The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-09-14
THE CATTLE TICK
OAU SEES GREAT LOSS TO THE
WESTERN FANMERs,
Fairy Cattle Not 60 B..dly 4 ffeoted
But There Is Much Toss
There. Soma Faota

Government experts recently SEN
out to Investigate the ravages of cat
tie tick report that below the quaran
tine hhere are something ever Is. OO(
600 castle, the total farm value OF
which ia e'ven by the last census as
nsarly 8l33 600 600. The dairy cat
tie ara credited With q value of about
s68. $50 900 d the othor cattle With
over Sl24 0c0 600 From observation
and experience 1t is estimated that 3
shrinkage In value Of 20 per cont II
cattle other than dairy cattle is due
dlrertly to the effsots Of the tick. In
round numbers this would m ?an a loss
OF 825, 000 600 for beef cattle.
The dairy cattle being better cares
for and to q largs extent confined ir
ots whore the tiok do not flourish O!
wen exist, suffer less damage. How
var, consid rable damage Is expert
"noed IN q great many instai cas-, es
o'c'ally In the untry, brc.us Of the
>xtra feed rcqn rcd and tne s,rink
age In bhs a., ~ OF milk c,uaed by tics
lnfestion. " is b lievcd ,hat an esti-
nate Of five per cent of the total i
le of the dairy oattlo ia not over
charging the tiok II is means an an
nual loss Of noarly SO 600 600 for dair,
cattle. Tue total depreciation O.
southern cattle on account of the tick
would be S28 600 600
Tue loss from exposure In the south
srn states IL partially due to the no
gligenc, Of tho people In regard IL
Gheir oattle. Seldom is any prov sion
made for shelter or any additiona
feed. Tho excessive loss from exp1
sure and disease In the tok Infested
states must be asoribed to the tick
Tne loss In the states with tho mos.
equable climates is greatest because
tick actively is greatest there and ths
lick season is tho longer.
The total number OF cattle that
died In the tiok. infested district dur.
Ing the year ending March 81, 1916
was about 1,250. .O0) dsath belng du
largely to exposure. This loss const;
tutes nearly SO per cent of the total
loss suffered by the whole country
and yet the tick-infssted states con.
tain barely 25 per cont OF the countr
cattle. The average value Of thes1
southern cattle, both milk and beef
breeds, may be put at 8l2, according
TO the bureau OF ststIstios; therefore
Ohe total ANNUAL loss from death In
the tiok-infested states amounted to
Sl5 200, 900. The average death rate
In quarantined states being nearly
three times as great as that in the
6iok free states, IL ia not unfair to as
sumo that two Thirds OF this loss by
death ts directly Il attributable to. the
tick, that Ia, 10000, 600.
The average value of southern oct.
tie is 81 below that Of northern cattle.
In the state Of Arkansas beef cattl:
are given farm valuo of 81 SO par
head. The cattle of Iowa are value i
at 42-almost three times as
much. If $4,000. 600 cattle Of better
blood could take tho place OF 10000,
600 scrups, the valuation Of southern
cattle wcu.o be abou. e84 900, 900 more
'han 1T Is today. The southern state.
With the tick gone, woulj s on doubl
and evan treb,e the number OF oao
tle In the northorn states
One Of the gr, ateBt bepo fl that
would follow the eradication OF the
cattle tick would be the incrcaaed
fertility Of the soil that would result
from great cAttle industry In t. c
s'uth. Instead Of exporting az nov
& foretgn ccu1tries-ovcr 100000
600 pounds OF co TIN aced mtal yea
ly, which II converted into re- W, ul
oring from SO, 900 600 to o1O, 900, ,OO(
mere than Is received for it from
abroad, 1t could be fed to cattle, and
thus would be kept at home the enor.
nous amount Of fertilizer Of which
the farms are now robbed, besides So
curing the $40 600, 900 extra value fol
the finished product. The fertilizer
saved TO the lands OF the south would
represent $40, 700. 900 In direct value
1t Is believes that, all told, the
sou6h loses annually between 3100,
600, 600 aud $500, 600, 600 through the
ravagis OF the ,i3k.