SHOWER-SPRAYING SHEEP.
AN AMERICAN INVENTION
2700 EWES WITH LAMBS IN
40 MINUTES,
A recent issue of the National Wool Grower contains a description of a new sheep-spraying plant, recently erected on the Pacific Creek ranch, Wyoming ? U.S.A. It is what is known as the Findlay patent, and diffffers in essential details from shower plants tried in Australia. These are primarily roof showers, while the American patent seems to give the sheep a regular needle bath. To pens, each large enough to hold 250 sheep ? are built side by side, with draining pens, etc., adjoining. These are filled alternately, which enables the spraying to be carried on without a break. Each pen is provided with 66 nozzles of special construction set not only in the roof, but along the sides, bottoms, and ends. The dipping fluid is pumped through the nozzles by a 10 h.p. engine driving a 3in. centrifugal highpressure pump, and a whirling needle spraying effect is obtained over the whole of the bodies of the sheep treated. It is claimed that the process is safe and speedy. Under test 2700 ewes, with their lambs, were put through in 40 minutes, and usually two and a-half to three minutes is sufficient time to do a pen. An examination by experts showed that •sheep treated by the process were "efficiently" dipped.
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Northern Advocate, 20 December 1919, Page 6
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