The log cabin Democrat., 1912-10-15
SLOAN ISSUES
 REPORT 10 GOV.
MECCA FOR INCONSISTENCIES
SAYS ARKANSAS NEEDS PEO- PILE OF GOOD STANDING, IN
 DUSTRY AND THRIFT.
BY CLIO HARPER. ]

Llttle ROCK, Oct. l5.-"A rkanSaS needs all the people of good moral standing, industry and thrift it can get, to develop it's conceded wonderful natural resources. 1t needs as much or more capital tha nthe immigrant brings.
 This is an emphatic declaration by Hon. Clay Sloan, agricultural commits sioner, in his biennial report to the governor And he further asserts that Arkansas has within the last five years become the mecca for many peo- pie seeking better lands and more rain fall than is found in the arid west and better climate than is found in the crowded and completed east"
 The necessity of appealing to this better class of immigrants is accentu- ated by the commissioner, who advises that the state should undertake a more thorough system of exploitation. He recommends the periodical gathering of agricultural, social and industrial statistics by the county assessors, to be tabulated and published, and sent out = nswer to questions from those seek l1g homes in Arkansas.
 He also recommends that more sys- tematic effort be made to collect rep resentatve exhibits for state, district and county fairs. He recommends that an exhibit hall be provided on the first floor of then capitol, sufficient ly large to give each county five to 10 feet of wall space and an equal floor space. Here should be shown topo- graphical map of the county, with ex- hibits of it's mineral, agricultural and industrial products. and supply of descriptive literature.
 Il take it, says he, that many more men would come to Arkansas and in- spect this display with it's full, detail ed information as to each county than now come when their only plan of in specting the state is to travel over it, doubtful always as to whether they are visiting the locality that would suit them best" He thinks that if the state will furnish the hall, county pride will make and keep the display.
 Commissioner Sloan estimates that the farmers annually lose a tremend- ous amount through the infestation of the Texas fever tick. We must drive the tick out of Arkansas" he said, "and get the whole state north of the quarantine line. Sections of the state that have no tick, if south of the line, are harmed to no little degree. When cattle are shipped to market from south of the line, even though they never knew the bite of the tick, they are counted as tick cattle and sell from one-half to one cent less per pound on that account, an average of about $4 per head. If We were to ship to St. Louis or Chicago the 100000 head of cattle now in Arkansas below the quar- antine line, we would realize $2,000,000 less for them than if they had been shipped from any point above the line. The S2,000,000 would kill every tick in Arkansas and create some conster- nation among the chiggers Ten per cent of that amount would put us above the line.
 You don't have to have the tick really, and in fact. to be harmed by it. You only have to be south of the line. You cant sell your cattle while they are fat on the cheap feed of summer and fall grasses, they can be shipped only in late winter, when they are poor, after the quarantine is raised. Let's move up above the line, where every day is a sale day, and We will have buyers for the calf as we'll as for the big beef steer.
 "The U. s. department of agricul- ture computes that Arkansas lost eight per cent of it's cattle last year by dis eases of all kinds, while Minnesota, Wisconsin, Kansas and other northern states. even with their long severe win ters and terrible blizzards, lost only two per cent. Ticks cut the milk of cows 24 per cent on the same feed. You cannot improve your cattle stock. The ticks will kill the better breeds if you introduce them. The blooded stock in- troduced is killed without exception.
 "The general assembly should form the state into districts, levy five cents per head for each district, kill the tick, SOW our uplands in Japan clover, Der muda grass, white clover and orchard grass and put cattle on our thousand hills. Cultivated crops will ruin our rolling lands by washing. Grasses will feed the cattle. Refuse from cattle spread upon the cropped fields will make fine corn yields, and cotton seed meal for fattening cattle for the fine prices in the market. Fine breeds, fine grasses and fine feed with which to fatten, will make the finest cattle in the vor)0."