The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1919-04-11
WITH THE LIVE sToCKMEN
OF THIS SECTION OF UTAH

Shcaring began at Antelope corruls
last Tuesday I'd Christensen ~ in
charge. Shcarcrs will receive fifteen
cents per head and pay sl7j day
for board.
Cattle in the vicinity of Myion are
dying Of blacklcg Six in the Beavers
bunch were recently lost the day he
fore he was To make delivery 10 the
purchaser.
II II estimated that Ashley Valley
ha, shipped TO Salt Lake City IN the
past six months five hundred fat
hogs. The shipment from the entire
Uiniah Basin during the year 1918
was doubtless 100000 worth
e. a. Larson of Rcdcnp has u
February eve which NJ fourteen
months old yielded twenty-five pounds
of wool, ten months growth. This
year she will shear thirty pounds.
Larson has one eve. three years old,
which brought him last year S3l 80 IN
WOOL and lambs.
The government sold ut public nuc-
ton surplus army horses aud mules
up Ia March lsi, last, 10 the value OF
sll.4li.007. In nll n6.5ls animals.
Sales were held al thiriy.siN camps,
environments and stations The aver,
age price WAS q hundred aud eighteen
dollars. Animals sold were cavalry
and riding horses and heavy artillery
horses, wheel and lead mules. pack
and riding mules.
Utah has the only woman tuppcr
and hunlrrss IN the country that 10 IN
the employ Of any state. The state
live stock commission last Monday
appointed Mrs. William Ritter, whose
home IL near l.ehi. ~ trappcr and
hunter Tor the board. Her husband
performs the same duties for the gov
crnmoni. Mrs.. Ritter il regarded ~
an expert nimrod, her work eNcclling
practically all the male hunters and
trnppcrs.
Dr. J. ". Hendricks OF Richmond
aud DR.. Z. H. philpoit of Provo were
appointed last Monday az veterinary
inspectors by the state live stock
board. Francis Nelson of Blanding
was named sheep inspector, and the
inspectors who served last year for
this work were all rcappointed The
other veterinary inspectors were also
appointed for another twelve months.
the new appointments being additions
10 the force.
Because hc had mo- other place To
winter his extra cattle j.. T. Convey
last fall turned them out ON Duchesne
Bottoms, seven miles above Myton, on
a large acreage of growth said Ia be
Wild cane. Al any rate ~ b. heavy,
widehladed grass. lie hoped that they
would come ont this spring alive, at
least, though emaciated Imagine his
surprise when he found that they not
only enjoyed eating that stuff but
that they a. once began TO grow fat.
lie Immediately negotiated a lease ON
two hundred ncres FOR five years and
Is now fencing a.
American dairy cattle are 10 Doe sent
To devastated districts of France,
where they will do their "bit" toward
restoring thu health of the children of
those regions. More than a hundred
head of purebred cattle, recently pur-
chased by the French high commits
sion and selected from the best herds
by experts of the United States de
parlment of agriculture, shortly will
leave New York for Hayre on a
special equipped transport. There is
said 10 be an urgent demand for milk
from the warstrioken areas.
Idaho sheepmen are urged TO dis
pose Of their wool clips by X, r. Bick-
nell, former food administrator of
that state and a big producer of wool,
10 Bicknell, present mar
ket conditions are such that IL would
be good business for the sheepmen "a
sell their clips at the prices now Of
fered, which are higher than the pres
emit market conditions in the East
Justify and above the basis of the
wool prices, Idaho
CONTINUED on page eight