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PERMANENT MAEKS ON SHEEP. 



forced into the skin inside the ear as far as is practicable 

 without causing hleeding, and when they are withdrawn thp 

 paint is rubbed into the punctures. Mr. Fleichmann — t- 



MAEKIN& IMPLEMENTS. 



whose Report on German Sheep* I am indebted for the 

 illustrations of this process — declares, as the result of his 

 own observation and experience, that it succeeds fnlly, and 

 that the ntimbers remain visible " in old. sheep which have 

 been marked for several years." 



I have seen imported sheep which had been perfectly 

 tattooed in this way ; 

 and it constitutes a 

 very beautiful mode 

 of marking for those 

 who have time and 

 taste for manipula- 

 tions demanding so much care. They must be performed 

 with great exactness to be successful. Mr. Geqrge Campbell, 

 of West Westminster, Vt., writes me that "he likes the 

 system very much whep the figures can be made plain ; that 

 he has been using gunpowder, but does not get all the figures 

 legible ; that he is now experimenting with India ink." 



A third mode of permanent marking is performed by 

 punching a hole an eighth of an inch in diameter through the 

 ear and inserting a lead livet of the size and form of the 

 ordinary No. 8 copper belt rivet, sold in hardware shops. 

 Like the belt rivet, it has a bur on which the opposite end 



INSrOB BAB UAItKS. 



• In United States Patent Office Beport for 1847. 



