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A Study Of Mineral Nutrition Of Range Cattle In Southeastern Utah, Robert J. Raleigh
A Study Of Mineral Nutrition Of Range Cattle In Southeastern Utah, Robert J. Raleigh
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Cattlemen of south central Utah in Sevier and Wayne County areas have been plagued for the past twenty-five or thirty years by a malady known to the cattleman as "Brisket Disease." It is a chronic disease affecting both male and female of all ages. It is characterized in advance stages by enlargement of the brisket and throat regions, loss of appetite, a general unthrifty condition and marked ascites. The seriousness of the disease is indicated by a morbidity rate varying from one to five percent of the cattle grazing these areas with almost one hundred percent mortality rate.
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