The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-01


the ticks are killed every winter
that are north of the quarantine line.
This year we hope to add three Others
to this list-Burle, Caldwell ana
| Wilkes.
"As soon as the farmers and cattle
men of a county get rid of the ticks
and agree to abide by the quarantine
laws and cooperate with the Depart
ment of Agriculture in its effort to
maintain these laws we ask the United
Suites government to exempt that
county. The quarantine line can only
be maintained by the sentiment OF
| the community through which IL
passes. In most of the counties along
the line cattlemen form clubs and no
man is allowed to drive cattle across
the line. If he does so, he does it at
the risk of having them shot and him.
self indicted"
DR.. Curtice then discussed advantage
of stock law over free range grazing
| in the suppression of ticks, alleging
| that % per cent of the cattle in stock
| law territory are free from ticks,
while nearly all the serious outbreaks
of fever come from cattle grazing in
free range districts. He gave d num-
cent being at Tarboro, where an out
break of fever was caused by cattle
| brought from Martin county-a free
range section.
"There is" added DR.. Curtice, mo
more important legislation than that
the State should put quarantine
line around the free range sections.
This, perhaps, more than anything
else would prevent the spread of di-
sease and assist in freeing the stock
| law counties of ticks.
There are, DR.. Curtice said, more
cattle shipped from the eastern part
of this State, which is free range, to
| the western counties than is general
| ~ supposed Conditions in the east
are such that cattle can be raised
there very cheaply, and when they are
two years old they are shipped west
to be fattened. This spreads the
ticks and fever throughout the length
| of the State.
From a monetary standpoint, DR..
Curtice said it would pay the people of
any section to try to get rid or the
ticks In the first place it prevents
the loss of whole herds by disease.
In the second place there is about
al
sold from south of the line and that
north of the 44ne. Thus in North
| Carolina there are some 100000 or
100000 head of cattle, with only
about 100000 head north of the quar-
antine line.
DR.. Curtice thought also that there
ought to be some legislation IN the
south to prevent the importation
here from the north of tuberculous
cattle.
"One-ffth of the cattle north of MS
have tuberculosis, and they are often
sent here for dairy and breeding pur-
poses. The South has a right to de-
mand that this shall not be done as
the North demands we shall not send
our ticky cattle there"
FARMING IN LOUISIANA.
Commissioner Lee, of Louisiana,
read a very interesting and well writ
ten paper on Agriculture in Louis
lana.
He said the principal industry OF.
the State was the raising of sugar
cane. the products of the crop being
worth about twenty-five million dol
lars annually. Louisiana, he said,
had sufficient land adapted to cane
to supply the world with all the sugar
and molasses it needs. OF the 2S,G00,-
900 acres of land in the State only
100000 are now under cultivation,
In addition to cane, the rice crop
in Louisiana is something immense.
Formerly it was raised on the low
lands, but now the rice belt is CON
fined almost exclusively to the prairie
lands, which are irrigated by canals
and artesian wells. Already about
400 miles of canals have been con-
structed for this purpose, and the rice
crop this year will yield 100000
sacks.
The cotton of Louisiana is very fine
| lint, bringing on the market from
one TO two cents a pound more than
the ordinary staple. Tobacco is
new industry in the State, though
some very fine bright tobacco is being
raised.
1.-The spirit of cotton factory build
ing" concluded Mr.. Lee, lis among
the Louisiana people, and it is the
prediction of the speaker that the
next few years will see our present
number of factories increased three
| fold. And let me add that it was here
| III NOEtn NdIOlllld lIttt lIlC lpNOpIC VI
Louisiana learned the lesson of build
ing cotton mills and thus adding to
the States wealth"
THE AFTERNOON SESSION.
| The afternoon session was begun
with an address by Prof. Carey, of
| Alabama, on Live Stock Sanitation.
While endorsing all that DR.. Curtice
had said about the benefits of a strict
quarantine as preventative of Texas
fever, Prof. Carey advocated also moe
ulation of cattle exposed to the tick
with the serum of a cow having the
| fever. He added:
'For the farmer in the quarantine
| belt who wants new blood among his
cattle, wants breeding animals. ] do
not see any other method than inocu-
lation. Certainly in Alabama there
is no other way for us to get rid of
the fever, for there to undertake to
get rid of the ticks would be stu
pendous task, if in fact we could ever
accomplish it,"
Prof. Carey thought the farmers
ought to be educated as to stock, in
the farmers institutes and elsewhere
MANY of them desire to improve
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