The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-13
live STOCK SANITARY
BOARD SENDS PETITION


enact a law authorizing the county
boards Of supervisors to appropriate
funds to assist the Live Stock Sanitary
Board in this work"
These resolutions we're not passed
without full discussion and mature
elaboration. They represent the
opinions of highly 'ntelliseu. and in
fiuential body of the States leading
citizens. For the live stock breeders
always represent the most intelligent
and advanced Of the agricultural pop.
ulation.
AS the officers representing the
membership of the Missss. ppi Live
Sock and Dairy Association, as c.ti-
zens deeply interested in the develop.
ment of the live stock industry of the
State, and as having a large exper-
fence in the successful efforts which
have been made toward the eradica.
ton of the cattle tick we wish espec-
tally to call your careful consideration
of the following well es ablished
facts:
1. 1t is q we'll established fact that
the loss of cattle from the ticks is
such a burden to the cattle industry
that successful cattle raising is ex-
tremely difficult If not impossible, un-
til the ticks shall have been eradi-
Gated.
2. The cattle ticks cost Mississippi
each year. even though our cattle in
dustry is limited and undeveloped,
several times the amount asked for
by the stock breeders of the state to
continue the work of tick eradication
which has been so well started
through the appropriation Of the last
Legislature.
8. These losses caused by the cat
tie tick result from the death Of thou
sands Of cattle each year by tick fevel
tie s fever, Bloody Murrain, etc.
the germs of which are a'one trans
mitted by the tick; by the re ardina
Of growth and a lessening of mill
production resulting from the irrita
tion of the skin and large quantitie.
of blood sucked by the ticks. and b.
depreciating in price of not less thai
from one quarter to one cent pei
pound on every animal in the State
This depreciation in price is because
J of the restriction placed on the move
ment and marketing of our cattle BY
| the Federal Government on accoun
J of the presence of the ticks on oul
cattle.
, 4. Any one of these three losses re
sulting directly from the presence o
, the ticks is sufficient to justify tn,
cost and trouble of eradicating tn,
cattle tick even if the other two losse
did not exist.
. 5. These losses sustained from IT,
, presence Of the cat lie tick during an
, two years If saved and applied t,
, measures proved to be effectual woul
, completely eradicate the cattle ii *
from the state.
II 6. Cattle raising is the basis of tn
live stock industry for our cheap Ian
and live stock husbandry is essentia
2 10 any permanently successful sys
!. tenn of agriculture. With the comm
h. of the boil weevil, cattle raising be
comes doubly important to the farm
q ers of Mississippi, but successful ca
o tie raising is practically impossible /
the presence of the c.t,le tick.
Z. F.om personal experience, an
d from what has Deen done by the Sat
/, 4. F d raj Go e nmen.s we stat
4 with positive assur ance that it has a
|. ready been thoroughly establish
, hat tt e cattle tick can be eradicated
> that the cost of Graduating the tick
v not q eater than the losses caused b
7. their presence during any two year
. s. 1t pays to Grad cae the ii X
d from herd, township, a county {
!. state and when any territory is one
' free of tics it IS ly kept SO {
3. practically 10 expense. This,Xp !,
d tick er st'c ton has tee- rrov.a ~
sby fiRsiSle and it pays end pays we l.
9. In view Of the preva ence of
cholera and anthrax in the state.
and inasmuch as these diseases en-
age controlled aud proven ed by vacci
ers ton. we deem it Of the greatest
ose portapce tlat the live stock SAINT
bard be provided with suffici
9Th funds to deal with this matter
fecively, thus preventing the spr,