74 Dipping. 



Some New Zealand flock owners consider it a bene- 

 ficial thing to dip their ewes and lambs twice in the 

 year. First, with "a non-poisonous or carbolic prepara- 

 tion, soon after shearing, when the wool is short. The 

 lambs, which are dipped at the same time, should be 

 forward enough to look after themselves, in case their 

 mothers, after the ablution, are inclined to disown them. 

 By the adoption of this method, the lambs are saved 

 from the ticks which migrate to them from their mothers 

 at the shearing, and the latter are also kept clean for two 

 or three months, at the end of which period the lambs 

 are strong enough to be again dipped with the ewes in 

 the more efficacious poisonous preparation, possessing 

 more lasting properties than the non-poisonous dip, for 

 the reason that by its presence in the fleece the newly- 

 hatched ticks, as they issue from the eggs, sicken and 

 die. Only poisonous dips possess these protecting and 

 lasting properties. This method of dipping ewes and 

 lambs at the shearing, and again subsequently, obviates 

 two losses to sheep owners. It saves the lambs at a 

 sensitive age from attacks of insects, and the hoggets 

 from the annoyances of ticks. 



