DOES DIPPING IMPROVE THE WOOL?
* Mamy sheepfarmers believe that the sole benefit derived from dipping sheep is that of relieving them from their tormenting pests, but when a good dip is used this appears not to be its only beneficial property. A large Queensland squatter, whose sheep are seen on clean country, and are quite free from insect pests of any kind, last season tried the experiment, with the object of ascertaining whether dipping improved tiie wool, and thus dipped half his flock (in Cooper's dipping powder), leaving the other half undipped. Samples of both the dipped and undipped fleeces were afterwards sent to Messrs Jacomb, Son and Co. , the well-known wool salesmen, of Moorgate street, London, and under date the Ist November laEt they report :— Sample a (the Cooper-dipped portion) to be worth BJd per lb ; sample b (the undipped) they value at 7d, thus showing that dipping can increase the value of a clip by three halfpence per lb.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8409, 7 January 1899, Page 3
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161DOES DIPPING IMPROVE THE WOOL? Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8409, 7 January 1899, Page 3
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