Show SHEEP didgs IS PUT POT TO THE 1190 soon a thing of past on the ranges of this state that the lip and leg disease which ravaged sheep camps and ranges of utah during the early part of last year and in 1909 has been almost entirely stamped out is 13 the statement of dr A C young state veterinarian eri er marian who has completed a general investigation of present conditions dr young butys that he knows of only one or two isolated cases of the disease in the state at present the disease which is known as first broke out in the state early in 1909 if and spread with alarming rapidity it was soon found on practically every range in the state and thousands of shep died from it the sheep men lost annd eds of thousands of dollars as a result the government and state officials began to arrange for a campaign against the disease and after getting the sheep men into believing that it was to their interest to help in the work sent out orders and bulletins the disease was investigated and a means of curing it worked out the treatment of sheep had to be by hand and in most cases the eners instead of treating the animals killed them 1 there was a quarantine order issued and every effort was as made to prevent the spread of the disease gradually thare was as improvement among the flocks the hot season between june 1st and september while the sheep were on the summer range wiped out the disease |