The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-16
HIGHEST PRICE
PAID FOR LAMBS
Heber Man Gets Top Notch for
Shipments to Kan
SaS City.
BEST SINCE YEAR OF 1906
RANGE CONDITIONS GooD-No
WOOL ACTIVITY-DiSEASE,

Never were conditions generally in
Utah better for the sheepmen of the
state. Lambs are in the best condition,
and the shipping season is now on in full
force, many lambs being shipped to
Kansas City and other points, and
bringing prices that have not been real
lied since in the fall of 1906.
Probably the best price that has been
received in Utah for lambs was the
lambs by J. s. Murdoch last week from
Heber City to Kansas City. These
lambs averaged in weight siXty-nine
pounds, and brought $3.50. That, it was
reported, was the highest price paid for
lambs in Kansas City to anyone since
Sept. II, 1906.
Shipping is now being made of lamps
from all parts of Utah, but especially
. from the Heber City district While the
high prices for lambs now reach the 1906
prices, the prices for WetheTs and ewes
still remain somewhat under the prices
of that year
Reports from sheepmen recently in
torviewed are to the effect that the
ranges are all good and especially so i'm
the southern part Of the state. The win
ter range IN the northwest part of the
state is reported not quite so good as
last year ON account of the excessive
heat this summer
The Lip Disease.
Speaking of the lip and hip disease
about which so much has been said of
late, am old sheepman yesterday said
that the disease was by no means new
I'm Utah-that it had been known ever
since the sheep industry was started
here He said it was not really dis
ease, and that entirely too much stress
mad been put upon fl. Old sheepmeu
know all about it, and have known
about it for years. He said;
THE lip and hip disease is nothing
more or less than a sore mouth on young
sheep. 1t is never found on old sheep
Tt is caused by taking the lambs away
from the ewes when they are too young.
before their gums are hardened. Denied
the sustenauce of their mothers milk
the slender lambs have to begin rustIiug
for living. They eat hardened food
and their gums get sore.
In Utah and i'm parts of Idaho there
Is al green, mOsSy-kind of a bush that
is something like the prickIy pear, and
which the sheep are very fond Of This
especially makes their tender mouths
sore. Another FOOD which the lambs
seek with particular relish is a bush
commonly called the 'shad scale That
also has minute thorns on H.
lambs placed on green. tender food
never acquire the disease. 1t is nothing
at all alarming, and the lambs quickly
recover when taken away from the kind
of food which causes the soreness. or as
soon as their gums have become hard
ened."
No Wool Activity.
A. s. Erickson, representative here for
the b. Harris Wool company of st.
Louis, which company last season
bought about twO-thirds of the Utah
crop, and who naturally is pretty we'll
posted ON the wool conditions. was asked
yesterday if there were any advances
being made by buyers for next season
crop.
lie said he had heard reports that a
few buyers had been in Idaho Offering
To contract for next seasons wool at
similar prices to those paid this season,
but he doubted it. He thought it was
a Tumor started by the sheepmen.
There is no activity in wool now" he
said. There are no buyers i'm the west
that I know anything about. EXCEPT
those who, like myself. are here all the
year around. No contracts so far as 1
know have been made for next seasons
crop in Utah.