1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class IX.: Robert M. Rome
From Graces Guide
152. ROME, ROBERT M., Langholm, Dumfries — Designer and Manufacturer.
Sheep-dipping machine, for applying sheep-washing compositions, to improve the wool and destroy vermin in sheep.
It consists of a trough, in which the sheep are dipped, and a platform forming the body of the carriage for them to stand on, while the superfluous liquid drips off them and flows back into the trough. With this machine, three men can dip or wash 800 sheep in a day.
[It has become a common practice thus to dip half-grown lambs in a solution of corrosive sublimate, which poisons the ticks that burrow in the skin without injury to the animals themselves.— Ph. P.]
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