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ping floor should be inclosed by fence. Fig. "5" is a panel 

 fence fourteen feet long placed across the center of the drip- 

 ping floor. Two of the bottom boards of the fence of the drip- 

 per on the side next to the vat should be cut out the width 

 of the vat, and a small gate (fig. 6) fastened to the division 

 panel so that it can be swung to either side of the vat, that 

 when one part of the dripper is filled with sheep this gate- 

 can be swung around, closing the pen that the sheep are in 

 and leaving the other side open for the sheep to go in. By 



HERDWICK RAM. 



the time this last half of the dripper is filled with sheep 

 the first lot will be ready to go out, and continue in like man- 

 ner until dripping is finished. Fig. "44" are gates to let 

 the sheep out of the dripper. Fig. "8" is the yard for the 

 sheep before the dipping is commenced. It should be 

 built so as to make a small, three-cornered pen (fig. 9) next 

 to the vat, large enough to hold fifty or seventy-five sheep 

 which would be handy to the vat and easy to catch. This 

 yard should be made penitentiary tight and strong so that 

 it is impossible for any sheep to escape undipped. Should a 

 single sheep get out and get with those already dipped, 

 unnoticed, that had a single living female acarus on it, it 

 would in a short time infect the whole flock: hence the im- 

 portance of thoroughness from beginning to end. Now, 

 with the above arrangements and the dip hot, you are ready 



