The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-07-03
WAR on THE CATTLE TICK
Appropriation OF $3.50, 900 to South

EDITOR ABERDEEN WEEKLY
Because all honest, elearrninded
men always wish to know the exact
truth whether they relish it or not.
and because the United States gov
eminent is beginning a crusade and
warfare on the cattle ticks, which
alone carry, transmit and scatter
the germs Of the contagion among
domestic cattle, known as the sple-
netic or Texas fever, | am led 10
write this letter for the information
Of its readers a To what the govern
ment is doing and proposing to do.
That we should be- greatly aroused
on the subject is no wonder when
wc come to know the government
has learned, as the result OF a most
thorough and painstaking investi-
cation ON the part Of the most care
ful experts Of the Bureau Of Animal
Industry, that the yearly loss, and
cost, and worse than useless waste
which falls ON the tick-infected
States of the south, is no less than
the enormous sum Of one hundred
million dollars And the share each
year which Mississippi is saddled
with mounts into the millions. And
SO Congress. urged thereto 10y the
Southern Senators and Representa-
tIyes, has Just passed an appr0pria-
ton of $3.50, 000-SIOO, 900 more
than last year-to aid the Southern
people 10 stamp out and utterly ex-
terpate the cattle ticks The APP
preparation is pure gratuity. Tn
Gle sam does not propose, alone,
and unaided, to do the work, while
the mass Of the beneficiaries, the
cattle owners, look on in sheer in
difference, or perhaps to find fault
and criticize. No. 1t is to aid those
who wish to help themselves. 1t is
70 help the people who are cursed
hy the ticks in their fight against
the costly nuisance If the people
wish to keep the ticks they can do
so. But q sharp and stringent quar-
antine viii be kept on them to pre-
vent the further spread of the pesti-
lence In time all viii bee Of one
mind, and in favor Of the entire
eXterpatiOn Of the fever ticks. But
In every case when a great evil is 10
be eradiCated it is manifest that two
things must be done First, to find
out the real cause, and next, to find
and get a sure and complete cure
and remedy. 1t has been demon
strated by a most careful inyestiga-
ton, made by skillful experts Of the
Bureau Of Animal Industry. that
the Texas cattle tick is as surely
contagious disease among animals
as is the smallpox or measles among
the human family And a sure and
certain and positive cure and rene.
dy for the contagious disorder has
been found and proven, which can
be stated i'm three words, viz: grease /
and quarantine Yes, grease and /
oily grease, such as bacon grease, /
rancid butter, cotton seed OIL or
crude petrOieum-or amy other oily
grease-will surely kill all the ticks /.
on any ccw which it is made to +
cover. 1t has been tried thousands .
of times and has never once failed. .
1t is also certain that it won kill F..
any ticks which it does not reach .
and cover. 1t must therefore reach .
and cover all the ticks on the body +
Of the COW or steer or 1T viii not kin I
them. If it is made to DO so it will
kill every one in few minutes. 80
much for live ticks on live cattle.
Quarantine when rgidly and hon
estIy and fully enforced Will prevent
the spread Of the disease. Tick-in-
tested cattle must not run at large
Or they Will continually infect other
cattle They viii spread the dis
ease, because it is an established
and indisputablc fact that the real
and only cause Of the contagion is
germ which the social
ed fever tick alone carries, trans
nits and scatters. Hence the max ]
m is, No ticks, no fever.
Next, all cattle must be kept off /
ii tick-infected grounds and past I
Tres for a time long enough for all
he eggs which the female ticks have I
ain ON the ground, to hatch out,
md starve TO death, because their {
,uly food is COW blood. The female
icks, filled with from 1900 to 5000 5
ggs, always falls off and LAYS them [
N the ground-and never on the {
ow or steer. If all cattle are rig {
dly kept off infected grounds they j
-ill not get infected, and all the :
icks on the ground will starve to |
eath-and this in a short time.
Here, Mr.. Editor, Is the entire a
cheme, plan and philosophy of tick =
radication, and it is complete and /
Elective. XIII the ticks on the live I
attic by the honest application Of 4
ny oily grease, and prevent their !.
lrther spread and scattering by Il
gid quarantine, and starve them ?
} death on infected pastures by the i
lme quarantine laws. n
This is the whole matter in a nut u
lel. Congress, recognizing all the II
-cts, have passed severe, stringent
I'd drastic laws to aid the people
get rid of the ticks, but they all
an active cooperation
! the part of all State and local !.
lthorities-and especially Of all K
title owners and good citizens. The ii
parate infected States have passed N
VS., more or less drastic and eff -
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