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therefore, a description of the dipping plant which won for Mr. 

 John H. Seely, of Mount Pleasant, Utah, the first prize offered 

 by the American Sheep Breeder for a description of a plant of 

 that kind will be entirely in place. Of this plant Mr. Seely says: 

 "In connection with your dipping apparatus prize I take the 

 pleasure to enclose you hereby a sketch of my separating and dip- 

 ping corral. Permit me to state by way of explanation that the 

 plant is situated near a small creek but below its level on such a 

 slope that the drainage can never get into the water course. A, 

 B and C are three large corrals with a total capacity of about 

 10,000 sheep. B is the main receiving corral. The separating 



Plan of Mr. Seely's Dipping Plant. 



chute M can be used by letting the sheep directly into the pen 

 F or else from K through J and G or I and H. In dipping, the 

 sheep are worked from B into the tapering branch pen K until it 

 is filled, when the wide double gates that separate K and B are 

 closed and the sheep forced down to the mouth of the chute, L. 

 This can be done through pens I and H or J and G, as the arrange- 

 ment of the gates at T is such that it permits the connection or 

 shutting off of any or all pens adjoining it. We find this a great 

 help in facilitating the work as either of the two sets- of pens can 

 be used and the sheep left in the others may serve as decoys. 

 The chute R L has a little switch gate at L which is used by gath- 



