The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1920-07-09
AUSTIN GLINPS BETTER
THINGS FOR WOOL
GROWER
concluded From Pase sls.l

elimination of scrub and grade sires.
purebred ones must be of good quail
ity The slogan "Better Sires-Bet-
ter Stock urges not only purebrcd
sires. but good purebreds
Deaths among cattle in the Wa
satch national forest reported bv the
Pleasant Grove Grazers association
caused a visit Of DR. X. w. Hogan.
state live stock inspector. to that To-
cality last Tuesday. Weeds which the
cattle had caaten were responsible.
Swine owners of Utah met at Salt
Lake City last week when plans FOR %
permanent state organization were
made. II was decided To call gen
cral meeting of an swine breeders at
the state capital on July 10Th. A. T..
Lee OF Tuylorsvillc will act a. chair.
man.
Reports made TO the state live
stock commission received show that
out of sixteen hundred head Of eat.
tie tested for tuberculosis IN Ogden
Valley at Huntsville, Eden. Liberty
and Middleton there are no reaction
aries. which demonstrates renarl.
ably healthy condition among the big
herds in that part of the state.
Lewis Ford, a sheepman. is the de-
PENDANT IN n suit for hundred dol
LIARS damages filed in the United
States district court last Friday The
complaint alleges that Ford knowing.
~ allowed his herd of twenty-one
hundred sheep To Craze on the Ashley
forest reserve without permission Of
the forestry officials, thereby dam.
aging the resnrve 10 the extent of
s15S25.
Clyde \. Nelson, state brand in
sector with headquarters at Price.
called last Tuesday ut the state live
stock commissioner office at Zion.
He reports there are few shipments
IN this section nj this ,inc rs cattle
are not IN shape 10 be sent out. The
severe winter left the cattle in poor
condition and they must be fattened,
hut he states the extra fine condition
of the range is fast putting them into
marketable shape.
"Rabics among cattle in the region
about Pennington Is due TO rabid
dogs and not to coyotes as reported, :"
SAYS Dr. X. W. Hogan. state live
stock Inspector Sin view of the large
number Of dogs that have been af-
fcctcd with rabies, the authorities
have ordered the precinct and city Of
iicials of Davis county 10 enforce the
muzzliug Of all CANNES The govern.
ment VIII send nm expert TO FarminA
ton Ia regard 10 the eradication of
coyotes"
d. d. Mckay representative for
Weber county In the Utah legislature,
has written 10 DR. K. W. Hogan,
state live stock Inspector, compile
mcntiug the board and the United
States bureau of biological survey on
their success in cfiectiug @ saving to
Huntsville stocl,mon hy means of the
cooperative campaign against preda-
tory wild animals. lie writes that
the LOSSES of lambs this year are re-
duced by 20 90 so per cent ot the
usual amount.
Stating his appreciation OF a., az
fectiyc work done by the state live
stock board IN conjunction with lhel
federal government in eliminating
predatory animals, d. d. Mckay, !
president of the state farm bureau, |
has sent a letter To Thomas Redmond, !
secretary of the state live stock |
board, stating the LOSSES Ia lambing |
this year from wild animal depreda-
iions had heen reduced about 50 per
cent. He believes the summer loss in
the Huntsville district will bee proper !
liuuutely reduced