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a bath involves, for upon this basis, to dip 10,000 sheep in a lime 
and sulphur bath, Mr. Gordon would need at least 3,000 gallons of 
boiling water to make the bath of the heat he says is imperatively 
necessary, and there must be constant additions of hot water or special 
heating arrangements to maintain that temperature. 
“ Then with regard to the superior protective properties claimed 
for lime and sulphur. Mr. Gordon suggests that ‘ one thorough dress- 
ing effects a complete cure,’ but the Government directions he quotes 
direct three separate dippings ; and inasmuch as we never recommend 
more than two dippings with our preparation, we fail to see the 
superiority of lime and sulphur over our dip. 
“ In conclusion, we are quite willing to grant to Mr. Gordon’s 
opinions all the weight which his ability and position properly attach 
to them, but as against his opinions we are surely entitled to set the 
very positive opinions of thousands of sheep-owners of practical 
experience— in some cases of from 40 to 50 years — who use our dip 
with perfect satisfaction. Our sales increase largely every year, 
and to go no further than to compare those of 1891 with those of 
the previous year, our accountants, Messrs. Turquands, Youngs & 
Co., have certified an increase, in that one year alone, of 1,140,170 
packets, or over 890 tons. 
“ Surely, with this vast body of evidence of practical men in 
favour of our dip, it would be absurd and inconsistent with these 
times of progress to go back to the crude, cumbersome, and objec- 
tionable remedy of lime and sulphur, even if recommended by Mr. 
Gordon.” 
CUTTING BEECH WOODS. 
The recent case of Dashwood v, Magniac,* important ns it is to 
lawyers, would seem to be no less significant to the owners of 
estates upon which beech trees grow, especially to the owners of 
such estates in Buckinghamshire, for by the custom — that is, 
legal custom — of that county beech trees of twenty years’ growth 
and upwards are legally timber. Generally speaking, oak, ash, and 
elm of twenty years’ growth and upwards are the only “ timber ” 
trees known to the law of England, but by custom other trees of 
that age are timber in different localities : thus in Bucks, and in 
certain parishes in Hants, Beds, Surrey, and Gloucestershire, beech 
is ; in Berks, birch is ; and in a parish in Hants the willow is. 
The question at issue in the case was shortly this : Can the tenant 
for life of an estate who is impeachable for waste cut the beech 
woods on that estate in the usual course of management of the estate, 
sell them, and retain the proceeds for his own use and benefit 1 It 
was admitted that he can do so in localities where beech is not 
timber — e.g. in Oxfordshire, in which county a small part of the 
' Reported in the Laie Reports for 1891, vol. iii. Chancery, p. 306. 
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