Show I r I STATE NEWS NEW I DEADLY Y DISEASE IS TRANSMISSIBLE TRANS Sheep May be Responsible For Serious Senous Injury to all Other Stock il SALT LAKE April ApI 2 Tho disease cnown as lip and J Jeg eg 5 ulceration of sheep which has prevailed In Wyo Wyoming o Thing ming and other western states to such nn an extent as to lo Cause the Ule seen tar ary of oC agriculture to lo place a federal quarantine on sheep from Crom certain counties in Wyoming T is tho the subject of a publication just juat Issued by b the tho de do department of or agriculture in Ia this pub Dr A D Melvin Mclvin chief of the bureau hureau of o animal Industry describes s tho tue work of the tho bureau for tho the taiL sup of oC this disease and anI Dr Jonn R n Mohler chief of or the pathological division of or the bureau describes the tho nature and cause pf f tho disease and Describes treatment The investigations of the bureau of or animal industry as well as ns those modo by h other authorities in in this and other countries c show that lip and log leI ulceration Is 18 contuSions contagious and Is 16 ono one or ot orthe the various manifestations of oC o a dis disease disenSo ease enSo which oas nas been IMn given ghon the gen general oral eral designation of and which affects various species of ani mais Other Animals Arc Are Subject The rhe disease In sheep as found In inthe the tho western states B IlS arJes all the way war from om a mild mill sore soro mouth which often heals without treatment to a serious and aini virulent ulceration of or tho lips and und logs Irs and othor other parts of or tho body hody which In aggravated a cases is some som sometimes sometimes i times practically practical Incurable All the tho various forma of tho tile disease how however over ever nrc aro duo chI to the same germ which Is 15 known as zis bacillus Many have been Inclined to doubt the tho contagious character of at the tile affection known as soro sore mouth In y lambs claiming that the lesions wore were I simply the result of caused by b eating catin frosted rosted grass coarse forage fora c anti and similar causes lint But even in cases of this kind Dr Mohler has shown by b his liis Investigations that the lh wounds readily become Infected with wilh the tho germs In regions whore tho the Infection exists and that mild cases arc aro liable Hable to l develop Into InLo a more moro serious form |