Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-07-08
HICKEY CATTLE DO NOT PAY PRODUCER Cattle of Tick free Sections Heavier and Bring More
 Per Pound,

Washington, July 7.-After an
 eight months fight. the foot-and-
 Iouth disease has been practically
 stampsd out and the danger of another great destruc i've animal
 plague averted Hog cholera, tuber
 culosis, and the cattle tick cause an
 annual loss to the country which
 reaches 90 high into the millions of
 dollars that it is almost imposs ibie
 even for trained statisticians to esti-
 mate it. The direct loss in deauA can be computed with reasonable ac- curaey but he indirect losses which
 agriculture in all it's branches sui
 fers whenever and wherever ths re is a scarcity of stock cannot be reck- oned at all.
 Hog cholera and tuberculosis pre-
 val throughout the country; cattle
 ticks are confined 10 one section--the South. Hog cholera and tuberculosis
 pressnt problems which science has not yet thoroughly solved cattle ticks already have been eliminated in miles and can be eliminats d in the rest of the infested territory when ever the people really determine to rid themselves of the pest.
 The danger is one-crop system 1f agriculture has now been made apparent and ttere are many farmers who would gladly abandon it if some substitute were available. But in any sound system of agriculture live stock is indispensable. and while the eat tie tick flourishes the production of The grower in a tick-inf asted coun- try labors under crushing hand- cap. His cattle weigh less and bring less per pound than those of his competitor in tick-free sections.
 In Albama and Mississippi, for ex- ample, the average price for beef On the hoof was, on January 1, 1915, only cents pound. InConnecticut. It was S.4 and in no ticA-free state was it as low as cents. The average price of beef cattle over year cid was $20 Alabama and $22 in It was $6f in Wyoming and $60 in Montana. Vermont, with an average of $39. was the only tick free state in which the price was be- low $40 In North Carolina, South Carolina Georgia. Florida, Louisiana, and Arkans as-all more or less tick
 infested ths average price was be- low SS0
 Such diffF rences are too striking to be ignoredG. They represent an an- nual loss to the farmers of the South oi millions of dollars. The Georgia farmer may expect to receive SIS for his beef animal the Ohio farmar S56, Kentucky, Kansas, and Indiana men, S54. For the ten tick-infested states, North and South Carolina, eorgia Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Lousi- anna, Arkansas, Ohlahoma and Tex as, the general avs rage is $25.9O; TOT the remainder of the country it ts $4S47, In considering the figures it must be borne in mind that many of the states in the tick country have succeeded in freeing large areas from the pest Otherwise. the difference in value undoubtedly would be much greater. A great deal of North and South Carolina. for instance, is as free from ticks as Ohio or Indiana Oklahoma also has grappled so wig orously with the pest and has cleaned go much of it's territory that the averag: value for cattle hes risen to $42 head. In Florida. on the other hand, where no systematic work has as yet been done, the average is SIS