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Kōrero: Sheep farming

Using a swim dip, 1906

Using a swim dip, 1906

These sheep are being put through a swim dip to control external parasites such as sheep keds and lice. The sheep are pushed up the race (behind the men) and forced into the dip. As they make their way along the dip, they are pushed completely under the dipping mixture to kill all the parasites.

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Hugh Stringleman rāua ko Robert Peden, Sheep farming – The seasonal round, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/16681/using-a-swim-dip-1906 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Hugh Stringleman rāua ko Robert Peden, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009, updated 1 March 2015.