| Show MAKE MAK t SPECIAL r EFFORTS EFF tfx R T S TO ERADICATE DISEASE utah Wool growers association and flockmans generally much worried over plague among sheep 4 44 4 4 4 C B steart stew art secretary of 4 the utah state Wool growers association last saturday sent 4 out to all owners in the state 4 4 the following important cir culat at a mass amass meeting of cheep nen men held october 4 1909 it 4 T was unanimously decided that concerted action be taken at once to investigate and aradi cate any lip and leg disease in 4 4 the state 4 4 lip and lec leg disease has been 4 reported in four different luf lof call cali tics ties in the state and in some shipments of sheep the disease has bas been found among T them by federal inspectors at theotime the time of unloading at the stockyards in one instance a party 4 having afif fifteen teen hundred head of 4 4 sheep could not ship them east for the reison remon that the tor found lip and leg disease 4 among them 4 4 4 4 4 4 TREATMENT FOR THE LIP AND LEG the head of a sheep dead from leg and lip dibase is on exhibition at the office of the bureau of animal industry in salt lake city I 1 ahe he specimen came aiom lund where the disease has only recently manifested itself and where special efforts are being made to eradicate it on the specimen in en under examination the mouth is is covered with ith red elike formations attended by inflammatory swelling having a decided tendency toward the formation foi mation of pustules these had dried forming crusts of a daik dal k grayish color of fungoid appearance pe arance characterized abo also by large diffused baab u over tile ulcerative surface should the disease dibease attack a large number of animals the ul ulcers ulers ers un on the legs may be best treated under range conditions by causing the affected sheep to piss twice daily through a shallow trough containing a 5 per cent solution of carbolic cai bolic bolie acid or a solution of any of a number of sheep dips lips ane ulcers of the mouths may be treated by applying this same solution to the affected parts by means of swabs under favorable fao rable weather eather conditions the affected animals may be dipped in one of these dips lips on two t 0 or three occasions ocLa with very cry satisfactory gatis factory results provided all the diseased parts are reached bv the solution in case the lesions lesion i on the tile animals have become far advanced it will ill be necessary to hand treat them by applying a stronger solution of the dip say one part to three parts water nater once daily foul or five fhe applications of this treatment are usually sufficient to cure the vast majority of cases u without complications but those of the aggravated type must be handled for a langei period and with a more penetrating and caustic solution for this purpose one part of nitric acid in seven parts of water applied externally to the ne erotic area only will be found very efficacious and easily applied to the most severe cases dr murray states that recent ad vicea from the department at washington report the leg and lip aisea disease 4 to be bacillus in every case ho that it is not merely mouths maddore made ma deore sore by change f from rom soft t to hard range feed |
