CHEAP DIPS & SHEEP DIPS

Colonist, Volume XLI, Issue 9108, 28 February 1898, Page 3

CHEAP DIPS & SHEEP DIPS

The cost of an artiole depends upon the service you get from it, quite bs touch as upon the price you pay for it. Whist this consideration is usually kept in view in buying articles in common use, yet it is a singular fact that it is often ignored in purchasing Sheep Dips. Bo j era frequently content themselves with simply ascertaining the price of a Dip per 100 or 10 0 gallons, and whether it will kiH the insects. Now there is eoa'cely a Dip in the market whioh, if properly need, will not destroy those inseot^ that happen to exist in the fleece at the time of dipping, but (he destruction of these is only the first duty of a Sheep Dip, the real criterion of its value being the length of time it will keep sheep clean. The lasting properties ot Dips are of the utmost importance, even the oost and trouble ot having to dip again are mere trifles when compared with the loss sustained by allowing yt)or eh<ep to become seriously re-infested; (his loss, each month alone, would exceed the oost of the dearest

Lit is frequently and unknowingly incurred by thoee Sheep Farmers who are mainly guided b the first ooßt of a Sheep Dip at so v ueh per head, Ocu'd they bat see 'be pounds they thus lose as plainly aB they do the pennies they apparently save, the laet in? efjeo's of a Dip would le r- c gr.isad as >,i gra* .r imp. r.ance than a mere percentage d ffjrence in invoios prices, I is the unrivalled lasting properties cf Cooper's Dip which mainly recommend i to the owners of one-fourth of the sheep in existence, end who ancually ess i . Experience has taught them that it is really the cheapest dip, hence their overwhelming preference for it. 1 hough, by means of analyei*, scores of attempts to biing oat imita ions of Cooper's powder have been mads daring the last thirty years, yet being differently treated in mannfaoture, these invariably result in enitely different preparations from the original, not one will be foand to compare with it in thoso well known characteristics of Ocoper'd Dipping Powder.