Interesting to Farmers.

Otago Witness, 14 December 1893, Page 8

Interesting to Farmers.

Kaikoha, Havre's Bay, DT7*r, P ,n -r November 22, 1893. &AX blß,— Having been a sheepbreeder many years, I have had a lot to do with dips. In order to find out the best dip for my sheep I have tried about all, and I only state what I find when I say that COOPER'S DIPPING POWDER is a long way the best. Wishing to do the work as cheaply as I could I have tried arsenic, and to be sure of using ifc the best way I have got a practical chemist, used to the work, to come and prepare it. The results showed it would not compare with Cooper's, for arsenic most certainly makes the wool dry and light, whilst Cooper's Dip, if used as I use it, always leaves the wool in such a splendid condition that, if arsenic cost nothing and was no trouble to prepare, it would be a far dearer dip than Cooper's. After allowing -for mine being fine sheep, and the wool naturally of good kind, I am certain that the effects%f Cooper's Dip pays one back its cost a good many times over.

For keeping the sheep free from ticks and lice, a better dip could not be wished for. Not in all my flock do I ever find a single insect of any kind ; whilst before I used Cooper's regularly, they were a frequent nuisance. I was so struck with this that once I mixed 30 very lousy sheep with 300 Cooper-dipped ewes, and carefully examining them three months after, I found that not one of the dipped ewes had a single insect on her.

The way I always get such splendid results from Cooper's ia by using it thus :— I well mix each packet with water in old oil cans separately about six hours before use, and having several of these ready saves a lot oE time. Just before I pour it into the bath I give each can another good stir, and afterwards keeping the bath properly stirred from the bottom, and keeping the sheep in long enough, I always gob exactly the same splendid results. If anybody has not got the same satisfaction from Cooper's, it is because it is not used right, for I have never found auy difference since I handled it this way. This is what I have found after many years' use, and now ticks, lice, nor any other insects ever bother me a single moment, and the wool regularly comes out at the shcariug beautifully clean, and always in the same splendid condition. I am now so convinced that, if used properly, Cooper's Powder is the best dip both for sheep and wool, that nothing would persuade me to use auy other. This is simply what I find, and if others will do the thing right they will find as I do — the greatest satisfaction. Yours truly, 14d JAMES COLLINS.