SHEEP TIOK.' Some shpep-owners believe tick can live away from sheep, but this is a mistaken idea, says the Victorian Department of Agriculture. Tick isolated dio very soon, as experiments by Dr. Sweet and Messrs. goddon and Hill, of the University Veterinary School show. Most of them were doad W'ithm four ..days. Only 17 out of 151 .weue i a-live-aftipr seyenj daye, amli the last .died within oleypn days. "The practical lesson to be derived," says Mr. .Robertson, "is that when an owner dips all his sheep m aix cflicient dipping mixture, it is, not difficuJt to dean his whole nock. As the presence pf on sheep depreciates the value of wool and carcase about 2/6 per head, (■dipping ifl * P^JWg proposition." i j But it must be a dup of unquestipnable efficiency— such as Quibell's Ponder Dip 1 — the fafprifce of all supp&sefq.l sheepow:ners. Order to-day. Sole agieni« iij. Australasia, Dalgety and Co., Ltd,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14838, 15 February 1919, Page 5
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