The log cabin Democrat., 1915-08-19

cost, ana only lnehpeHSiNe SHelIer IS required.
 1.-The tick, however, sucks from every animal on which it lives blood that could be sold for meat or which would go to make milk. 'The tick irritates cattle, gives them Texas fever, and keeps them from turning grass and feed into, flesh and milk.
 ''The tick, therefore, is getting a large proportion of every pound of cattle feed used in the tick region.
 "The tick, by compelling the en- forcement of costly and annoying quarantines, adds to the cost of get ting cattle to outside markets. Ticky cattle are worth less at home and bring less in the quarantine pens at the packing houses than free cattle. Ticky cattle can not be transshipped and must go for immediate slaughter. Free cattle can be transshipped to markets where prices are higher or can be sold as feeders. Tick cattle bring only what the local packing house cares to offer. The difference in price between ticky and free cattle runs from one-half to l cent pound. or S5 to S10 head
 "The tick kills imported pure-bred stock and thus makes it hard for the south to raise any but scrub cattle. The banks will not lend money on cattle in the ticky country, although they are glad to help farmers in tick free counties to buy pure-bred ami mals and develop the dairying and cattle-raising industries. The tick, by making it unprofitable to raise cattle on cropped farms, cuts down the manure supply ana reduces the fer tility of land and production per acre. ! "The tick, by keeping down farm profits, keeps down the value of farm land The tick is an enemy of the farmer, the merchant, the banker, and the people of the south.
 "There is no need to support the costly tick One-third of the tick in- fested districts of the south have
 proved that it is easy to get rid of , the tick forever and to build up E great and profitable cattle industry. All that is needed is for the people,
 the county, the state, and the United 9 States department of agriculture to- t get together and dip cattle. s Dipping cattle in an arsenical t bath will kill the ticks and enable the l. animal to give more milk or to put l, on flesh and bring better price in the S meat markets.
 ! Less than 90 cents a head covers the entire cost of erecting dipping a s vats in the counties, supplying ar senical baths for all cattle and pay ing the dipping inspectors. The indi- Il vidual owners share of this 90 cents } will be very small. The immediate t profit to owners, it is conservatively e estimated, will be from S4.50 to s95o head.
 e When the tick has been dipped '- out, the farmers can combine to i'm IL port pure-bred bulls, which, with ~ native cows, will produce better stock .s and increase the yield of beef or milk 10 and butter fat.
 " With the tick out, sound farm d management, that uses idle pasture " lands and waste products, keeps up| te fertility, and permits all-year proft- r. able use of labor, becomes possible ,t Forty acres with cattle free from i- ticks will produce as much as 6O r. acres where cattle are kept out oy ir the tick.
 ir "The arsenical bath puts into the lg pockets of the farmers the heavy coss lg of the ticks incessant meal. It coss ed the south $50,000,000 year to boaro| ,h the tick.
 IT, Every county, as soon as It nas
 dipped it's cattle, is in line to develop p, dairying and meat raising and taks| in it's share of the $50,000.000 increaseo|
 revenue possible in the tick-1rss|
 south.
 You can free your county fron|
 this pest in one year. Do 1t tns
 year. A letter or postal card aa1
 dressed to the secretary of agrlcur
 ture, ashington, D. C., will promp'p