The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-11

die.. but are only rendered well-ngh or completely worthless. And then the in- mense deterioration In our stock of south ern cattle which Is continually going on
 and Is fast reducing our herds of south- ern cattle into a race of runts and scrubs. Then, too, the immense loss of milk and
 butter from the 75,000 southern milch cows, and allowing only one quart per day for each COW it makes a daily az gregate of 750,000 quarts, and this multi piled by 300 is the yearly aggregate in the loss Of milk in quantity. But the loss in quality is equally important, for no COW infected with fever ticks can give milk lit for human use. It often kills. In Kentucky 1t is crime to sell such milk It should be, and yet will be everywhere
 Ana then the extra cost of inspection and the higher freight rates, and the costly delays Incident to an iron quaran- the.
 But there is one great loss which the very dullest must understand. And that IS the great shrinkage in every great market of all southern cattle. It is a 1act that all southern cattle, owing to the prevalence of the ticks, are, in all the great markets which fix the price, under suspicion and under the ban. They can only be received into great placarded cattle pens, and can only thence be sold Tor immediate slaughter. And this does emphatically slaughter the price of all such cattle. Now only cattle inspected and found clean can be sold at all And the result is q great fall off in the price or all cattle In all the tick-infected states. But how great is this loss? We'll, the experience of the farmers of Ten nessee tells the whole story. In Ten nessee the work of tick eradication is far Jxrrr n q about dozen are now absolutely tick free. In the tick free counties beef cat tie bring now and today from cents to 6la cents per poundfi live weight, while in the tick-infected counties just such cat tie bring only from to 21a cents per pound. And so on runt of steer which will only weigh 300 pounds, horns. hoofs, hide and all there Is a loss of fully $15. If 1t were a 1500-pounder the loss would be fully $45. Now add together all these losses and it will be seen at once that the estimate of the secretary Is clearly within tho truth.
 The Remedy--But is there any sure and certain remedy? Yes. certainly. And the remedy which has in two years cleared 72.000 square miles of these ticks can be stated in five words, viz Oily grease and local quarantine. Yes, any oily grease whatever will surely and hili tLIly dilu tlCkS u WHiCli 1t is applied, and which 1t is really made to reach and to cover. There Is no ques- ton about this. And local quarantine will in few months clear all pastures which are tick-infected. Why? Because all female ticks about to eject their myriad esgs-15oo to 5000 for each female will always fall off the COW and steer and lay them on the ground. Then they will hatch in from 13 days to six weeks. and scores of ticks will so fall off, and thousands will SO be matched. Their food is naturally cattle blood. They will lie in wait. And when a fresh victim comes along they will crawl upon 1t by hum dreds. They will get down to the skin and there bite and bore, and suck blood, and grow and breed again. And, mean time. and every time. they will bite Into the animal the germs of tho Texas fever. And now absolutely keep all cattle off an infected field or pasture for time enough to let all the eggs hatch out and A few weeks longer. and all those ticks will and must starve to death. Here. then, is the remedy, viz: Grease and local quarantinel They make & perfect cure. And now Uncle Sam is taking a hand. The secretary is ready and willing to