co-operative lines, like shearing, one 

 individual would not feel the cost, which should not exceed, after the 

 dip is constructed, 10s., and the profit would be £3 to £4 in money 

 value, that is for very small lots above-mentioned, where they have to 

 be driven 4 or 5 miles. Spraying the dip on to the sheep is not effective 

 in ridding it of vermin, because you cannot get it into all the crevices, 

 as it were, and the sheep have to be up-ended to get at the belly parts. 

 The swim is the only effective way, the sheep being entirely immersed 

 at least once during the swim. The swim does not require to be 

 longer than about 20 feet, provided the sheep are allowed to remain 

 in the right time, and if the right medium is used at the right strength. 

 It is the dip that tells. It is always as well to test the strength by using 

 it on two or three sheep before the general dipping takes place. Seven 

 to eight hundred sheep an hour is fair work. 



"Crowfoot." — The Pastoral Review, N'ovember, j915. 



