The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-20
S4O,OOO,OOO LOST
ANNUALLY BY TICK
YOungblO0d Interests Cal
h0un in Eradication
LAND VALUES GROW
LAND VALUES GROW
Death Rate in State From Cattle Tick
Appalling-Tax Collections Are
: Coming in Slowly at
Admission

Admission, November 9.-tSpecial) THAT
| the southern states lose 100000 annually
| by reason of the death of cattle infected
| by the tick. not counting the value of by
products is the statement of Col William
Youngblood. who is in Calhoun county
comforting with the farmers. public Of
| ficials and publicists in the hope of Gre
ating sentiment against the tick in this
county and arousing the people to adopt
mea sures for its eradication.
| Why there exists prejudice against
this work, for the promotion of which
the government is appropriating $500 900
annually, Colonel Youngblood confesses
| that he is unable to understand For six
years, he says, the experts have worked
| in Sumter county without the cooperation
| of the people. and practically nothing has
been accomplished. In Madison county,
however. he says the people have CO.
operated and the tick has been practically
eradicated in four years.
Speaking of this county, Colonel Young
| blood says that it is by natural endow-
ment one of the best cattle raising coun-
ties in the south, and IL every farmer
would raise two cows annually keeping
| them free of the tick, there would be
$4,000 cows, instead of 1000 in five years.
The dealt lte in Alabama from the
cattle tick, lie says, is simply appalling
| Colonel Youngbood says the talk of a
meat trust is all poppycot The beef barons
after utilizing every by-product, earn only
90c per carcas. 1t Is a question of supply
and demand. There has been an increase
| of 100000 in the population of the United
States in the past six years and a de-
| n Of T.. l.. lei. q
cattle, and as the supply grows shorter
the price goes higher, other meats and
foods advancing accordingly, for there
must be some substitute for meat He
will spend several days in this county
, trying to bring home these facts to the
people of this county.
| That there has been steady advances in
values of Calhoun county land within the
past few years, largely as the result of
the building of the excellent system Of
pike roads in every section of the county,
has just been indicated by two transac-
tions of Eugene L. Turner Jr., son of
E. l.. Turner, president of the Admission
Chamber of Commerce.
About a year ago, shortly after his
graduation from Princeton university. Mr..
Turner purchased tract of "a acres about
three miles north of this city for $50 per
acre and this week the farm was sold
TO j. a. ftdTTeD iOT 9bU an acre. FOLLOW
ing the sale of the farm in the northern
part of the county, Mr.. Turner purchased
240 acres of the j. L. Wheeler farm east
of Oxford. This land, 4s0 acres, was
bought by Mr.. Wheeler few years ago
for $4,000. He improved half of it and
sold the unimproved one-half to Mr.. Turn
er this week @ rssA
Taxes in Calhoun county are being paid
very slowly. according to Tax Collector
! Worth Whteside. Up to the present. he
says. only 304 persons have paid their
poll tax, and out of an assessment of
s220,0o0 only about $4,000 has been col
lected on other taxes
The case of S. J. Kircus against Carl
Wilson was heard in the circuit court at
Admission before Judge II. ID. Merrill
Wednesday. Mr.. Kircus Claims that Mr..
Wilson ran into his buggy near the -Four
Mile church. this side of Jacksonville last
June and that he failed to have lights on
his car. Damages in the sum of $1,000 were
claimed
The funeral and interment of Mrs.
Ionic Phillips Morton, who took her own
life through dependency on account of
roor health and domestic troubles Tues
day afternoon, will be held at Boaz Thurs
day