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Show Range cattle suffer from new disease In the fall when cattle come off the mountains in the Inter-mountain Inter-mountain area a peculiar disease dis-ease afflicts many of them. Veterinary scientists of Utah State University note that Utah cattle have been hit hard by this disease which can. be highly fatal if it progresses too far. Utah cattlemen call the disease dis-ease "grunts" because of the hard grunting breathing associated asso-ciated with it. The British call it "fog fever" probably because it often appears in fat stock shows where the air is filled with smog. Veterinarians know it to be Acute Bovine Pulmonary Pulmon-ary Emphasema, meaning excess ex-cess air in the lungs of .cattle. Though the disease does not always appear under the same conditions, Dr. Blake noted that in Utah it is seen most often in cattle coming off from rather poor mountain ranges and going into lush pastures in the valley. Censequently he advises ad-vises ranchers to watch for signs of the disease at that time. When any signs appear, he suggests penning all the cattle at night and giving them a partial fill of dry roughage in the morning before turning them back on the lush pastures. pas-tures. Extension Veterinarian Dr. Don W. Thomas urges that ranchers use this practice as a prevention wherever past experience ex-perience indicates that the disease dis-ease likely will strike unless such precautions are taken, Ranchers who follow this practice prac-tice admit that it requires more work, but it also saves |