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Show NEED MORE MONEY ' 4? TO INSPECT SHEEP Annual Report Shows That the Last Appropriation Was Inadequate. The state board of sheep commissioners commis-sioners has filed its annual report with Governor Spry. The commissioners commis-sioners paid out $4,500 in the year and have $1,398.10 on hand. Attention i.. called to the fact that the last ap-pioprlation ap-pioprlation for infection purposes was inadequate, arid that the funds were accordingly used In the districts in which the services of the Inspectors Inspect-ors were most needed. There is but IHtle scab among the sheep, the re-prrt re-prrt says, but Inspections have to bo mp.de just the same, and more money is needed for the purpose. In this work the government 1ms rendered valuable aid to the state Mention is made that after the Tinited States bireau of animal Industry Indus-try had made an Investigation, the government quarantine was released 011 Washington, Iron, Beaver, Piute. Carlleld, Kane aud San Juan counties, or.J it Is expected that other portions of the state will be released at an early date Generally speakins. sheep are in gon condition, the report says. The sheep tick has appc-.ired, but it has made little progress, by reason of P'.ompt dipping Wool is cheaper than It was last year, the report says The last win ter was a hard one on sheep, and it was followed by a dry summer. Many sold their sheep, and there is now only about 8 Oper cent of the sheep in the state that there were here a year ago. An Improvement is reported in summer sum-mer ranges. Free ranges have almost entirely disappeared, and seeding r.:ngs are now being used, and the sheepmen are fencing their landa. This ,s found advantageous, as almost twice us many shetp can be fed on a fenced range as on a herding range. Tho commissioners express the belief be-lief that there should be a system of grazlug cm the forest reserves, although al-though in many Instances It has worked a hardship on llockmasters ord deprived the state of needed revenue. Regardiug the bounty on coyotes, the commissioners say that tbe proposition propo-sition is not working satlsfnctorily. In their opinion, the men who hunt coyotes for the bounty do not desire to kill all of them, as tbeir Industry vvould then be at an end. |