48 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
The Cuarrman. Why could you not stop them just as much as you 
could stop the cattle? You stopped infected catile. 
Mr. Satmon. The only way we stop infected cattle is to keep super- 
vision over them to see that they do not go out. 
The CHarrman. Can you not say to the inspectors that they must 
watch the sheep trade too? 
Mr. Satmon. It would take a tremendous force of inspectors to watch 
the sheep trade, because they are all over the western States, the range 
States, the Rocky Mountain regions, and clear to California. In order 
to have enough inspectors there to stop diseased sheep going from one 
State to another it would take twice as many inspectors as we have. 
Mr. Grarr. There is a wider area of sheep raising than there is of 
cattle raising. 
Mr. Satmon. There is a wider area of disease amongst the sheep. 
The sheep scab is all over the range country. 
The CHarrMan. There is practically no inspection of cattle above 
the quarantine line? 
Mr. Saumon. Practically no inspection at present. 
Mr. Scorr. Why could you not stop them at the seaboard, as you 
would infected cattle? 
Mr. Satmon. We could when they showed the disease, but they 
would be infected in the stock yards. As long as the stock yards are 
infected and these sheep must go through them and come in infected 
cars, they carry the infection, and our inspectors are unable to detect 
the disease at that stage when they get to the seaboard, but when they 
reach the other side they show plain cases of scab. 
But our work during the last two or three years has reduced the 
amount of scab in exported sheep very materially. 
The Cuarrman. Was your work in that direction crippled for lack 
of means? 
Mr. Satmoy. It has not been nearly as extensive as it ought to have 
been, partly because of lack of means and partly because we were not 
able to build up our force fast enough. Of course we are trying to 
keep the force growing to meet the demands of the country as nearly 
as we can. 
For this sheep scab last vear we inspected sixteen and a half million 
sheep in the stock yards and over the range country, and we had 
dipped under our supervision 2,167,000, and 394,000 of these were 
dipped twice. I will say that the disease, sheep scab, increased to 
such an extent that we made arrangements with some of the western 
States, Wyoming and Utah in particular, to go in there and help them 
supervise dipping the sheep to cure the sheep, and get it cleaned up. 
There did not seem to be any hope of stopping the shipment of dis- 
eased sheep in any other way. That accounts for the large number 
that were dipped. Wyoming was pretty well cleared of sheep scab 
last year. I think another year’s work will practically clean it out of 
the aa 
The Cuarrman. Are you using that same dip you sent up to me? 
_Mr. Satmon. Yes, we use two dips. We nee a lime mel ‘anipiie 
dip and a tobacco and sulphur dip. 
The Cuatrman. Which do you find the better? 
_ Mr. Satmon. There is not much difference. Itis a matter of which 
Is more convenient. 
