1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class IX.: William Wallace Fyfe
41A. FYFE, WILLIAM WALLACE, 30 Hamilton Place, Edinburgh — Inventor.
Syphon apparatus, for the washing of sheep, and for improving the growth of wool by the copious application of pure water.
[Though employed in a rude form in the case of Canadian sheep or store farming, the use of the syphon in this country is unknown in sheep-washing, a process which is performed either by "leaping" or "rough-handling" the animals, to their great injury and that of the wool. There is reason to believe that the free application of water, promoted by the use of this apparatus, will improve the woolly fibre, by precluding irregular growth, and the formation of knots or joints, besides conducing to the health of the sheep. A prejudice exists against giving water to sheep, yet the necessity of washing is admitted.]