The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-11-27
Live Stock.
LIVE STOCK SANITATION.

just before leaving North caro-
lima, DIR. Cooper Curtice, our efficient
State Veterinarian, delivered an adj
dress on the above subject before a
meeting of leading agriculturists 1t
was a thoughtful address, carefully
prepared and timely, and was lis
tened with great interest by those
present. We clip the following re-
port of it from the Raleigh News
and Observer:
DIR. Curtice first recounted the
various diseases that seriously affect
the live stock industry of the South.
In horses and beasts of burden,
glanders-a disease that spreads rap
idly and may be communicated to
man.
In swine, cholera-a contagious
disease that's fatal.
In poultry, cholera-a disease that
decreases the poultry industry by
One-tenth.
Because of disease and dogs there
is in this State but a trace of the
sheep industry, and that, too, when
the State is admirably adapted to
sheep raising.
1.-The other remaining part of our
live stock industry is cattle; and
with this, as it is our chief industry,
[ wish today principally to deal"
DR.. Curtice then went on to point
out the fact that though the South
has better pastures, better water,
better climate and better facilities
every way than other sections of the
country for raising cattle, u cattle
have only about three-ffths the value
of the Northern and Western
product.
The speaker then inquired why
this was, and answered by saying
that the trouble was one that can be
remedied-disease This disease, he
said, was Texas or tick fever, which
is found only in the temperate eli
mates. He then produced maps
showing the United States quaran-
tine line, north of which no cattle
may be driven except for immediate
slaughter.
MEANING OF THE QUARANTINE.
This" he said, means that no
mich COWS from the South can be
sold in the North, except Tor beef. It
means that even the beef of the
South must be sold cheap because it
cannot, when shipped, be held for
higher prices, but must ut once be
slaughtered. Take the case of Hen
derson county in this State. With
in the past year it was transferred
across the quarantine line, and, as d
result the cattlemen have received
two cents Il pound more for their
beef.
In North Carolina there are six
teen COuntics-all in the mountains
where the ticks are killed every
winter-that are north of the quar-
antine line. This year we hope to
add three others to this list-Burke,
Caldwell and Wilkes.
LAS soon as the farmers and cat
tlemen of a county get rid of the
ticks and agree to abide by the quar-
antine laws and cooperate with the
Department of Agriculture in it's
effort to maintain these laws we ask
the United States Government to
exempt that county. The quarantine
line car only be maintained by the
sentiment of the community through
which it 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 hav-
ing them shot and himself indicted"
DR.. Curtice then discussed advan-
tage of stock law owe free range
grazing in the suppression of ticks,
alleging that 95 per cent. of the cat
tie in stock law territory are free
from ticks, while nearly all the seri-
Gus outbreaks of fever come from
cattle grazing in free range districts.
He gave d number of instances of
this, the most recent being at Tar
bOrO, where an outbreak of fever
was caused by cattlemen from Mar
tin county, free range section.
There is" added DIR. Curtice, mo
more important legislation than that
the State should put a quarantine
line around the free range sections.
This, perhaps, more than anything