Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-11-26
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There has just been completed and
put into use on the Carpenter-Sanborn
$4,000 acre stock farm IN Brnle county.
s. d.. what may properly be termed a
cattle dip that for capacity. durability.
completeness and convenience likely
surpasses anything of the kind in the
west, says a correspondent of Breeders
Gazette. Experiment has proved that
dipping cattle similar TO the manner
OF dipping sheep is highly beneficial
as a preventive r cure for lice, scab,
Texas itch. mango or other vermin and
contagion In the herd. 1t may there
fore be presumed that a brief descrIp-
ton of the dip here referred TO will
be of interest to those engaged in the
cattle industry.
The VAT Is as feet long, s feet deep,
30 inches wide at the bottom and SO
inches wide at the top 1t is all walled
with stone, and the wall is covered
with a heavy coat of cement, as is also
the bottom. so there Is no leakage or
waste of the dip fluid. At the approach
OF the dip is a shoot. arranged that it
may also be used for branding and
~vaccinating. The exit is connected by
two dripping pans 10 by "a feet, with
a cement floor, and as the cattle are
put through the dip they are let stand
some twenty or thirty minutes on the
pans to drip off and the drippings run
back into the vat. The capacity of the
vat is 1850 gallons. A twelve horse
power boiler is used for heating the
dip preparation, which is usually heat
cd to a temperature of 115 to 100 II.
On IN average 1t takes from fifteen
to twenty seconds for an animal TO
swim through the vat, but $50 head
of medium sized cattle per hour is
about the working capacity. The dip
ping vat complete cost about $1,000,
and, although it is quite an expensive
one, yet 1t is certain to last for many
years. Messrs. Carpenter and Sanborn
have just got through dipping about
5000 head.
Value OF Type.
Cattlemen recognize two distinct
types of beef animals, with various
gradations between them. The one is d
compact, broad, closely coupled, early
maturing type, which can readily be
finished into prime beef when from
twenty-four to thirty months old. 1t is
a type which lacks in size and is often
not the most prolific breeder. The 9TH
er extreme in type is a larger. slightly
coarser boned, longer coupled animal
and n which Is rangy until it is from
thirty to forty months old. Animals OF
that type are not such easy keepers,
but they are growthy, vigorous. active
and prolific stick, which bring their
owners good returns. says Professor J..
Ell. Shepperd.
The two types are Dittel against
another in the show ring, and the
Judge must decide between them in
all fairness. 1t can easily happer that
a mature bull of the large, rangy. later
maturing type In general conformation
may win first place upon a given year
by reason of the judge finding that fin
comparing the conformation OF the in
dividuals in all points the rangy animal
Is the better. Three years later it is
just as likely to be the small. compact
type Of bull which will win the prize.
for while he lacks size he lacks less fin
size than the rangy bull did in quality
and o~yerbalances him on the average
according to the Judgment Of the ex-
pert who placed the ring.