Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1915-09-23
1906 SQUARE MILES
FREED FROM TICKS.
New Order Release Portions Of
Mississippi. Alabama. Georgia.
and South Carolina on
September IS. 1915.

Washington -. A--NtE~ AHO1sa4A
three hundred and six square miles Of
territory in Mississippi Aahanla-
Georgiz.znd South Carolina vii Be FREE
from quarantine for cattle tick &C sep
TENDER Is, BY an order Just signed BY
Secretary Of Agriculture The territories
freed are tho=e in which the eoGnrie=
the State and the Department Of Azri
culture. working IN eo-oPerztion. save
erzdiezted the tick which cazses Texas
fever by systematic dipping OF cattle
in an arsenical bath The territory /
iustsslezsed makes a total territory % /
-. sss square miles freed fron the
tick since 1909 when syscemztic work
o x-s nd Of this cattle p-=s w2s under
taken As the original territory under
quarantine for the cattle TICK vas IA,
SIS square miles, more than or@-thir5
OF the territory infested has been
cleaned
The order releases the following ter
rirory in the Ssates named
Miszissippi-CIzrke c o1nfy and the
remaining portions OF The eocnEies Of
Lafayette, Bolivar and Clzfborae are
released frOuquaranrin@-
Alabanaa-The counties q Linestons
AMI Montgomery are releAsed from
quarantine
Georgia-The following counties are
released from q1zrzntine- Baldwin,
Chatoogz- De K2Ib, Ebert, Falton.
Gordon. Green, Jasper and Riehnoud-
Sozrh C2roEnz-Ths counties Of
Aiken, Riehlznd, Fairfield, Eershaw
and the remaining por-iou Of Larcas-
ter are released from quarantine
kentneky, Missouri and Tennes=ee
have succeeded N completely wipinx
Our the cattle tick In Teunez=ee. a.
eo1nries We infected California and
Virginia arr now practically free from
the pest Figures from other States
Owever. are not 20 favorable, i shown.
by the facr that IN North Carolina b1r
50 per cent 4 the infested terri-ory
has been cleaned up. Afrer North Car
DINA comes South Carolina with So
per cent, Mississippi with ~ per cent.
Oklahoma with - per cent, Arkansas
with 5 per cent, Texas with = per
cent, and Georgia with Is pr eent-
Louisiana - next % ass with only
per cent, and Florida has not ye< soc
ceeded IN freeing any portion Of the q
counties which were infested IN 1896
In territory aleady released thzre
are about 4-5oo. 600 cattle Tofree the-e
il has cost about y cents per bad
little over hzlf Of which has been borne
by the United States Govzrnmsut- In
return for this outlay the kasse= from
Texas fever in this territory have been
done away with altogether, the grad
Of the cattle markedly Improved, and
the value increased In the tick belt AZ
the present time, Il i said, the yzluz
Of beef bred cattle zt weaving time l.
SIC 10 SIS bad below the g12ranEin=
line, and above tf= quarantine ne IN
free territory the vzlue i 81 so 10
$3.50 per head. The losses from Tsxa=
fever are difficult 70 estimate because
they are sustained largely BY owners
Of small herds who do not report DEATHS
FIR ON this cause IL i no uncemuou
thing, however, for herds % suffer
koss Of from 10 TO 50 pei cent Of their
number Antfn some counties the loss
has been estimated by stock ovne r. 70
be a. high n sl5.9, go IN 1914 The loss
Il must De remembered. Is repeated
ear after year and vii continue % b
repeated a. long n the tick remains
Il i probable. however, that in the
future the work Of ersdiczti0z can be
done more ehezply because Of the large
ausoun- Of educational work already
accomplished The actual expense Of
dipping l. very small The cement and
lumber required for a dipping vat
should cost from so 20 $50 The labor
: usually contributed by the farmers
who are 10 as- the vat The owner OF
50 bead OF czrtI< can afford 20 bald
his own vat and WHERE the herds are
mnch smaller than this il i easy TO
Arrange for community vat From
90 TO lz5 Of these are required IN
an ordinary farming country. To
charge the hath with arsenic and
maintain IL through the summer cost
about 3 IL cents head