Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1915-06-27
0NE.THIRD OF
STATE NOW FREE
OF CATTLE TICK
With Cooperation and AIDE
quate Funds Work May Be
Completed Soon.

| Washington, June 26.-Very nearly
now free from ticks and the entire
state, it is estimated, can be released
from quarantine in two or three years
| if adequate funds are forthcoming. At
the end of 1914, $261,279 had been
spent on the work Of eradication, of
which $174,102 had been expended by
the federal government, $76,293 by
the state and 1884 by the various
counties benefited. 1t is impossible,
however, to estimate from these fig
Nres the cost of completing the task,
for the results of educational work
are not Immediately apparent in the
release of territory. However, the
people of Arkansas have entered into
from the first, and progress has been
steady.
Cooperation Essential.
Eradication would, it is said, be ia
cilitated by a greater concentration
of authority. At the present time the
Northeastern Arkansas Tick Eradica-
ton association has charge Of the
northeastern portion of the state,
while elsewhere the state experiment
station is in control. The federal
authorities are therefore compelled to
cooperate with two independent
bodies who methods and policies are
not always identical. Cooperation
between all persons concerned is vital
TO success. The federal government
snforces interstate guarantees. but
it is not permitted by law to build dip
ping watts nor to supply dipping ma
terials except for experimental pur-
poses. The state and county authori-
ties must do this work themselves,
and they must also enforce the quar-
antines on individual farms whose
owners refuse to dip their stock in
counties where systematic eradication
work has been undertaken. The ne
eessity for these guarantees is obvl-
Gus. No systematic work is under
taken in a county unless the majority
of the people agree that they wish to
make a determined effort to rid them
selves of the tick. One obstinate man
who refuses to dip his cattle may keep
the whole county back, unless he is
compelled to keep his stock at nome.
200 Dipping Vats.
At the GnQ OF 1914 CHCIe we're AoV
dipping watts in operation in Arkan-
sas. a number which compares some
what unfavorably with the 1882 in
Mississippi, but which is considerably
| greater than the number in several
other states. Systematic cooperative
| work was done during the year in
Marion, Baxter, lizard. Shaw, 1nde-
| pendence, Cross and Woodruff coun-
J ties. In March, 1915, lizard and Sharp
| counties were freed while educational
| and demonstration work is being car
ried on in Crawford, Franklin and
Searcy counties. 1t appears from the
| above that Arkansas is alive to the
| great loss that it has suffered in prev
! sous years from the cattle tick. In
| 1910. The census stated that in round
number there were Is million cattle
below the Texas fever quarantine line
| as it the nexisted, and that these cat
tie represented something more than
! 27O million dollars. At that time the
loss from Texas fever was approxi-
mately 10 per cent, or trifle over
is of the total number of cattle.
Thirty-four million dollars, therefore.
was lost annually in the quarantine
area through deaths alone. This takes
no account of the les sthrough shrink
age in milk, discrimination in mar
kets, stunted growth, and other
sources of waste and loss.