The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1913-07-12

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ticks, it is nothing but right that
they should be allowed to turn out
on the open range in the fall. On
the other hand, to grant the same
privilege to a man who has made
no effort whatever to clean his cat
tie, is unjust to those whose cattle
are free. 1t means that the
"ticky''' cattle are going to mingle
all the winter with the free" cat
tie; SO that every spring, we must
all start the fight anew. This is
what we have been doing every
spring for the past three years. 1t
could have been prevented by the
proper kind of inspector.
Again, it happens that a local
inspector will visit the pastures
regularly for a while and find no
ticks; he then recommends that
that mans cattle be released from
quarantine. This is done, and he
has orders not to visit that pasture
any more. This is another mis-
take. The local inspector should
visit each and every pasture regu-
larly, whether released from quar-
antine or not. In this way, only,
can your county be freed of ticks.
Now, as to the expense and the
benefit to result therefrom. If you
will divide the total expense that
the county will be put to, by the
total number of cattle in the coun-
ty, you will have what it will cost
each COW. In other wordsn let each
COW bear her part of this expense.
1t is estimated that in your county,
this will be about So cents; let's
make it even more than that; let's
say it will cost each COW one hun
dred cents to rid her of ticks.
Now then, take the best registered
milk COW IN the county trat has
ticks on her; or take the poorest
scrub milk cow in the county with
ticks on her, and rid them of the
ticks; and | want to say to you that
the increase in the quality as well
as the quantity of her milk and
butter, will more than pay her
share of the expense.
Again, let's take the poorest
scrub yearling in the county that
is covered with ticks: free him of
these ticks, and his increase in fat
and weight and growth and looks,
will more than pay his share of the
expense. So. that / have no hesi-
fancy in saying that, instead of
this movement being an expensive
one, it is in reality a money max
| ing as we'll as money saving
proposition. And l don't believe
there is a man in the house who
can dispute this claim.
Again, my friends, ] want to say
that there is no reason under the
sun why Lincoln cNunty or any
other county, can't free herself of
the ticks in less than twelve
months. 1t has been costing Jeffer-
son county between four and five
thousand dollars per year; but this
is absolutely useless. There is no
sense doing it, and the people of
my county realize it and have rails
ed such kick over it that the
Government has put new man in
charge down there. A man, who.
if he keeps up the gait that he has
been going since the first of June,
is going to clean up Jefferson coun-
ty by Christmas. This is the kind
OF man you want here. Profit by
Jeffefson's mistakes. Get the right
kind OF man in charge. Then get
| good. honest, local inspector men
who won't be afraid to do their
lduty, and see to it that they do
their duty. or turn them off and
| get men who will.
| Of course. you will have kickers,
you have them in anything that is
started. Some men are like mules,
they'll kick at their own shadows.
/ see from the papers that quite q
number of your supervisors anc
business men went to jackson a few
days ago to look into the merits o1
| the tick question. / think you
made a mistake in sending these
lmen. You should have sent car,
load Of your "kickers. fee
sure that they would have come
back to you we'll broken in, ready
to pull without being forced.
want to warn you men about
all these reports that you hear. We
heard them before we adopted the
tick law. For instance, we heard