SHEEP-WASHING.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3025, 6 April 1867, Page 6

SHEEP-WASHING.

The following, from the Australasian, will give an idea of the new method of sheep-washing Adopted by some of the Victorian wool-growers :—": — " Let two parallel yards be made, long and narrow, with battened floors. Let a tank be made in shape of a long narrow cylinder, say ten feet high and one foot in diameter, the lower end of which shall be elevated above the yards, any twelve to fifteen feet ; this tank may be kept full by means of a self-acting hydraulic ram. Let one or two long flexible hose be inserted ia the bottom of the tank, and a platform be made stretching along the centre of the yards, say from five to six feet above them. By means of a spreader at the end of each hose a light shower can be thrown on the sheep, so as to moisten the tips without chilling the sheep by reaching the skin. By this means the dirt is as much softened as if the sheep was swum through water, without being chilled, as they must be thrown bodily into the water. If the yards be sufficiently long, an hour will elapse before the first moistened sheep arrive at the hot water (of course, the sheep that go through first in the morning should be watered an hour previous to beginning). The sides of the yard should be paled six feet high, to prevent cold winds from blowing on the sheep. The hot-water tank should be hid from view of the sheep by paling so as to get them easily into the catching yard, in which should be an inclined plane, on which the sheep are placed singly, and slip in as required. The tank itself should be long and narrow, say thirty inches wide by forty feel; long. It should be divided in two by spars along its length, so as to allow of only one sheep passing along at a time, for which purpose fifteen inches is quite sufficient. If wider, sheep can turn . One side is unused, but is useful in allowing a larger volume of water in the tank than if it were actually only fifteen inches wide. The tank is kept full by one line of sheep, and as it shallows gradually the sheep drain at the end. Two minutes' swimming (in scour to be described) is sufficient. At the end of the hot-water tank is a slide downwards, at the top of which a man stands to regulate the supply. When a sheep is wanted, he allows one of those that are pressing forward to get out of the hot water, to pass on to the slide, down which it must go when once on. At the bottom of the slide a man stops the sheep from going into the boz-spout until the previous occupant has been passed on, when he instantly passes in it without difficulty. The boxspout is an archway three feet long by fifteen inches wide, with jets of water having a perpendicular pressure of six feet playing through slits one-twelfth of an inch wide on the whole length of the sheep along the back and sides, nine on each side of the centre. The sheep stands on a giated floor and is held by the side of the neck, with its nose out of the shower, by a man at the front of the archway. Twenty seconds under this concentrated action is sufficient to dash out the scour of the hot-water tank. This dirty water falls through the grated floor, and escapes altogether. The man holding the sheep then touches a spring, when the front end of the floor (which works on an axis like a tip) falls, and precipitates the sheep into % narrow tank of perfectly pure water. This tank, being only fifteen inches wide, the sheep must swim forward in it, and is thus compelled to swim up to the hand of one of the men at the first spout ; when it comes, he lets go the sheep he has been handling, which must swim to the second spout, the first man at which lets go the sheep he has in hand, and which is then finished. The construction of these spouts, being an entirely new feature, requires description."

Flood William, Grafton Road, near Bowling Green, household, Grafton Road, near Bowling Green, in hit occupation ; declared before Henry Vernon Pricker Walter, Parnell, household, dwelling, Parnell, fronting Manukau Road, opposite Catholic Church ; declared before Robert Hampton Freeman Thomas, Parnell, household, at the back of Whitaon's Brewery, dwelling ; attested by A. H. Hunter Gilbert Henry, Grafton Road, freehold, No. 3 allotment, Farnell Road; declared before James Harris Gilding George Herbert;, Hobson Park, leasehold, Hobson Park, premises in his occupation ; declared before A. H. Hunter Harris James, Shortland Crescent, leaseholder, Hobson Park, lots 9, 23, and 24, subdivision of allotments 35A and 36a of section 3, suburbs of Auckland, Parish of Waitemata, County of Eden ; declared before James Baber, J.P. Hill Shirley Whitfield, Parnell, leasehold, near Grammar School, Cathedral trust property, premises in his occupation ; deolared before Robert Lusk Horton James, Cheshire-street, household, Cheshire, street, dwelling ; declared before William J. Speight Johnson Benjamin, Hobson Park, leasehold, Hobson Park, premises in his occupation : attested by A. H. Hunter Kenny Henry Eyre, Parnell, leasehold, part of Mrs Churton's property, Parnell, dwelling-house and premises in his occupation : declared before James Griffin, J.P. Linn James, Kyber Pass Road, freehold, Kyber Pass Road, allotment 33x100 feet, building* erected thereon ; attested by W. Griffith Longdill Pynson Wilmot, Rutland Home, household, Ratland-atreefc, dwelling: declared before H. C.BalneaTis,J.P. Mahoney James, Devonport-streefc, household, Parnell, dwelling in my occupation ; declared before John Copland Marks Hannibal, Grafton Road, freehold, Grafton Road, house and allotment ; declared before John Copland '" Martin Thomas, St. George's Bay Road, household, St. George's Bay Road, dwelling ; attested by A. H. Hunter Meaoham Charles, St. George's Bay, freehold, Sub. No. 2 of lots 60 and 70 of section No. 1, suburbs of Auckland ; declared before George Slater Middleton James, Conquest Place, freehold, Conqueit Place ; declared before Henry Vernon MoCormick Hugh, Parnell, household, Parnell, dwelling ; declared before Thomas S. Waters McGregor William, Cracroft-street, household, house in Cracroft-street in my occupation j declared before Henry Vernon McKay Roderick, Rutland Road, freehold, part of allotment 69, section 1, Suburbs of Auckland ; declared before Thomas S. Waters Naylor William Henry, St. George's Bay Road, freehold, St. George's Bay Road, premises in his occupation ; declared before A. H. Hunter Nesbitt Robert, Parnell, freehold, lot 14, Newmarket, section 2, subdivided into lots and sections of allotments 39 and 40, section 3, suburbs of Auckland ; declared before Benjamin E. Turner North William, Hobson Park, household, Hobson Park, Hunter's Building, dwelling; attested by A. H. Hunter OgiWie John, Mount Eden, freehold, allotment No. 47, being part of allotments Nos. 4, 5, and part of 3, section No. 3, suburbs of Auckland ; declared before J. W. Diddams Parke Joseph, Parnell, household, Hobson's Park, in his occupation ; declared before William Bagmall. Pee John, Parnell, leasehold, allotment and shop in his occupation ; declared before A. H. Hunter Priestly George Philip, Bath-street, household, Bath-street, dwelling ; declared before George Edward Ireland Robb James, Parnell Road, household, Hobson Park, dwelling; declared before A. H. Hunter Recce George, Manukau Road, household, Manukau Road, dwelling ; declared before Reuben Elley Ryan Michael, St. George's Bay Road, household, St. George's Road, dwelling; attested by A. H. Hunter Sander Charles William, Hobson Park, leasehold, Hobson Park, store in his occupation; declared before A. H. Hunter Slater George, Grafton Road, Auckland, freehold, Skiddaw Cottage, Grafton Road, in his occupation; declared before Charles Meacham Somervell James Marshall, Hobson Park, leasehold, Hobson Park, premises in his occupation; declared before A. H. Hunter Taylor Charles John, Upper Queen-street, freehold, part of allotment 30, section 14, suburbs of Auckland ; declared before Henry Vernon Taylor Richard, St. Stephen's Cottage, houshold, St. Stephen's Cottage, dwelling ; deolared before Henry Vernon Turton Henry Hanson, St. George's Bay, freehold, St. George's Buy Road, premises in his occupation ; declared before Robert Graham, J.P. Tatty William, Brighton Road, household, Brighton Road, in my occupation ; declared before Charles Pike Walker John, Sjmonds-street, freehold, Seafield Road, lot 77, section 4; attested by William Griffin Warburton George, Kyber Pass Road, leasehold, cottage and 2 acres adjoining the Captain Cook Hotel, known as Warburton's Nursery ; attested by J. W. Carter Wardell Benjamin, Hobson Park, leasehold, Hobson Park ; premises in his occupation, attested by A. H. Hunter Winks Jonathan, Parnell, household, Manukau Road, Parnell, dwelling; declared before Henry Vernon,

HENRY COLIN BALNEAVIS, Registration. Officer. Sheriff's Office, Auckland, April, 1867.