Show SHEEP IN UTAH I NOT AFFECTED Grub Disease Has Not Beer Been n I Brought Into This State from Wyoming t ACTS I IN N PECULIAR WAY L Attacks Animals I In n Delicate Membranes banes of Nose and Bores Into Brain I Reports from Wyoming are arc to the I effect that man many sheep In that state stale are from grubs grus in the hea head A species of or the n Hy fly family finds its wa way Avay into the nostrils of or the sheep and lays its eggs in the thc folds Colds pt of the delicate nasal membranes After being hatched the tho grubs gIUS which grow in size rapidly harrow burrow their theIl wa way through the mem mcm- mucous walls of the head directly into the brain min of or the sheep killing it It in ninny many cases Cn almost instantly upon reaching the tho brain tissues Inquiry at th the office of the state slate board hoard of oC sheep sheen commissioners commIssioner'S and atthe ut at utI I tho the local headquarters of the bureau of or animal industry is met with tho the Information that neither body has re received received re- re report of an any grub STub affliction among Utah sheep The Tho local sheep authorities say a- a that their chief worry Is caused by scab and other skin dis dis- diseases diseases ca eases es among the Scab is Infectious In- In and a rigid lild quarantine is placed laced against any sheep b by it IL According to reports the grub is 1 not considered Infectious except In a n slight degree degree- However the tho Wyoming are aro contemplating an cx- cx tensho dipping of sheep within the thc near future in an effort to eradicate r the malad malady Tho ho sheep of states In tho the southern part of the he country are aie said raId to be severely se severely severely se- se verely with grubs almost every year The grub disease seems to re result re- re suit sult as fatah as the peculiar big bighead head although its first effects are arc different Big llIS head drives the tho sheep in insane anc The Thc head swells to an enormous enormous ous size and the afflicted ani animal lal walks aimlessly in a circle until It dies |