The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-10-25
QUARANTINE Is RAISED
From Custer, Washita and
Roger Mills Counties.
EXPERIMENTS IN DIPPING
For Fever Tick at Noble are
Highly Successful.
EXPERIMENTS IN DIPPING

Guthrie, .. T, Oct -tSpecsal-)-f1on
r J. Edwards. secretary Of the ltvestocA
sanitary commission, was in the city To-
day comforting with the governor on quar-
antine matters, and before returning &c
his home in Oklahoma City announced the
following Official order removing the quar-
antine heretofore existing on Custer,
Washita and Roger Mills counties:
Oklahoma City, o. T. Oct. "A. 1898.
To Cattlemen and others: You are here
by notified that the quarantine heretofore
existing on Custer, Washita and Roger
Mills counties. o. T. is this day removed
You are warned. however. that any per-
son moving cattle that are infested with
cattle ticks will be prosecuted and that
10 cattle will be permitted TO be landed
mat are infested with said ticks. In
spectors will be at shipping points to
prevent any violation OF this rule and all
cattle 50 infested discovered at any ship
pin opens or on the trails enroute thereto
will be Guaranteed. Quarantine on Greer
county is still effective.
r. J. EDWARDS,
Secretary Live Stock Commission.
Mr.. Edwards is decidedly enthusiastic
over the experiment Of dipping cattle in
oil TO remove fever ticks, the first opera
ton being conducted last Saturday at No
bic under the supervision Of DR.. Lewis,
OF the Agricultural college. and himself.
Sixty-four head of Texas steers were
dipped 10 test the efficacy of the brand
Of oil known as extre dynamo oil now used
in the cattle dipping watts in Oklahoma
for the destruction OF fever ticks. The
cattle dipped last Saturday were alive
with ticks when they were driven through
a schute and fell from a trap into the
oil vat which was filed with FIVE feet of
oil. The cattle usually fell in head first.
going completely under. rising to the top
and swimming TO the far end of the vat,
where they could walk out on an incline
on which they were held for short time
to allow the oil to drip from their coats.
The dynamo oil used contains sulphur
and other chemicals which, combined,
nave the power of destroying the ticks
without injuring the eyes, skin or hair
of the animals immersed in 1t. All the
cattle passed through the immersian
without accident and emerged in good
shape. After the immersion the cattle
were driven to feeding lots about thirteen
miles from Noble, where they will be
kept under the observation of DR.. Lewis.
The oil usually destroys the ticks in
twenty-fOur hours. 1t not only kills the
tick by smothering it, but it also shrivels
its body until il becomes hard and brit
tie and falls to pieces. Many persons
feared fatal results TO the cattle because
of an unsuccessful experiment at Fort
Worth last summer, where quite a per-
centage of the cattle died from overhead.
The weather was very warm and after
dipping the Fort Worth cattle were placed
IN cars and shipped several hundred
miles. This. together with the fact that
the oil mad a tendency to close the skin
pores. caused their death. Il is thought
that with the cold weather the cattle
dipped last Saturday will experience no
Inconvenience. The board will continue
the experiments as fast as cattle are ire
scented for dipping After the cattle are
dipped they may be admitted inc any part
Of the territory without inspection
J. \. Van Wrinkle. an attorney of Shaw
nee. was IN the city yesterday to protest
against the certihcauon of George A
Outcelt as the Republican nominee on
the legislative ticket in the Eighth repre-
sentative district. Mr.. Van Wrinkle MIN
self petitiened the election board that ne
be placed on the ticket as the Republican
nominee. but the board rejected his peji-
ton because it failed to comply with the
law in several essentials. The gist of
Nlr. Van Wrinkles complaint appears to
De. however. that the nominee recognized
by the board comes from Tecumseh the
rival county seat town. and ne frankly
asserts that the Republicans Of Shawnee
would prefer 10 vote for Populist rather
tnan for a Tecumseh Republican. But the
election board has even deprived them OF
this privilege by refusing 10 recognize the
certificate Of nomination of T. W Whit
taker as the ePopie's Party candidate
because IL failed TO show number of i'm
p0rtaat features that the law requires.
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