HOW PARASITES SPREAD IN SHEEP.

Colonist, Volume XLI, Issue 9097, 15 February 1898, Page 3

HOW PARASITES SPREAD IN SHEEP.

The following is an extract from a paper recently read by Mr Williams, the well known Stock Inspector of South Australia, before the Mount Gambier Branch of the Agricultural Bureau : — " An instance showing how rapidly lice will spread from infected to clean sheep, was recently brought under the writer's notice. An infected animal got into a paddock among twenty clean sheep, and in fifteen days all were infested. Another case, showing how welldipped sheep remained free from the attacks of the louse, came under notice at Millicent. where about ten long wool sheep that had been dipped in Cooper's Dip were in the local pound with badly infested sheep for over a fortnight, and remained quite clean, thus proving the advantage of using a dip the properties of which will remain in the wool and render it objectionable to all parasites." Remarks. — These lasting properties of Cooper's Dip, which alone render it by far the cheapest Sheep Dip in the world, will be fully realised by all who apply it tho- j roughly, according to tbe simple directions for use which are printed on each packet. In addition to the lasting properties of Cooper's Dip are its beneficial effects upon the skin, which re-act upon the wool. Showing that these are not mere statements the following facts may be quoted. At the last Royal Show (England) 99 out of a total of 145 sheep which secured prizes were Cooper-dipped. At the last Great Sydney Sheep Show there were 49 Cooper-dipped prize-takers against only 37 dipped in all other preparations put together. At the last Australian Sheep Breeders' Show, Melbourne, Cooper-dipped sheep took 57 prizes against 43 by all other proprietary Dips put together. The owners of one quarter of the sheep in existence upon the earth used Cooper's Dip last season. The special treatment and care bestowed in the manufacture of the original render it a wholly distinct preparation from its innumerable imitations — the aids of analysis notwithstanding. Not a single one of these imitations can compare with it, and each season adds a new failure to their list.