Bulletin No.
447
Document Type
Bulletin
Department
Department of Veterinary Science
Description
The 1944 figure was 766,600 sheep for that area, showing more than 100 percent increase in a 20-year period. Between 1944 and 1950 sheep numbers declined in these six counties to 299,000. At least three factors accounted for the decrease after 1944: (1) the difficulty in obtaining labor; (2) favorable prices for cattle which could be raised with less labor; and (3) the prevalence of losses of lambs on range from dysentery, a condition that had existed for 5 to 7 years. It was the seriousness of the lamb losses that prompted the work reported here.
Keywords
Northwestern South Dakota sheep parasites
Pages
12
Publication Date
5-1955
Type
text
Format
application/pdf
Language
en
Publisher
South Dakota Experiment Station, South Dakota State College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts
Recommended Citation
Harshfield, B. S.; Carlson, F. N.; and Dorsey, T. A., "Observations on Parasitism in Sheep in Northwestern South Dakota" (1955). Research Bulletins of the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (1887-2011). 447.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/agexperimentsta_bulletins/447