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New Zealand Mail, 30 December 1892, Page 6

WILKINS AND FIELD Beg to call the attention of Station Managers and Sheep Owners to OR BRAND (PATENTED.) (1.) It is simple, and can be applied either to the Ear or Body, thus enabling an owner to identify his Sheep at any time of e^ rfi ~. tf th of Pure Bred, or Pedigree Stock, it has no equal. (fj £ act P s rl L at | check f to Mark showing thrown the skin after the shetp have ' Any one day's notice. Extra adjustable discs or brands (which can be screwed on and off at will, in place of the ordinary one nsed for osual marking por,> r 8 ..,.; , ~ . tv . f This Tattoo Marker is becoming a great success, several large sheep owners in thirty thousand sheep have all been marked with it on the BKisKET-one man being able to mark iwo iliousancl sneen pei day it yarned up. Theinoded operation k as follows :-The sheep are held up same position as in shearing and the person who operates dips a small sponge, which is fastenedto the end of a p ece of stick say a foot long, into a small tin holding the dye in a liqu.d state; this sponge holds enough dye to mark Bor » -heen wi hout the He then drives the pins on the disc into each sheep in turn ; they are then let go and fresh sheep caught by , holdimr Sheep P werepublicly examined the other day in Canterbury that had been branded three months ago, and the mark w as perfect, now ring as one contfnuous brand, Ld not in pricked dots as on the day they were first marked Price including enough dye to mark 500 sheep, 15s. E'itherrld! blue, or black dye can be supplied at 6s per Jib tin, containing enough dye to mark, say zOO sheep. WILKINS AND FIELD, Agents, Manners-street, Wellington.