The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1909-09-16
Farmers Round Up Institute
Held at Mississippi A. s
NJ. College.
Continued From Last Week,

NJ. College.
Continued From Last Week.
DR.. TAFT Butler, Editor of tn
Southern Farm Gazette, and on
of the recognized authorities of th
country on the subject of tic
eradication, talked along the follow
ing lines:
The ticks will surely be driver
out of the state. 1t is large AM
difficult task, but they will surel.
go. To be convinced of this W.
have only to consider the damage
they do and then study the habits
of the tick and see how easy it |!
to eradicate them from single
farm. If they only sucked the
blood and irritated the skin of their
victims that would be sufficient
cause for their eradication. IT they
only killed the cattle they do by
tick fever that would pay for their
eradication. If they only caused
the quarantine which the U. 5.
Government has imposed because
of them and which lowers the price
of our cattle from one-fourth to
one-half cent per pound this would
justify the expense of eradication.
But when they do all these, we can
feel certain that they will have to
go.
Professor Archibald Smith, of
the Department of Animal Hus-
bandry aroused enthusiasm of
those present by his able discussion
of the tick problem. He said in
substance that the most important
problem in agriculture in this state
at the present time is the eradica-
ton of the cattle tick, which for
so many years has been the great
drawback to the cattle industry.
Live stock is the basis of successful
agriculture in every country, and
the first work of the Live Stock As
ISOLATION is to remove every obsta-
Gle that prevents the most profitable
development of this great industry
The rapid invasion of the boil vice.
vii, which necessitates the growth
of other crops. and the general
tendency of the farmers to diversity
their crops, makes the eradication
of the tick of the greatest impor-
tance at the present time.
The function of live stock on the
farm is to furnish home market
for the crops that are grown enabl-
ing the farmer to convert his cheap
raw material into higher priced
products and return to the soil the
fertility that is taken from it. The
cattle tick has had the effect of de-
creasing the number of cattle in
the state, lowering the price and
lessening the profits of feeding and
raising them.
The first work of this Associa-
tion was to secure the creation of
a Live Stock Sanitary Board with
authority and means to control and
exterminate all animal diseases,
and as result of the efforts Of
this Board, with the small amount |
of money appropriated for their
use, they have succeeded in exter-
minating the ticks from FIVE coun-
ties in the state and will have them
placed above the national quaran-
tine at the end of this season,
increasing the value of the
cattle in these counties over $Io5,-l
BOO annually.
Professor J. A. Mclean. Station
Animal Husbandryman at the Col
lege. said in substance, in each
county of this state we spend an
nually from ten thousand to $3.50,
BOO for mules 10 do our work. We
are not producing anywhere near
the number of mules needed IN our
What mules we do
produce are on the average of the
lowest class. They are spindel-leg-
ged, light-bodied, 100 to 1000
pound cotton mules, worth about
one hundred and fifty dollars when
four years old. Now, we must
raise more mules and better mules.
This state should not only raise
enough mules to satisfy all her
home market but should have
large number to sell to other mar |
Gets. We should be exporters and
uot importers OF mules.