THE NORTH-WESTEKK DISTRICT. 



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deal of injurious crowding among the sheep. From pen 5, 

 pens 7 and 8 are filled, and as the sheep are crowded to 

 the narrow part of the pen, a man takes one by one and 

 drops them into the vat 9. The sheep is completely im- 

 mersed in the dip, and is guided by a shepherd by means of a 

 crook back and forth, so as to force it to remain until the wool 

 is saturated with the medicated fluid. When the sheep has 

 been guided up to the bar 10, it is pushed completely under 

 the surface and under the bar, when it reaches a sloping barred 

 floor, 11, up which it passes on to the draining floor 12. The 

 work thus proceeds until this floor is filled, when the sheep are 



. 94. A SECOND METHOD OP SHEEP DIPPING. 



passed into the next one, 13. The floors of these pens slope a 

 little so as to carry the drip from the wool back into the vats and 

 prevent waste. The temperature of the liquid in the vats is 

 kept up by means of a supply in a boiler near by, from which 

 hot liquor is dipped as it may be required. When pen 13 is 

 filled, the sheep are then dry and are turned loose through the 

 gate into the open ground. The pens on either side of the lane, 

 2, are intended for lambs, which are able to escape through the 

 bars of the fence. 



The other plan (fig. 94) consists of two circular fences, the 

 space enclosed between them being divided into pens by cross 

 fences and gates. The entrance gate A, opens from a long ta- 

 pering lane, into which the sheep can be easily driven from a 

 large enclosure outside. It opens towards B. The gate C, being 



