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Hardware and incidentals. 



100 pounds 20-penny spikes. 

 20 pounds 40-penny spikes. 

 2 6-inch double-leaf blocks. 

 1 5-inch single-leaf block. 

 100 feet 1-inch rope. 

 25 feet 1 \ -inch iron pipe. 



1 galvanized-iron heating tank (5 barrels capacity). 

 4 oil barrels. 



FIG. *. Sand glass. For timing the animals in the dip. Is made of two ordinary ketchup bcttles 

 connected by a hollow wooden cork, placed in a box, and the box hung on a pin through the 

 center to revolve, as shown in the illustration. 



ADVANTAGES OF THE SMALL DIPPING PLANT. 



A plant of this capacity will answer very well in a community where 

 various owners have bunches of cattle ranging from 80 to 100 head or 

 less. Among its chief advantages over the larger swimming tank are 

 cheapness in construction, because of its size, and proportionately 

 smaller expense in operating; the dip can be kept at the required tem- 

 perature with facility, because of its lesser volume, and the submer- 

 sion of the animals, as well as the length of time it is desired to keep 

 them in the dip, can be more easily regulated. 



In communities where mange does not exist, and where numbers of 

 small herds are infested with lice, a plant of this character might be 

 constructed and used with profit to the cattlemen. Many of the cattle 

 that were dipped during the past year because of having been exposed 



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