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nize. In flocks where infectious disease are found, it is invariably trace- 

 able to additions to the flock. It is these diseases that will be dis- 

 cussed here. 



Sheep Scabies 



Of all communicable diseases of sheep in Kentucky, scabies con- 

 tinues to be the greatest menace. The distribution of scabies has 

 become general throughout the state wherever sheep are raised to any 

 extent. This wide distribution has made control work difficult as well 

 as very expensive. 



Our inspectors have been placed in the worst infected districts in 

 order to reduce the cost of supervision to the minimum. However, 

 with the limited force the necessary travel and incidental expenses 

 have been a heavy drain on the Board's finances. 



The regular procedure where a flock is found infected, is to place 

 the premises under quarantine, dip the entire flock twice at ten to 

 fourteen days interval in an official dip, under the personal super- 

 vision of a regularly employed inspector. These sheep thus quaran- 

 tined and treated are held under quarantine for sixty to ninety days, 

 then, reinspected and if found free are released. 



With conclusive proof at hand that a large percentage of the 

 infection was being disseminated by sheep going from the local stock 

 yards to the farm, it was considered to the best interest of the sheep 

 industry to pass a regulation, requiring that all sheep leaving the 



CONCRETE SHEEP DIPPING TANK 

 CAPACITY 333 GALLONS TO WATER LEVEL 



.SCALE \/t INCH - ONE FOOT 



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