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early summer, and further on in the season if occasion requires, in a 

 decoction of tobacco and sulphur— four pounds of plug tobacco and 

 one pound of flowers of sulphur to twenty gallons of water, brought 

 to a temperature of 120°. This operation of dipping is shown in 

 Fig. 1183. Of course, in the process on a very large farm, a much 

 more capacious tank should be used. 



Fie. 1184. — Arrangement lor Washing Sheep. 



Washing and Shearing. 



A clear, running stream, with gravelly bottom, is the most de- 

 sirable in which to wash sheep, and soft water is preferable to hard. 

 The man who is to do the washing enters the stream and receives 

 the sheep from the drivers, plunging them' two or three times be- 

 neath the surface. , The pulling of the wool of the sheep should be 

 avoided in handling them. 



Another plan of washing sheep is shown in Fig. 1184, for which 



