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Kōrero: Farm mechanisation

Spray dipping

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Trials of ‘spray dipping’ are recorded in this 1946 newsreel. Instead of using traditional dipping to kill external parasites, sheep are thoroughly soaked with a spray from above and below by a motor-operated sprayer. Spray dipping was widely used after the Second World War.

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Reference: Weekly Review 238. National Film Unit, 1946

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James Watson, Farm mechanisation – Steam, wind, water and oil, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/18395/spray-dipping (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā James Watson, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.