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Show TEN MILLION IS VALUE OF UfflSDEEP Total Receipt From Wool Amounts to $2,250,000, and From Mutton $3,250,000 On th0 ranges of Utah there, are, It Is estimated 2,100,000 sheep, valued at 110,000,000, nottlng their owners a gross lncomo of $5,500,000 nnd the outlook for tho sheep Industry nt present Is much moro encouraging than it was a year ago. This, in brief, is tho situation In this Utah industry ns sot forth In the annual report of stato board ot sheep commissioners com-missioners filed with Governor William Wil-liam SDrv. It Is noted that with exception of soma flocks In Ueavor county scabies Is not known to exist In the state, and attention Is called to the fact that the government quarantine in tho countlos of Grand, Emery and Carbon tor scabies was raised August Aug-ust 14, 1914, for tho first time since 1900 and that no government Inspection Inspec-tion of sheep is now required la nny part ot tho state prior to shipping on tho forest reserves. Tho freedom from dlscaso Is, attributed at-tributed to tho strict enforcomont ot laws and to the prompt oxecutlon ot measures to eradlcato tho disease when it has brokon out. Tho board feel that it won a great victory In tho matter ot enforcement ot the uw In a decision of Judgo A. 11. Chrlstcnson at Prlco early this year, when ho uphold tho right of tho board to havo Its doputies take nnd dip sheop when the owner rotusod to comply with orders to dip them. Under the heading ot spring work, tho board reports that it deemed It advisablo to make an inspection of all sheep In the stato (except those flocks ranging In the far southern section, and compelled tho Immediate Immedi-ate dipping of an and all sheop found to bo diseased. In tho tall, it Is stated, tho goTorn-ment goTorn-ment and the stato worked hand and hand In both the Inspection ot flocks and supervision over dipping whero it was found the sheep had boon infected in-fected or exposed to dlsoaso. Examination Exam-ination ot sheep tho past fall showed show-ed nine range herds Infected with scabies, hut all ot tho cases bolng in mild form. A peculiar skin dlscaso known as Oregon wildfire, it reported, has existed ex-isted among flocks in tlio central and soulhorn portions ot Utah for a number num-ber of years. A sheep Infected with tho troublo Is to bo sont to Washington Washing-ton by tho government authorities, It Is stated, so tho dlscaso may be studied. It is not believed that tho dlscaso Is Infectious. Sheop ticks havo Increased among tho flocks, the report states, and tho board believes that stringent measures meas-ures aro necessary to chock tho par asites. It is stated that exporlmonts to detennlno tho best methods ot doal ing with tho pest aro bolng carried on by tho United States bureau ot animal an-imal Industry and tho board. Thero has been no Up nnd leg disease, dis-ease, no foot rot and no foot and mouth dlscaso observed among the sheep of. Utah. Tho board says that tho shoopmon as a wholo received bettor prices for tholr wool lns.t spring than tho pro-ceding pro-ceding yenr, nnd It Is estimated that the total recolpts woro $2,250,000. It ts urged that shcopmen Improve their methods of packing wool. The mutton market Is shown to havo been strong during tho full owing ow-ing partly to tho European war. It Is estimated that tho shoopmon re- eolved $3,250,000 for tholr sheep sent to eastern markets. Reports from various parts of the state show that coyotes aro as numerous numer-ous now as years ago, tho report recites, re-cites, and It Is estimated that tho annual an-nual loss to sheepmen from them Is $200,000. The board believes that the bounty on coyotes should bo Increased Increas-ed from $1.50 to $3, and that the tax on sheep for the bounty fund should bo Increased to furnish more money to Pay bounties. The board Is now Investigating the effectiveness ot in-noculatlng in-noculatlng coyotes with scab. |