The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-30

consideration know that an embargo
on a free exchange Of the products OF
any industry is the most serious OBJ
stacle to its development, and H. is
safe to state that the present unde-
veloped condition Of the southern cat
tie industry is. TO a e great tx
tent. the result of the ravages OF the
fever tick and the attendant fedora!
quarantine restrictions. To reach the
best markets u cattle must go north
of the quarantine line, and must be
slaughtered at once or go back home
The buyers know this and pay from
IA cent to IL cent per pound less for
them than for cattle of the same
duality from north of the quarantine
line
The ten counties which have been
released from all federal quarantine
restrictions, because we have EXTERN
mated the fever ticks within their
borders, sell about s288,00O worth of
cattle annually. IL the price of these
cattle was reduced IA cent per pound
1t meant an annual loss of 1-12th Of
1888, 900, or $24, 900, which is double
the entire amount expended in exter-
m.nating the ticks in those counties.
Ill Xix WoIuS, Ill SCoIh la" S0o1A
ty in North Carolina now under quar-
antine can be freed of ticks, and as
a result exempted from federal quar-
lntine restrictions for less money than
is now lost each year solely because
of the presence Of the ticks.
Briefly stated, the methods OF ex-
termination found most applicable to
our conditions is as follows: IasDec-
tors are employed, who make a farm
to-farm canvass of the territory, with
a view to locating t~ick-infested farms,
which are at Onc ~quarantined and
the owners carefully instructed Us 20
the importance and object of the work
and especially as to the easiest and
best means Of eXterminating the ticks
on their places. The means of killing
the ticks found most practicable IN
this state is what is known as the
starvation method" All cattle
horses and mules are taken out of the
tick-infested pastures, lanes and lots
for one seasOn-that is, a new pasture.
is provided; or all cattle, horses and
mules are taken out of the pastures,
lanes or lots to be cleared of ticks, not
later than September 1st and kept out
until the following May"
Hon. J. Bryan Grimes, secretary Of
state, reports that quite a number of
entry-takers have failed to make their
annual returns and he requests that
all such returns shall be made at once
stating therefor the law in the matt
ter, as found in section 17O5, of the
revisal of 1905, which requires that
every entry taker shall make return toj
the secretary of state annually ON the,
first day of January of all lands en-
tered with him, under a penalty OF two
hundred dollars" If these returns are
not made within a few days the Sec
rotary of state will furnish to the att
torney general certificates of failure
in such cases where entry takers shall
fail to return according to the law.
Hon. James Wilson, secretary Of the,
department of agriculture, at Wash
iugton, has written a forceful letter,
to DR.. TAFT Butler. state veterinarian,
in which he says: 81 am much in
terested in your intelligent letter re-
garding your progress in exteminat-
ing the cattle tick. and I will do all
in my power to get money enough tol
help cooperate with the state in con-
Quoting effective work along the Prop
er lines to that end"
Attorney General R. D. Gilmer, left
Yesterday for Washington, where he
will present the case of the important
Selma connection, as contended for
by the North Carolina Corporation
Commission, Hon. F. A. Woodward,
appearing for that body. The involve
ment is reckoned a vital one. and will
be followed closely, affecting the in
ests Of so many travellers in that Sec
ton near the Atlantic Coast Line road.
1t is not known definitely when the
case will be heard as there is the
possibility of failure to reach it until
after recess.
The school book question is again
about to be on the stir. A number
of the officers of state and those who
state-wise are already making a study
of text books, in view of the expiration
of the present contract for books for
five years until July 1, 1906. The sub
commission will meet in June. after
appointment by the governor, and the
text book commission will meet Ill
July, the state board Of education con-
shutting this last named commission.
This decision will be announced in
time for the publisher chosen to have
their books in readiness by the open
ing of the schools.
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