The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-10-11

done? In word will tick eradica-
ton pay? Let the stern facts de.
term!ne n
1t IL now about seven years since
this b. reau undertook in dead earnest
the work of tick eradication in the
Sunny south. 1t began the work in
inexperience and with much angry OPP
position. But it kept at work in good
and evil report And meantime it in
vented perfected. and wisely and
widely, introduced its splendid system
of cattle dipping watts, and its most
effectual arsenical dip solution, and
these have done the work-and now
we see not less than $4,000 square
miles, or more than 10000, 900 acres
of southern soil and territory, which
have with the cattle, been entirely
freed from the cormorant cattle ticks
and taken out of the clutch of very \
rigid and drastic United States quar-
antine law.
Upon this area, as large as the COM
bined state of South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama and Mississippi, but in which
states, owing to the "do nothing" poll
CIV of their citizens, the cattle ticks still
prevail, lived the owners of no less
than 4.440,000 horned cattle. The cost
of the work was no less to Uncle Sam
:, than one million dollars, besides the
greatly lesser sum contributed by the
9 various states and counties which
have been released.
o But now did tick eradication pay?
q Well, these very CATTLE, 440 900
were no sooner freed from ticks than
thew began to improve in health and
!. strength, and appearance. They grew
in size and weight and in demand and
: cash value, SO that these very cattle
;, rose in cash value from an aggregate
!, of s5811s, 600 to $50, 0S5,720. Or clear
;, net gain to the cattle owners and from
Il cattle alone, of $21, 965,7So. Or more
- than twenty times the entire cost OF
=, tick eradication. The cost being paid
~ almost entirely by Uncle Sam. And
- yet some grizzled old patriots ash
~ "Will tick eradication pay?"
-. But it must not be forgotten tina
=. the acres, as mere land, were great,
:. beneftted-as much at least as iron
=, three to five dollars per acre. But a.
increase in value of from three t
FIVE dollars per acre would be for 12O
'"' 900 900 acres from $36O,00O,OOO t
'N $500 900 900. But does this seem il
credible? Well let us be most mo-
h"' crate. Let us agree, for argument
na' sake that the increase was only or
ai' dollar per acre. Still an increase
only one dollar per acre would
for $4,000, 900 acres, exactly $4,000
600 And this would be more tn;
rda- one hundred royal kings ransoms,
9TH rooro than a million dollars each Al
en- the question, Twill tick eradicate
IL pav?" becomes in the sunshine of t
rlVi- clear facts, as silly as it Is ridiculo'
tor Yes. tick eradication will pay l
IN mensely-event in Forrest coun
has Mississippi. Because there is not
all America a section better adapt
rom for cattle raising than South Mississ
are ri. and cattle raising is bound to
cor the most lucrative branch of agric
Will ture Why so? Because cattle w
lam never so high as now. And the
neys mand must be higher still. Why
iDhc Because there are now less cattle
lent the United States than there w
ator twenty years ago. The great he
8 OF and pastures of Texas and the or
VIII West are gone. The great pastu
1t ID have been broken up into small far
'ena- But population is still pouring In
y 10 most a million per year. Now,
that these millions must be fed-and Il
men progeny also And the cattle must
VII raised. Beef cattle 1t Is certain m
be very high for many and long we
IF. to come 1t must be; so--and th
IN are '"miliions in 1t for the2grower
ment cattle" for Forrest county and all
cav surrounding region. ''@'1 = - ?
the What Forrest county now especi
dian, wants is a great increase in her
d. 1t stock. OF horses and mules; and ST
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