Show GREAT DANGER THREATENS THE rhe UTAH SHEEP INDUSTRY steps being taken to prevent the spread of the lip and leg disease wants to put an electric light and power plant in price local and state nes news my CAUSE quarantine attry sheep owner aliened Asses 10 to help fight the dimie disease up and leg disease Is a all over the lute in s spots pots and unless stopped fit at tee will cost utah millions of dollars rill will nearly destroy the sheep industry tf of thie this end and the adjoining states and will rarely cause utah to be quarantined I 1 in n finitely by the other states thus pre tenting the shipping of sheep and sheep pio octa such is in substance the report made to a special meeting of the utah wool monday itter noon by dr A C young state veterinarian dr ir young waa was seconded in hij his views ij 1 F 11 murray of the united states bireau of animal industry these two plainly told the sheep men that it was either pennies now to stamp out the scourge or dollars and tins tw of 0 dollars total losa loss next year and terean thereafter ter one of tb thi most erious serious phases of the it dr young pointed out waa was that dist the state had ho money available nth with which to undertake the work after along a long discussion the sheep men present speaking in the rz nusse e of the wool association voted to asing 1 kit each sheep man in the stale state 10 ti lable to the association at once to b banned used under the direction of dr young yuan this la Is only an emergency measure more money will probably be called for hen when the work Is a well under way the uses will probably be made on ion thou idof of the number owned it 1 more money is needed but to avoid delay a straight levy of 10 per owner oner regardless of 0 his number waa was made monday DISEASE DESCRIBED up lip and leg lest disease la Is scientifically cnown as I 1 and is one of 0 the worst scourges known to sheep neero means mead dead body and the rest of the word means what is commonly called germ or microbe in other words the lip and leg disease la Is rinsed by a germ that causes parta parts of the th beeps body to die and rot even if the rest rat of the sheep is alive the nose becomes b cohoes covered with watery pimples AW ad the glands in the jaw swell and bunt burst something like big jaw in cattle while the feet also are attacked ud and rot away a ay not only ampy one sheep give the tome to another or to a whole flock in a 1 few days but the germs get into tt a e ground and uvo live for an unknown period of time perhaps several years thua making the range deadly and the lip and leg disease among heep sheep in some ways is like small pox among human beings not only may one contaminate a whole crowd but the house is infected mo no cure sa known for the disease when hen it in tit ce gets a firm foothold ex ept to take each individual sheep and tive give it great personal care something practical impractical with average grade sheep in large numbers as on an the runge range one man ie Is said to have lost bd held of sheep out of one flock three dys after the disease appeared apo eared another lest lost on one shipment to the east another 10 cents per head on the average for every sheep he owned this loss is only in the places where the scourge has broken out many places in utah are still free of the dis else but it ii Is spreading rapidly accoe ang ding to the speakers at atMon mondays daya meet in a few weeks there will be no place in utah ulah free from it unless it Is checke at once orica according to drs young and murray recognized author atles les on the subject TAKING TAKINO VIOLENT FORM the disease has been in utah about two to years so far as know n but only this ummer summer hais it taken such violent form wd 1 8 spread 1 read over euch such a wide area in wyoming Y 0 m inc where the disease appears to have come from into utah many sheep beep mt mn n have lost every aj h ad and been een driven out e of business while the birge herd herds even in spite of thoy th efforts to 10 top stop the disease have kit lost thousands 0 it head in few days once onto the evil got a foothold one ono of the moat most important items in connection with the lip and leg disease ie is that the flies can and undoubtedly ur do carry it from one 11 beep to 0 another and if the virus should r reach each an sin open wound no matter how email small on otra ona a human being ft it would inoculate a man lra drs young and murray pronounce the present disease the lip and leg disease but are not absolutely certain until the germs which cause it have been isolated and identified to do this to establish just what the disease is will according to dr young coat cost about 4 2500 this 2500 by no means would bo be the cost of stamping etain ping out tho the trouble dr young would not venture to say what it might cost to eradicate the se arge but intimated that counting the loss in sheep tho the cost might reach into hundreds hun dieda eds of thousands unless the moat most vigorous measures are taken without delay the loss due to infecting the ranges throughout the state cannot annot be eftim tt ed speaker after speaker admitted I 1 that unless the utmost efforts are raabe and successfully carried out at once that utah will without doubt be quarantined against by all the other states in elf self protection and arid the blow to the sheep industry would run over the mallon mark CALL FOR THE the meeting waa was called by the utah wool growers association the elv board of sheep commissioners commissi onera and interested in the sheep industry of the state the meeting was wad held at 62 Post ece ice place about 20 and clas v re 4 the meeting was ariage Q it informal and the matter was discussed freely the oaly official business trans acted was passing the resolution to assess every sheep owner in the state 10 as a first payment to aee see what can be d done other financial methods will be discussed late later according t circumstances and development of the disease among those present were D dr A C young state veterinarian dr F E Z murray inspector in ia charge of the united states bureau of animal industry C B stewart secretary of the I 1 utah wool growers association enos bennion of uintah county A S erickson 1 of salt suit lake william moss of woods cross W D candiani Gand Candi land and of M mt t pleasant E H callister united states collector of internal revenue reve nuo X S neileon neilson of mantl president of the wool growers association J S oaler of nephi 11 P rr hursen of bear river I 1 L fackle of woods cross andrew larsen of mt pleasant and other sheep men it was stated at the meeting that a oo solution lution of coalter sote one third stronger than tor a scab wilt will in some cases act as a disinfectant but it can not be depended upon the meeting adjourned subject to call I 1 |