The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-04-03

That a vigorous and effective camp.
align against scabies will be mad in
New Mexico is shown by the follow
ing account taken from the Albuquer-
que Journal of the meeting held re
Gently in hat city of the Territorial
Sheep Sanitary Board:
A meeting of the New Mexico sheen
sanitary board was held yesterday af-
ternoon il the office of Harry F Lee,
secretary OF the board, which in its
results is undoubtedly the most i'm.
portant meeting of the board since its
organization.
The board during an all day session
completed arrangements for cooper
alton with the government bureau of
animal industry in a far reaching
campaign for the eradication of the
sheep scabbies from the 1ocks and
ranges of New Mexico, a campaign
which, as designed, will be SO thoro
as to effectually clean the ranges of
this territory and which will be Of
untold value to the sheep growers and
to the territory.
The magnitude of the task which
has been undertaken will be seen
hen it is known that h govern
ment is to place in the field at once
a force of seventy five inspectors who
will cooperate with fifty men to be
appointed by the sheep sanitary board
for the inspection of the range, this
to be followed by a dipping and dis
injecting campaign by the bureau and
the board in which the government
will place 100 men in the field and the
board not less than fifty.
The proposed campaign against the
scab, has been under consideration
by the sanitary board for several
anr a~l fn, tho .ocf fyrn Woo &c
active negotiations have been under
way between the board and the bureau
of animal industry for a campaign
such as has been successfully carried
on in the northwestern states n
which has relieved those states of
sheep scab. Within the past year,
after numerous conferences with DIR.
Melvin, chief of the bureau of animal
industry and Messrs. Ramsey and
Steadman of the bureau, the bureau
has announced it's intention of Co
operating with the territorial board
in the war against scab. The cam
paign was actually determined on
some months g and is now to be
carried out at once. The sheep SAM
tary board, ~forseeing the necessity
for cooperation with the government
in such a campaign has been boarding
it's for several years and
now has in it's possession a consld-
cradle fund which will probably be suf
ficient to bear the t~erritory's portion
of the expense, without any addition
al tax on the sheep growers of the
territory. 1t has been a wise policy
the part of the board and the val
ue OF it is now readily to be seen
The campaign about to be entered
is of the very first Importance to
the sheep growing interests of New
Mexico. Scab has been gaining in
the herds of this territory in spite of
the steady increase in dipping and
advance of scientific methods in
the care of f1ocks.. New Mexico is
actually in danger of a possible quar-
because of the prevalence of
scab, Il only a campaign like the
one about to begin will relieve the
growers of that danger. The SAM
tary board proposes to advise every
sheep man in the territory of the pro-
posed campaign. and to seek the ac-
tive assistance and cooperation OF
every owner of sheep in this n far
reaching effort to clean up the terri
tory. 1t is a work in which the sheep
rover of the territory will undoubt-
eddy join. since it affects directly and
most be%neicially their own Individual
interests.