Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-03-19 | Page 20 | Dr. Hoggan Reports Death of Livestock

DR. HOGGAN REPORTS DEATH OF LIVESTOCK Dr. R. TV. Hogiran, state veterinarian, returned yesterday from Lake Point, where ho has been investigating the livestock live-stock deaths in that section. Numerous requests were made that tlie slate official of-ficial ascertain the reason for "pink-eye,"' or anima! influenza. Dr. Hoggan found that tlie deaths were largely due to smelter smel-ter smoke. , Among the recent iry estimations conducted con-ducted by the veterinarian was the sheep case in Taylorsville, where 3 "8 ewes belonging be-longing to the Woods Brothers flocks died in the month of February. A strange feature fea-ture of the deatli of the animals, Dr. Hoggan points out, is that almost all of them have recently given births to twin Iambs. 1 le added that malnutrition is finite general all over Utah and that many diseases have betjn imagined by the livestock live-stock owners, wnen in reality tho only-Trouble only-Trouble lies in tlie unbalanced food, consisting con-sisting in many cases almost entirely of alfalfa.