Identifier: boytravellersina00knox (find matches)
Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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p-tubs, P and Q, andspare-water tub, B. The soap-tubs are also fitted with steam-pipes, for the purpose ofboiling their contents. *9is a donkey-engine placed over a well, from whence, driven bya continuation of steam-pipes from both boilers, it draws water for showering through aflexible hose the dirty sheep in the receiving yard, t, for transmission through the pipe nof water to drinking-troughs for the washed sheep in the batten yards, filling up thepump by branch pipes, which is often necessary, and for various other purposes. The receiving yards having been filled with sheep, the water in, and the tanksbrought up to the required temperature by means of the steam-pipes, and the soaking-tankcharged with the prescribed proportion of dissolved soap, etc., the pump is set to work tofill the spouting tank and reservoirs underneath into which the spouts discharge. Theportcullis gate, W, is then lifted, and from eight to ten sheep are sent down the inclined WASHING SHEEP BY MACHINERY. 395
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396 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. shoot, X, into the soaking-tank, when they are manipulated by men on either side, andallowed to swim for four or five minutes. Hence they pass on to the rinsing stage, Y;again down a short incline to the stage, Z; from thence, lastly, they are handed to thespouters. By these they are rolled and turned under the knife-like jet of water for twominutes, when they swim out to the inclined landing-stage as white as snow. When the water in the soaking-tank becomes overcharged with dirt, by a simple ar-rangement it can be emptied and refilled with clean hot water from the square tank, inwhich a constant supply is kept up, in eight or ten minutes. From twelve hundred totwo thousand sheep are washed daily. Frank and Fred learned many other things about sheep-farming inAustraUa, but they made no further notes on the subject, and there-fore we will drop it. At any rate, they did not conclude to go into thebusiness when they learned of its hazards and discom

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