The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-02-09
TEN MILLION
IS VALUE Of
UTAH SHEEP
Total Receipts From Wool Amounts
to $2,25o,ooo, and From Mutton
$3.50, 1000

On the ranges Of Utah there. are,
1t is estimated 100000 sheep, valued
at $1O,OOO,OOO, netting their owners a
gross income Of $5,500,0OO and the
outlook for the sheep industry at
present is much more encouraging
than 1t was year ago. This, in
brief, is the situation In this Utah
industry as set forth In the annual
report Of state board of sheep COM
missioners filed with Governor VIII
liam Spry.
II Is noted that with exception of
some focks in Beaver county scabies
is not known to exist In the state,
and attention is called to the fact
that the government quarantine in
the counties of Grand, Emery and
Carbon for scabies was raised Aug
ust IA, 1914, for the first time since
1900 and that no government inspec-
ton Of sheep Is now required In any
part of the state prior to shipping
on the forest reserves.
The freedom from disease Is at
tributed to the strict enforcement of
laws and to the prompt execution of
measures to eradicate the disease
when 1t has broken out. The board
feel that 1t won a great victory in
the matter Of enforcement of the
aw in decision of Judge A. II.
Christensen at Price early this year,
when he upheld the right of the board
to have its deputies take and dip
sheep when the owner refused to
comply with orders to dip them.
Under the heading of spring work,
the board reports that 1t deemed It
advisable to make an inspection Of
all sheep In the state Except those
hocks ranging In the far southern
section. and compelled the immedi-
ate dipping OF any and all sheep
found to be diseased.
In the fall, II Is stated, the govern
ment and the state worked hand and
hand In both the inspection Of fiosks
and supervision over dipping where
1t was found the sheep had been In
fected or exposed to disease. Exam
nation Of sheep the past fall show
ed nine range herds infected with
scabies, but all of the cases being In
mild form.
A peculiar skin disease known as
Oregon wildfre, 1t reported, has ex-
listed among fiocks In the central and
southern portions Of Utah for num-
Der OF years. A sheep infected with
the trouble is to be sent to Washing
ton by the government authorities, 1t
Is stated, so the disease may be
studied. 1t Is not believed that the
disease is infectious.
Sheep ticks have increased among
the flocks, the report states, and the
board believes that stringent meas
ures are necessary to check the par
asites. It is stated that experiments
to determine the best methods OF deal
ing with the pest are being carried
on by the United States bureau OF an.
imal industry and the board.
There has been no lip and leg dis
ease, no foot rot and no foot and
mouth disease observed among the
sheep of Utah.
The board says that the sheepmen
as a whole received better prices for
their wool last spring than the pre-
ceding year, and it is estimated that
the total receipts We're $2,250,OOO. It
is urged that sheepmen improve their
methods of packing wool,
The mutton market is shown 10
have been strong during the fall ow-
ing partly to the European war. 1t
Is estimated that the sheepmen re-