LAMB-DIPPING.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 283, 7 December 1907, Page 5

LAMB-DIPPING.

A SPLENDID INVESTMENT.

No operation on a sheep farm gives a better return for labour and money expended than that of dipping lambs as soon as possible after the ewes are shorn. The benefits which the youngsters derive from a bath in a high-class non-poisonous dip are simply marvellous. Ticks and other parasites, which after, shearing find their way from the ewes on to the rougher fleeces pf the, lambs, and there luxuriate, kee£ their little hosts in constant torment and regular employment rubbing and scratching instead of putting on flesh as they ought, and would, if they had only peace to do so. Before putting lambs onto rape in particular, it is absolutely necessary that they should be dipped if their owner is to reap the full value of the food they consume. There are no points in growing rape or other valuable green feed to fatten ticks; yet, ridiculous as it may seem, that is just exactly what scores of farmers throughout New Zealand are doing to-day. They turn their lambs on to the feed (on the cultivation of which they have spent money, time and labour) in an undipped state and consequently with more or less ticks about them. The result is that these ticks keep, up a constant irritation, which of course means that the lambs are being deprived of a large amount of the benefits of the food they eat, and equally, as a matter of course, their owner is a heavy loser in hard cash as a consequence. The writer has liad the privilege of interviewing prominent lamb buyers throughout New Zealand, and the opinions nnanmiously expressed by these gentlemen are that if farmers would only dip their lambs after the ewes are shorn, ocr before being put on to rape, they would benefit quite Is to Is 6d per head. On a line of 1000 lambs this would mean antyhing from £50 to £75, perhaps more. The cost of dipping all these lambs with Quibell's Non-poisonona Dip—which is undoubtedly the best preparation for lamb dipping— would be from £1 5s to £1 10s. In other words, the man who dipped would benefit to the extent of from £60 to £70 on 1000 lambs over the man who would not take the trouble to do so.

The same authorities also very strongly condemn the use o! poisonous dips for lambs of tender age which are to be fed off quickly. Poisonous dips, they say, have a a tendency to give the lambs a check, and they means to make no progress at all for ten days or a fortnight. This seems so much good food wasted. After a bath in Quibell's Fluid Non-poisonous Dip they thrive every hour and utilise every ounee of food they eat until they are shipped to the freezing works. Order Quibell's Non-poisonous Liquid Dip for your I lambs now. You will never make & better investment.