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Show SHEEP SHIPMENTS UNUSUALLY HEAVY; BIO GARS FROM UTAH-WILL GO OUT At least six hundred tar of Ptah shrcp, fattened during the earl winter win-ter on beet pulp and In feed lot, will go from the state to the market of California and Missouri river point. ThU I the forecast of A. A. Calllster secretary of tho state hoard of sheep commissioner. Itcporl received from various point In' the state h Ciilllstcr In the last fifw da) place the numher of sheep Ip feed lot, he estlmatiH, at about a hundred and fifty fif-ty IhouAind head This I n larger number hau hu len hold off the winter range hijrmer )ear. In Hanpele nnirKirvier counties alone, report re-port show, there uro approximately sev ent) -five thoUMiud head In feed lot. The recent snow, which wa fiilrl) general all over the state, will bo a big benefit to the shetp on the winter win-ter range, according to the commissioner commis-sioner "Until the snow came tho sheep were huddled In bundle near the water hole. Now they tan scatter scat-ter out over the desert and eat tho snow or drink the water formed by melted snow In the hollow. In the summer sheep live In the high thu-beted thu-beted land and foothills, but In tho winter they go on winter range the dererts, where there I little deep snow and where It I comparatively warm." A to the condition of wlnlir range Calllster wi most or them are good, although he has heard rumor that the desert In Tooele county Is not so good a It might he. Pine wlntir range In Heaver county In the vleinlt) or Mllford, I reported by J. W John-sou John-sou or Heaver The sheep commissioner commis-sioner I optimistic concerning the condition sheep will be In next spring when they come from the range. Dipping for tick wa dune thoroughly thor-oughly till ear," ho wild, "and I he-lb he-lb ve tho sheep will come clean noxt spring I.asl spring they were prett) much Infected with the tick, but I believe we havo got rid of them to a large extent There I not n spot of Mcahlc In Utah at present that we know or and I bellove this pest has finally been eliminated " |