Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-07-22
For the Greene County Herald

which is known to science as MAR
G ANOPUS ANNULATUS. And
these poisonous bearing ticks have
alone been carried and scattered all
over and all through the south, from
Mexico to Maryland by the careless
of tick infected cattle, and
by suffering such cattle to
freely run at large and in no other
way in the world. Such is the stern
verdict of true and exact science.
TIE GREAT YEARLY COST.
But the immense yearly loss and
waste is a matter of great and appal-
ling Importance The Hon. james
Wilson, our really great Secretary of
agriculture, estimates that the year
~ loss and cost is not less, on the
average of 50. 90 for each of the 20,
600, 900 head of the horned cattle
now owned in the entire South. And
tins makes mighty aggregate of
500, 600, 900 for each year. This is
an enormous and appalling sum. How
can IT. be proven? How can it be
possibly true?
Well first there really is the cash
value of all the cattle which do each
year lie down and die from the wide
spread pcstileuce, and this loss goes
every year into the millions, and next
there is the loss from II still greater
number of cattle which do not actual
die, but are only rendered worthless
by the fell disease. And this too, in
the South amounts 20 many millions.
Ang again there is the great and
ever growing deterioration in the
stock of Southern cattle, a loss
which is reducing our southern herds
into d mere race of scrubs and stunts
And there is the imlnans~ loss of
milk and butter from 100, l0J south
ern milk COWS. Do the people con-
pretend it? Estimate this loss at
the low average of one quart for each
COW for d day. and we my" IL daily
loss OF $50, 600 quarts of milk, now
multiply this by 800, tue number Of
days o COW should give milk in Il year
and we have the enormous aggre-
gate Of 225, 600, 900 quarts in IL year.
which is worse than wasted and
thrown away. And This vast aggre-
gate is easily worth SO, 900, 600.
But then in our great loss which
Overtops any other loss; and this is
very great fall off and shrinkage Of
the sale price of all southern cattle.
The cold fact is that in all the great
markets, owing to the prevalence of
ticks aud Texas fever, all southern
bred cattle in all the great markets,
are now under suspicion and under
the ban.
They can only be received into
great placarded cattle ppns-aud can
thence only be sold for immediate
slaughter And this fact does abso-
lutely slaughter the price of all cattle
not only for those that can stand in
spection. For those which Cal not
stand rigid inspection cIn not be sold
at ALL aud thus shuts Thousands on
thousands OF SJut lrin cLltts Uut of
any market, and The reH:x result is
that ut home, all over the ) JuSh the
price OF cattle Is Seut down to the
lowest figures Bat how greet is
the loss? Well, tie experience of
Tennessee tells the Whole story.
Now, Tennessee is far advamc d in
cattle tick Grad cation r'uuy 81
counties are entirely free from ticks;
and IN these counties tue prIce Of
cattle now aud today, is from 5 CENTS
to 81 cents per pound, live weight
While in the lex infected and still
guaranteed co mites re price. now
and today is only from to 2! cents
per pound, live weight. Here is ID
dead loss Of at cast 3 Genus per
poun live weight; anI 81 .i.c loss
on u scrub Steer, wnlcn VIII only
weigh 800 pounds, hide, horns, hoofs
and ALL is fully SO 100 Ii it were u
1900 FOUNDER the loss would be fully
$40, 0;-and there are still many
other losses. But 4lI ;tIl the losses
together and we see dit once tuat the
Secretary > estimate is d sound Que,
safe one and one sadly too true.
THE kennedy.
But now is there any sale and sure
and safe remedy? Yes, indeed, and
the remedy which in two Vars has
utterly cleaned more than 50 600
so udf0 ulll6S Ol SOutuef TERRITORY
from the tick evil will, if honestly
and rigidiy applied, fully clear,
Greene County and ali Mississippi.
from this tick pestilence. And the
remedy is simply any oily grease.
coupled with rigid local quarantine
Yes any oily grease whatever will
surely kill any and Ill ticks on COW,
calf, or steer to which it is honestly
applied and made to reach and to
Cover. AID local quarantine, by
keeping all cattle off from tick infect
ed grounds and pastures. for a few
months, will kill by starvation all in
fecting ticks on the ground, They
must have cattle blood or starve to
death. Now let US kill all ticks by
grease, and by starvation, and we