SEPORT OF STATE VETERINARIAN. 565 



/ Number of 



Townships Re- Sheep Affected 



County. porting Scab. with Scab. 



Vermillion > 



Vigo 2 27 



Wabash 5 161 



Warren 2 6 



WaiTiclv 3 38 



Washington 3 112 



Wayne 1 5 



Wells 5 341 



White 6 57 



Whitley "0 



Scab was reported from 301 townships and a total of 7,433 supposed 

 to be affected. It was soon discovered that a very large number of 

 assessors reported only a few sheep affected— some seemingly thinlving 

 it was necessary to put some number to fill out the blank. One hundred 

 and eighty-nine reports show less than ten cases in the township. As 

 scab is a disease that is contagious, it is not probable that more than 

 a few of these reports ai'e correct. Our estimate of the actual cases after 

 investigation, deducting these erroneous reports and cases of mistali^en 

 diagnosis, is that there were a total of about 4,500 animals affected. 



These sheep in great part had been dipped by the owners prior to our 

 information, and some had been prepared for the yards and sold. About 

 2,700 were dipped by our advice. 



A newspaper bulletin upon sheep scab was prepared and sent out 

 under the auspices of the Experiment Station. It was very generally 

 printed by the 00<) newspapers, so that information upon the law was 

 general and efforts to locate new cases resulted in finding less than 40O 

 head. At this date (October 30) there are only 250 animals in quarantine 

 and these have been dipped as required. The following is a copy of tlie 

 newspaper bulletin: 



SHEEP SCAB. 

 [Bulletin.] 



Among the acts of the last session of the Indiana Legislature was one 

 malving it compulsory to dip all scabby sheep. The object is to stamp 

 out this expensive but unnecessary disease. The reports of the state 

 statistician for the past few years have shown that there has been a 

 considerable number of sheep affected. The forthcoming report will show 

 more than 8,(X)0 head reported to be affected for the year ending June 30. 

 There is no question but there have been many errors in reporting, but 

 deducting these there still remains a large number of affected sheep. 



