The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-19
JACKSON COUNTY APPRECIATES VALUE
 OF ANT|-TICk WORK
Citizens Raise Money to Carry on Work in Spite of Adverse Supreme Court
 Decision

..From time to time recently articles have appeared in various newspapers stating that tick eradication could not De conducted in Jackson county, Alabama on account of an adverse decision of the supreme court respecting the enforce Inent of the rules and regulations or me Alabama live stock sanitary board, said ] A. Kiernan. inspector in charge of the Birmingham office of the United States bureau of animal industry
 jackson county, Alabama, undertook the work of tick eradication in cooper ation with the state live stock sanitary board and the United States bureau of animal industry March 1, 19l3 consid- erahle sum of money had been appro- priated by the board of revenue with which to hire county inspectors. But work had scarcely begun before the board lof revenue had its hands tied by de- cision of the supreme court involving a controversy over the payment of new courthouse at Scottsboro. Under the rul- ing of the supreme court the county was l enioined from incurring additional in debtedness. In consequence of the de- cision all of the county inspectors were discharged and for a few days tick eradi- cation was dead.
 "rhe people had become so convinced of the necessity and worth of tick eradica- ton work that a. mass meeting was held at Stevenson and 5000 raised iby popular subscription to carry on the work for the balance of the year, which was done No better cooperation has ever been obtained than in the northern half of Jackson county during 1913, and in consequence, nearly one-half of the county was absolutely freed of ticks and released from quarantine February 16, 1914.
 That tick eradication was not a hard ship on the people of Jackson county is attested by every cattle owner. For few months after the dipping vats were installed and the cattle had been regu- larly dipped. the price of cattle ad vanced $7 per head which was ample to pay for tick eradication a dozen times over
 With the elimination of the tick 1t was no longer dangerous to import pure bred cattle from Tennessee and other tick free states, for the improvement of the native Jackson county cattle. large number of pure bred sires were brought into the northern part of that county dur ing 1913, and there is scarcely a week
 
 ing secure now the ticks have been de- stroyed, does not import pure bred sire ito head his heard
 "The lesson demonstrated in the north ,ern half of the county of the value of tick eradication was quickly observed and learned by the people in the balance of the county, and live stock associations were organized in Scottsboro and Sand mountain solely for the purpose of rais- Ing funds by popular subscriptions for the continuation of tick eradiea ton. At Scottsboro $3500 raised during the winter and active work was started in March. A few weeks thereafter the su- preme court handed down decision that tick eradication work could not be con- ducted under the laws, rules and regula- itions in any county in Alabama not hay Ing more than one-half stock law. and, as only a small portion of Jackson county is under stock law, it seemed for time the work was doomed to an early death.