Show loses of sheep occurring among local herd from liver fluke infection dr maan a western representative of the park davis dash company was in bernal on april 22 and in company with dr mcgennis of the U S 8 bureau of animal industry and county i agert E peterson went vent to joseph P tarm farm at maeser to make a post mortem examination of one ot of mr hackings hockings sheep which was in the last lost stags stag of liver nuke fluke infection mr hogan made a very thor burh examination to determine i wf ether the sheep were being infected with other pira than the liver fluke but mr hacking had treated the sheep for slon tach and intestinal worms v the day before and if the sheep were ere affected by these parasites the treatment certainly had been most effect effective he for dr hogan was unable to find the slightest tiace of any stomach or intestinal parasites but when hen he reached the liver he found it literally alive with liver lher nukes flukes alch which evidently is 1 the cause camic of the losses mr hacking lias has sustained in his sheep which have been pastured in the geetan bennett section last fall dr huffman of the bureau of animal industry made an investigation of losses which mr whitlock was harang and he found hia his sheep heavily infected with liver flukes and he warned sheep owner owners in that district that unless something was as done to prevent the spread it would a only be a short time until the sheep industry lr ir that section would be in exterminated the na live ue fluke only develops in clamp placed places but once sheep become infect infected erl they never entirely recover the I 1 ver lake must have i i snail aa a hot durin during part of his life history and if the snails arc am destroyed strayed dc the liver lher fluke cannot develop so control coni cani I 1 of the situation has been effective tive by destroying dest rosIng the snail this I 1 la done by use of copper sulphate blue vitrel A very weak solution of copper capper sulphate will ill kill snails and this Is t lie only known method of control the damp places are tire sprayed with a weak solution of copper sul gul phate or the ground Is 1 covered with a copper sulphate dust in some same places grere tr earns enter fields a sack of at copper sulphate irl phate Is U put right an the ditch and as a this is taken into solution by the stream strewn it is 1 carried curled I 1 yinto the land and thua thus destroys the biall several arms which formerly were ideal sheep pasture have become breeding grounds for snail and the industry has been annihilated the its first fluke known of in utah waa was brought from michigan la in pure red cheep M d arora f tills amye spread until eveni several oct loos have become so bad that the sheep infantry in try has had to be abandoned county agent peterson says heep owners should be very careful and determine as to whether or not sheep which they purchase are infected with lher fluke mr hacking Is cooperating with the county agent in trying to work out a feasible method of control but in the meantime every sheep man should be interested in seeing to tt it that his sheep don 6 become infected by pasturing all 0 low damp pastures dr hogan recommended a treatment which helped some in controlling con troUIn disease but he guarantee tha tb it this treatment cure cuire all an sheep treated it would certainly be a serious ous thing to our shep sheep industry should they become affected nth thia this parasite unless sheep evnen take this matter seriously there li a coeds balty that thu this uttie parasite auit wm drive them thern out of cg auslam busU xee |