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Show BIG SHIPMENTS OF SHEEP MADE 00 Cars From I'tah Will Go Out At least six hundred cars of Utah sheep, fattened during the early winter win-ter ou beet pulp and in feed lots, will go from the state to the markets of California and Missouri river point. Tli is is the forecast of A. A. Calister, secretary of the stale board of sheep commissioners. Reports received from various points in the state by CaHister in the last few days place the number of sheep in feed lots, he estimates, at about a hundred and fifty fif-ty thousand head. This is a larger number than has been held off the winter range in fonier years. In Sanpete and Sevier counties alone, reports show, there are approximately approxi-mately seventy-five thousand head in feed lota. Tllp rpcriil anniv wliii'li wiiu fiilrl- I general all over the state, will be a ! big benefit to the sheep ou the winter win-ter ranges, according to the commissioner. commis-sioner. "Until the snow came the sheep were huddled in bunches near the water holes. Now they can scatter scat-ter out over the desert and eat the snow or drink the water formed by melted snow 'n the hollows. In the summer sheep live in the high timbered tim-bered land and foothills, but in the winter they go on winter range the deserts, where there is lit tie deep snow and where it is comparatively warm." As to the condition of winter ranges Callister says most of them are good, although he has heard rumors ru-mors that the desert in Topele county is not so good as it might be. Fine winter range In Beaver county in the vicinity of Milford, is reported by J. W. Johnson of Beaver. The sheep commissioner is optimistic concerning concern-ing the condition sheep will be in next spring when they come from the ranges. "Dipping for ticks was done thoroughly thor-oughly this year," he said, "and I believe be-lieve tho sheep will come clean next, spring. Last spring they were pretty pret-ty much infected with the ticks, but I believe we have got rid of them to a large extent. There is not a spot of scabies in Utah at present that we know of and I believe this pest h.is finally been eliminated." Price Sun. |
