DIPPING SHEEP
PRECAUTIONS TO BE TAKEN 1. Fast sheep several hours before dipping. 2. Don’t dip sheep immediately on ax-rival at the bath if they have been driven a long distance. Let them have a rest to cool down. 3. Don’t dip sheep in an arsenical dip if they have open wounds. 4. Don’t put sheep in a bath head first. 5. Endeavour to dip on a cool, fine day. 6. Prepare the bath strictly in accordance with the instructions on the package, and don’t guess quantities of dip or water. 7. Mix the dip thoroughly in. the proper proportions before added to the water in the bath, and well stir the mixture. 8. Let sheep drip for at least an hour before allowing access to herbage. 9. Before the second dipping clean the bath right out, and make up fresh dip half the strength of the first dip. 10. Thorough mixing is very important, as it has been the experience in many cases where loss has occured that those sheep which entered the bath first have died. This seems to indicate lack of thorough mixing. 11. In nearly all cases of loss where samples of the dip have been taken the dip has been found too strong on analysis.
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Southland Times, Issue 22993, 12 September 1936, Page 14
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210DIPPING SHEEP Southland Times, Issue 22993, 12 September 1936, Page 14
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