Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-07-03
TILK ERADICATION RESUMED.

The Bureau of Animal Industry OF
the United States Department of Agri-
culture is resuming active operations
for the eradication of the cattle ticks
which prevail in the southern part of
the country and transmit the contagion
of Texas fever of cattle. Its men are
being sent into the field and prepara-
tions are being made to push the work
OF determination vigorously during the
warm weather, when the ticks are
most active.
Since this work was begun, two years
ago, an area of about $1,000 square
miles, or almost the size of the State of
Georgia, has been freed from the ticks.
AS result the quarantine on southern
cattle has been either modified or en-
tirely removed from this area. Last
year work was done to greater or less
extent in the States of Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Ala
bama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri,
Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Tex
as, and California, and it is proposed
this year to continue in the same States
with the addition of a small portion of
Mississippi. Most of the work has
been and will continue to be done in
stations contiguous to the quarantine
line, the object being to push the line
farther south from year to year; but en-
couragement is given to local work in
any part of the quarantined district in
the assurance that when any consider
able area is rendered tick free it will be
released from quarantine.
The work is being done by corpora
ton between the Federal Government
and the State and local authorities.
Congress has appropriated $780, for
the year beginning July 1, and it is ex-
pected that the States and counties
where the work is carried on will du-
plicate this sum. The committee on
appropriations of the House of Repres-
entatives expressed itself very very
strongly to the effect that the States
should bear a reasonable share to the
cost and that the Federal work should
be mainly confined to States where CO.
operation is received.
Various methods for eXterminating
the ticks are used, including transferr-
ing the cattle from pasture to pasture
at suitable intervals, and dipping,
spraying, and hand dressing the cattle
with oil and oil emulsion. In sections
where there are large herds and large
ranches dipping on a large scale is
practiced, either alone or in connection
with pasture rotation, while in other
sections, where the cattle on some farms
frequently consist only of a COW or an
OK team, hand dressing with oil is
found to be the only practicable meth
cd.
The damage caused by the ticks and
the benefits to follow from their eradica-
ton are not generally appreciated. 1t
is estimatrd that the TeXas-fever tick
is responsible for about $40,OOO,0OO of
loss annually to the people of the in
fected country, and that it also lowers
the assets of the South by an addition
al 1923, $50, 900, making the enormous
aggregate of $63, 25O,OOO. To wipe out
this heavy loss is the object of the work
now under way, and the results al
ready accomplished leave no doubt that
success is possible, though number
of years will be required for the COM
pletion of the undertaking. Much de-
pends upon the cattle owners, who can
either hasten or retard progress accord
ing as they cooperate or refuse to assist
in the work.
Literature giving full information as
to the ticks, the disease which they
transmit, and methods for their eradica-
ton has been issued by the Department
of Agriculture and will be supplied free
of charge on application to the Chief of
the Bureau of Animal Industry,
Washington, d. G.
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