The Tupelo journal., 1908-02-28
FARMER AND
PLANTER
CATTLE TICKS DISAPPEARING.
Experts are Slowly Driving Them out
Of the South.

Experts are Slowly Driving Them out
Of the South.
The work Of Graduating the fever
tick In the infested area was not UNI
dertaken by the Federal Government
until July !, 1906, yet as a result there
have been released from quarantine
certain areas in Virginia, North Caro-
lima, Tennessee, Kentucky, Texas and
California, amounting approximately
to 10000 square miles. twenty coun-
ties previously in quarantine have
been admitted to provisional quaran-
tine and good Roadway has been made
In still other areas. During the last
fiscal year the worx has been pursued
in cooperation with State authorities
in the States above named. and in
Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri,
Louisiana and Oklahoma. 1t has In
cluded 1,934,48S inspections of cattle,
639,674 of which were re~-inspected,
thus indicating the inspection OF L.
1874, S14 individual cattle, these COM
posing 1856 separate herds. Various
approved methods for the eradication
of ticks nave been used, including pas
ture rotation and dipping, spraying
and hand dressing with oil and oil
emulsion.
The number CT cattle moved from
the area quarantined for Southern
fever to Northern markets during the
guarantee season of 1906 was 1,00G,-
629, shipped in 36,213 cars. These cat
tie were all for immediate slaughter
and were handled under the super
vision and regulations of the Depart
ment of Agriculture at Washington.
There were also inspected in the pro-
visional quarantine areas of Texas
and Oklahoma 1876, 23S head of cattle,
which were permitted to be moved
North for purposes other han imme-
date slaughter. Supervision was
ercised over 1892 clippings in crude
petroleum, and over the cleaning and
disinfection of $685. cars.
There is much satisfaction express
ed over the work of the. Federal au-
thorities in Texas during the last year
in dealing with the tick problem, and
1t is hoped thai during the next year
much more favorable results may be
obtained through the hearty co-opera-
ton of all the ranchmen who are in
terested in this veg important propo-
sition. While there has been more or
less cooperation during the last year,
better results could have been obtain
ed if all the cattlemen in the interest
ed trrritory had fallen into line, and
during the coming year every possible
effort will be made to get them into
line.
The Federal people, who are CO.
operating with the State officials in an
effort to solve the tick problem are
hopeful that as the excellent results
OF the work being done become clear
ly apparent, there will be a general
revival of interest among all cattle
men in the infested territory, which
will be sufficient to insure determina-
ton to carry on the work until all the
ticks are wiped out. There are no
ranchmen operating in the infested
territory who are not fully conversant
with the evil effects of tick domino
ton. The losses that occur from the
presence Of the ticks every year
would be far more than sufficient to
pay the total cost of eradication, but
the work Of educating the ranchmen
up to their duties in the premises has
been a slow and laborious process
Texas Stockman Journal.