The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-05-15

The Advantages Of it to T..
m is Pointed Out
A Map Showing The Free Rargs .,s =,
Law Territories federal and ST..
Quarantine Line.

The North Carolina D,n.r,m
Agriculture has just issued
tin on "Regulations for .t "
of Contagious Diseases Of Ta..
by DR.. Cooper Curtice. Star.
rian. 1t IS a pamphlet of
containing official notices ...
State stock-law map.
The map is a valuable or.
accurate. showing by color, ri.
law or free range di>tr.c,,
%no-fence or stock-laW district
the United States and NORTH
lima cattle quarantine line t.u
\ glance at the map vii, SHAW.
from modest beginning. maa.
IA local option law about
of century ago in the l.rfr...
Mecklenburg and Cabarrw> ...
the stOcklaw mas spread m+n
cupieS more than half Of mn.
bic areas of the State. THE -
it does not occupy are for rh.
part either heavily timberpa ma...
lands or the pine barrru~ az
southeast. or the pOcoSiu and
districts Of the east. Even
monntains there are counties NIL.
the cattle are kept in pa>t.r-
although they have nor at+.
adopted stocklaw. their coudrt.or
about the same as though they
This is the case in -AShe. \.aaf
and part Of Wautauga counties
Explaining and commenrina
this map, DR.. Curtice says:
"One mountainous county ea..
the Blue Ridge is free range. and
counties. excepting Polk. borarrr
il. have a strip OF free range r..,
the Blue Ridge. The harmfuI rr..
that these areas have m perpprna,
ticks and keeping the foot-hltI o.r
ties in quarantine do not romnpn-,.
those counties for the ADVANTAGE ..
rived from the free paSturagp Wherein
They should be abolished.
With the adoption OF ~tockIau ,.
the foot-hill counties and their 0.
infection and an eastward SER,
I'VE of the quarantine line. there M
be no danger 50 far as tick infection
is concerned in continuing the n,a
range of the mountains. The climate
therein has always eNterminarr. Ri.
ticks under the most adverse nona.
tons. There is. however. a 4uW.
ing disposition in the mountains .
adopt stocklaW. and take better rn
of cattle. and increase their improve
stock and p~aSturage. The day is a.
far distant when large districts U
be added to the already large Area
in the mOntains.
The cutting off of large areas tru
the free range in Nash. Wilson. john
ston and Wayne counties, abroad
shows that the time is nor far 0,~tM
when that NOW nearly isolated SIRE
will have entirely disappeared. Ia
recent action of Chatham county
its adoption of StCckIaW for h who.
township. the isolated areas i'm Nu0"
Cumberland and Iiarnett counties
wei as recent meetings held to o".
slider the adoption of stocAIaN In 81
rlOuS districts. are very ta}or".
signs pointing 10 the adoption .
stocklaw in that region which .~ r'.
now almost separated from the r-
ern free range by a ~tockIaW te.'.
The adoption OF StorkIaW Is .
gued against by some on account #
the expense to the region aIoN'.-
of the fence to be made. .\n r%..
nation Of the map shows rIa' .-
than twenty miles OF fence 1885,.
completely cut off the Ni.~o. MS
1rict, would all the adjoining "
ties agree to it. This mileage.
contrast to that now uunrrr~-
kept up. is unimportant. The -lr
er part OF the district is @.,'".
fenced.
Less than twenty miles Of .r..
would cut off the Noorr-IIar.o
county area. and permit the "~
hundreds of miles OF teuc.#- .
kept up at great eNpen~-. .".
enclosure Of pastures i'm N>hI"# "".
and hogs can be and vii. ht "..
fed than now. In addition. '."
pense now entaiied by fences. r..
turned into buildings and ur#e"
manent Improvement.
While the adoption OF -r"....
the entire State viii NOT ~,.." ."
allied. the writer can u.' .
from pointing out that i'~ ".
would be a great blessing To- @..
range counties and a prot~-[" .
the live stock OF the resi- W
State from communicate o.~e"-
may here be pointed ont th.. II"
IS surely coming when al. r."
Stocklaw counties will be a.."#r.
traffic in cattle with all u
the world. At that time. ..
fore. all intercourse 10y ~r"s.
and cattle traffic betWet" 1871.
range infected by cattle r.D-
Stocklaw counties. will b."
and the chief markets OF '.-
Tor beef cattle in this ~+..
OF. The future of the live
dustry of this State for Ssh"
be aided by the Adoption '.
stock laws.
That such action i le-.| 4
just Is at one appare"- .
menace and loss to The .
the State by cattle ticks
cholera. neither of which ".
strained under present r
considered"