Show I SHEEP WITH SCAB I I General Alarm Occasioned Among Agricultural Authorities I Washington April 21The agricultural agricul-tural department has received reports I of large shipments of sheep from the stock ranges of the west into the corn belt I is asserted that there is a large percentage of sheep scab existing on the ranges and that this will be spread by transmigration of the sheep While the disease is not known to be i more materially extensive than in recent re-cent seasons it is sufficiently general to cause alarm among the agricultural I authorities and steps have been taken to enforce the law and prevent the sereis of shse > from one state Into another The departments representa ths have been instructed to warn I ntr transporters and all connected tli it V iation of the law will be prose cut d Tl grams received by the de pa1 tftnt t today announce that 2000 lifitis rijped from Nebraska more or Uc I afferred by the 50 reached Chi catj < > this morning and that 500 other lami from the same point and in the t sari condition rca htJ Chicago and a CTP ci oM for nmatt shipment to the rvnn n g < ns of Ohio rn r feeding rr fu tui sale fr mutton Secretary Wil sn 1111 Chif SalTon c < f the bureau of animal mdustrv has frvl a conference v t > io situation thjs afternoon add ad-d ridfl to UC every otner means avail a1 j i 1 roKi the herds at largeS large-S < ri ry Wsn t I < raphed notice i that the interstate trpsportation of ih ff i sheen wa acnnst the law and HI rls must he l so IsDOBed of as to comply with the dicartment regulate I regula-te Hi tjurtons have ben given permit tnjr thE transportation of such animals after being dinned into the prescribed disnsfectinK solution which precaution I large numbers of th < stockmen I is said have omitted to take |