SHEEP DIPS.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20499, 18 March 1932, Page 12

SHEEP DIPS.

EXPERIMENTS WANTED. FARMERS' DISCUSSION. The .Canterbury. A. and F. Association at its annual meeting last night discussed the necessity for using sheep dips and the lack of knowledge possessed by farmers as to the value ot certain dips. After various members had expressed their opinions it was decided, on the motion of Mr C Ensor, that the Massey and L " ic ° ln Ess»r permanently clean from Mr Jas. Deans said that it sneep were fed properly they would rid tliemvyeie ieu P "Everyone knows StVLfl Sep i. «b'w a -* "A .4 mSffiod. of tending that it involved cruelty to th " We 1 have had too much tick in the Dominion," said Mr W. H. Nicholson "It would be a good thing ri we could demise Sie means of dealing with the PB Mr W K. McAlpine said that there was more in the question than was apparent. He believed it would be a good move for the Colleges to carry out experiments with dips in order to ascertain which was the most effective. The retiring president (Mr L. K. CMacfarlane) said that the Association tad had the matter m hand for some considerable time. In -view of the present financial posi tio.i he did not want to put the Colleges to any ex* pense in dealing with the pest. great difficulty in dealing with ticks was that no one seemed to know where the tick lived when it left a-shepps body. He always kept his own shed scrupulously clean, and by that means nad eliminated the pest from among his own flock. Mr Ensor said that he was certain that a dir> could be found to eradicate the eggs of the tick if sufficient experiments were carried out.