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forced into the skin inside the ear as far as is practicable 

 without causing bleeding, and when they are withdrawn the 

 paint is rubbed into the punctures. Mr. Fleichmann t- 



MARKING IMPLEMENTS. 



whose Report on German Sheep* I am indebted for the 

 illustrations of this process declares, as the result of his 

 own observation and experience, that it succeeds fully, and 

 that the numbers remain visible " in old sheep which have 

 been marked for several years." 



I have seen imported sheep which had been perfectly 

 tattooed in this way; 

 and it constitutes a 

 very beautiful mode 

 of marking for those 

 who have time and 



taste for manipula- INSIDE EAB MABKS. 



tions demanding so much care. They must be performed 

 with great exactness to be successful. Mr. George Campbell, 

 of West Westminster, Vt., writes me that u he likes the 

 system very much when the figures can be made plain ; that 

 he has been using gunpowder, but does not get all the figures 

 legible ; that he is now experimenting with India ink." 



A third mode of permanent marking is performed by 

 punching a hole an eighth of an inch in diameter through the 

 ear and inserting a lead rivet of the size and form of the 

 ordinary No. 8 copper belt rivet, sold in hardware shops. 

 Like the belt rivet, it has a bur on which the opposite end 



* In United States Patent Office Report for 1847. 



