The log cabin Democrat., 1910-03-08
EXPERIMENTING THE TICK.

Batesville Guard of March 5:
 "The district office of the United States bureau of animal industry has
 been removed from Newport to Little
 Rock. Dr. A. E. Wright is in charge
 of this department in Arkansas,
 Louisiana and central Missouri. pr.
 Wright says there has been consider
 able progress made in the eradlca-
 ton of Texas fever in six counties
 in the northeastern part of the state,
 and he attributes this progress, to a
 large extent, to the cooperation of
 farmers who have given the bureau
 their assistance. The boundary line, when the tick has been eradicated from the counties embraced in the northeastern district, will be removed to the Arkansas river, and since this is natural boundary it will then be unnecessary to employ boundary rid CTS. At present the quarantine line extends along the northern part of Arkansas now, through Tennessee and
 Oklahoma and the northern part of | Texas. It is impossible where the tick | has not been eradicated successfully to bring in northern cattle, as they | fall victims to Texas fever. The tick | is not known in the north, except in sporadic cases, caused by southern cattle mingling with northern cattle.
 With the intelligent help of the farmers of this section the tick could be eradicated in from three to five years, says Dr. Wright, but unless the farmers lend assistance it will take twenty years to clean out Mis- sissippi, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklaho- ma and Arkansas. The eradication of the tick will increase the value of southern cattle in the northern mar kets $5 head"
 This is true. And the Guard might have gone further and said that through the efforts of the state and United States government thirteen counties in northern Arkansas have | during the past year been placed | above the cattle quarantine line. The | Guard might have said that in these | 20 600 head of cattle to the county 1 that an increase of $5 per head rep resented S1,300,000 added to the wealth of the stock-raisers of north Arkansas. The Guard might nave said that if Governor Donaghey had vetoed an item of SIC, ,000 for the eX- termination of the fever-bearing tick, this million and third dollars would have been lost to north Arkansas, for the United States government would not have added another $10,000 and assisted in the work if the state had appropriated nothing. And yet for the past two months the Guard has been echoing the sense less effort of one c. c. Kavanaugh to ridicule this appropriation and to say that he, if he had been governor, would have vetoed this appropriation and would have given tito the state charitable nstitutions-where it | would have been spent in Little Rock. This $1O,000 would have increased the money appropriated for each child in the charitable institutions from about $466 to about S4S2; it would have made possible two or more fat jobs and the states wards would have been no better cared for than they are to- day. Invested as it was it has brought the state a return of 13,000 per cent in one year on the amount appropriat- ed, and considerable portion of the money is still unexpended.
 But the cattle tick" appropriation
 is fair specimen of the Kavanaugh statesmanship and is presented by him as one of the strongest arguments why the people of Arkansas should elect him governor.
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