Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1911 — GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS OF SHEEP ARE HERE. [ARTICLE]

GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS OF SHEEP ARE HERE.

Veterinarians Are Hunting Among Jasper County Herds for Seabes —Weather Very Unfavorable. , Drs. J. E. Gibson, L. M. Blufflngton and W. L. Atherton, three veterinarians from the Bureau of Animal Industry of the U. S. Agricultural De-, 1 partment, are in Jasper county. Their visit here is to inspect sheep herdal in various parts of the county to ascertain if there is any seabes or I “scab,” as it is commonly called. If they find a case they promptly place it in quarantine, which means that the owner can not move the herd or any part of it from the farm. The owner, is informed that the government will send a man to dip the sheep into a solution that experiment has proven to be a sure cure. All that, is expected of the owner is that he pays for the solution. It costs about $1.25 a gallon and three gallons will dip about 50 to 75 sheep. Seabes is caused by a little white parasite or louse, which burrows into the wool of the sheep and lays from 15 to 24 eggs. These hatch in about ten days, and then all lay eggs and the proagation is rapid and all make, their home with the sheep and the sheep soon knows they are present, and so does the owner, if he watches hjs sheep. Two treatments cure the infected animals. The treatments are given 14 days apart, so as to catch all the parasites the first time and the new supply ,in case there have been any eggs when the first treatment was administered.

If the farmer objects to having the, sheep treated, which he probably will not do, he is informed that the sheep will be kept under quarantine and if he undertakes to remove them he will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. . Dr. Gibson informed The Republican representative that himself and assistants have been at work in Indiana since last February and that they have visited forty-three counties. In Steuben county they found seabes in fortytwo herds of sheep. The men came to Jasper county last Friday and Saturday they inspected about 3,000 sheep, visiting the Thompson ranch in Union township and other points further north. They found no indication of the seabes in the sheep, inspected. The bad weather Monday and this morning kept them from going put again, but they will visit, a number more farms where sheep are raised before they leave the county. Their work Js an important one, is. properly authorized and deserves the encouragement and co-operation of all farmers and stockmen.

Royal Flour, one of the .very best brands ever sold in Rensselaer, is how on sale at the Depot Grocery. Ellis Theatre, Our Stock Co., in “AH, the Comforts of Home.”