Livestock Disease Hits Dayton Ranches
Deputy State Veterinary Surgeon investigates an outbreak of blackleg in local cattle, tracing it back to imported herds from the Eureka Flat.
Deputy State Veterinary Surgeon Frazier, of Colfax, was in the city last week looking into reported cases of blackleg among cattle in this county. He found two bunches of cattle infected with the disease. In company with the sheriff and deputy, he was taken to the farm of W. D. Wallace, in the Lost Springs country, where a number of cattle were found to have the disease. The other bunch of infected cattle was found at John Fitzhugh's place, on the Eckler Mountain. The deputy left medicine and instructions as to the best way of fighting the disease. It is supposed the blackleg was brought into the county from a bunch of cattle driven up from the Eureka Flat country.
“It is supposed the blackleg was brought into the county from a bunch of cattle driven up from the Eureka Flat country.”
Animal health and disease transmission remain critical issues for the agricultural economy of the inland Northwest, mirroring the ongoing efforts of veterinarians to track and contain outbreaks in modern livestock populations.
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