4 Wyoming Experiment Station. 



ATTITUDE OF MANUFACTURER. 



In the big woolen mills the manufacturer of cloth takes 

 no chances with paint brands. The fleeces are worked over 

 by hand labor and the brands clipped off. Brands that will 

 scour and brands that will not are treated alike. This is an 

 exceedingly costly operation and is necessitated only by the 

 too liberal use of undesirable paints. If all wool grower 

 would use a scourable paint the labor would be eliminated 

 and the saving could be added to the price of wool. 



In order to ascertain the comparative efficiency, durability 

 and scouring out qualities of different paints on the market, 

 the following tests were made: 



PLATE I. 



This cut shows the system of marking employed so that all brands 

 would be subjected to similar treatment. Note that, for instance, Paint 

 No. 4 appears on right side of one sheep and on right shoulder of next. 

 This picture was taken immediately after branding. The sheep were 

 dipped July 20th, and were branded five days later. 



OUTLINE OF EXPERIMENTS. 



Six different paints were used, the names or descriptions 

 and numbers of which follow : 



1. Common Paint, i. e., Venetian red, linseed oil and 

 turpentine. 



2. Kemp's Australian Sheep Branding Fluid. 



