SHEEP DIP TRIAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 8123, 21 March 1887, Page 2

SHEEP DIP TRIAL.

TO THE EDITOB, Sib, —Kindly allow us space to disclaim any connection with the so-called trial of sheep-dip at Amberley on Monday last. Judging from your published report, your correspondent could not have been aware or must have wilfully ignored that a week previously when the said trial was to have been held we distributed circulars (as per enclosure) to the above effect. We (Messrs Cooper’s agents) were not present as inferred, nor by our consent represented, and though we can hardly prevent agents for other sheep-dips using Cooper’s dip at exhibitions of their own, we most certainly object to such proceedings being misrepresented and dignified by the name of a trial, and we should in no way recognise the results as such, whether favourable or the reverse. We are not endeavouring to gain a cheap advertisement, but we might as weU mention that we have repeatedly tried to induce the Canterbury A. and P. Association to hold an impartial and really exhaustive trial of all sheep dips, whose agents are willing to compete and pay their proportion of expenses, even extending their trial further than the Hawkes Bay A. and F. Association did, i.e., by dipping now, and keeping some of each lot of sheep under their charge right up to shearing time. So far, we have failed in our efforts in this direction, but we hope that the sheep farmers, whose interest the Association no doubt studies, and who are interested in a different way, will themselves accomplish this desirable object, which would give them the opportunity of forming a reliable opinion on the merits of all the dips, without the expense and bother of personally testing them. Afterwards they need only consider the question of the equality of the material annually supplied.—We are, &c., LAKE & EVANS, Agents for Cooper’s Sheep Dip.