CHEAP DIPS & SHEEP DIPS.

Colonist, Volume XLI, Issue 9098, 16 February 1898, Page 3

CHEAP DIPS & SHEEP DIPS.

The cost of an artiole depends upon tbe setvioe you get from it, quite &s much as upon tbe price you pay for it, Whilst this consideration is usually bei't in view in buying aitiolea in oommon use, yet it ia a ; BiDgukr fact that it is often ignored inj purchasing bheep Dips. Buje/s frequeit'y oontent themselves with simply ascertaining the price of a Dip per 1 00 cr lOcO gallons, and whether it will kill the insects. Now there is soa:c3ly a Dip in tbe market which, if properly oted, will not destroy those ir sect* that happen to exist in the fleece at the time of dipping, but the I destruction of these is only the firet duty of a Sheep Dip, the real criterion of its i value being the length oi time it will keep shesp clean. The lasting propsrties ot Dip 3 ore of the utmost importance, even the cost and trouble of having to dip again are mere trifles when compared with the loss sustained by allowing your sfrep to beoome seriousy re- infested ; this loss, each month alone, would exceed the ocst of the dearest Dip in tha market several times over, yet it is frequently end unknowingly incurred by those Sheep Farmers who are mainly guided by tho firßt oost of a Sheep Dip at so tuueh per head, Oculd they but see the pounds they thus lose as plainly as they do (he pennies they apparently save, tbe lasting effeots of a Dip would be recognised as of greater importance than a mere percentage diff renoe in invoice prices, It is the unrivalled iastiog properties of Cooper's Dip which maioly recommend it to the owners of one-fourth of the sheep in existence, and who annually ass i*. Experience has taught them that it ia really the cheapest dip, hecce their overwhelming preference for it. Though, by meina of analyei?, scores of attempts to bring out imitations of Cooper's I ponder have been made during the last | thirty years, yet being differently treated in ! manufacture, these invariably result in enliiely different preparations from the original, not one will be foand to compare with it in those well known characteristics of Cooper's Dipping Powder.