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Show SHORTAGE OF VACCINE FOR ANTHRAX HERE Nation's Demand Takes Total Supply; Utah Cattle Threatened. An anthrax ' vaccine shortage theratens the nation nt the moment when anthrax is taking a great toll of cattle in several sections of the United States. Dr. Arthur Vance, Provo veterinarian, veter-inarian, who has x:harge of the anthrax preventative campaign in this district today said that he had barely enough vaccine to complete vaccination contracts already made. "I have enough vaccine on hand to take care of the animals in the Provo First ward pacture and two or three other small herds,'' Dr. Vance said. "We telegraphed to Denver and Kansas City, where most of this vaccine is manufactured," Dr. Vance explained. "They wired back that the demand in eastern and southern states has completely exhausted ex-hausted their supply." Press dispatches from the east and south indicate epidemics of anthrax among cattle aud horses in those states far Worse than what has been reported from Utah. No deaths among cattle herds in Utah county have been reported to Dr. Vance since Saturday.. More than GOO cows in Provo, Vineyard and Lakeview have been vaccinated, Dr. Vance himself vaccinating 400 cows. Dr. Vance" was asked what preventative pre-ventative campaign wonld be undertaken under-taken if the present supply of vaccine vac-cine was exhausted and another outbreak out-break uccured. "There is another vaccine, not as successful ns this, which we would have to use," he replied. President John W. Farrer, of the First ward pasture company, urges all owners of cattle in that pasture send or bring 60 cents per head of cattle to the pasture early Wednesday Wednes-day morning to pay for the vaccine. |