The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1915-11-20
NEWS FROM THE TICK FIELD
INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS

sippi counties are now free IF the
cattle tick, which is far greater
portion than any other cf our
neiRhbCring states. Cattle Ia
these tick.free counties are worth
from SIS to $40 more per head than
in thosa not tick-frse, says the
Neshoba Democrat. To prove this
assertion. ask any man who owns
cattle in a tick-free county, adds
that paper. The fact is that the
tick free cattle mean a fortune
ard the profitable use IF land
where little but bare living could
be obtained before. The progress
of the South will be greatly aided
by success IN the cattle raising in
dustry Mobile Register
Tick eradication won in an cleo
ton held in Tippah county on that
question at the election held Tues
day, November 2. and thus the vot-
ers of Tippah county place them
selves in the list of progressives.
Tippah county is becoming a splen-
did cattle growing county and with
the tick eradication program car
ried out all will realize the good
results to the cattle and also in
practical business way, the markets
Of the world being openped to Tip
pah cattle when the ticks are erad-
icated
The anti.tick policy is we'll stat
ed and supported by the Southern
Sentinel, which the following is
quoted from:
1.-The Sentinel believes the peo-
pie of Tippah county have acted
wisely and are to be congratulated
upon voting for the eradication of
the cattle ticks from this county.
A great many farmers have cleaned
up their cattle and their premises
and we have now but few infected
pastures in this county. That is
all the more reason why the inspec-
tion should be made and the pas.
lures now infected cleaned up,
The ticks are not hurting this
county as bad now as the quarsn-
tine. But even If we have not a
tick in the county we are still
quarantined until our Uncle Sam
uel makes a careful inspection and
finds for himself that we are tick
free. When the county is cleaned
up and the quarantine is raised 1t
will mean an advance of from three
to ten dollars a head on all cattle
that are sold from this county,
more than they would bring while
cIassed as 'ticky" territory. The
advance in cattle will pay the cost
of cleaning up several times over
in one year
The boil weevil is now with US.
He isl an unwelcoTe visitor; he
came here on his own invitation.
but he is here and here for busi-
ness he has done but little dam
age this year but we may look out
for the next season. We had hoped
that the cold weather in this part
of the cotton belt would put him
back and make it unsafe for his
health but he is here. Now then
If he dues the damage here he has
done and is doing in other places
then we must turn from so much
cotton and find something else to
bring in some cash This is a good
live stock country and we could
turn our attention to nothing else
that would pay better than the
raising of cattle. To raise cattle
successfully. and market them to
an advantage we must be rid OF
the tick. Besides the boil Weevil
trouble, that we are liable to have
we believe that the next few years
are going to be fat years for live
stock growers.
williamson in the extreme south
west of the State and TippRh in the
northeast are now under the eradi-
cation law.
The Wilkinson election is es-
significant as 1t year or
SO ago voted mo" on the ques-
tIon. when the movement was
first introduced here" the Rspub-
Iican states. lit was accorded a
very cold reception. but as time
went on and our people had op-
portunity to reflect seriously on
the financial losses that were sbeing
sustained through the marked re-
duction in the price and the clos
ing of the markets to their cattle,
they soon became its most ethusi-