The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-02-13
To MAKE STATE TICK FREE.

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have forgiven Prot. G. FL. Staples
and, incidentally, added j. X. New
| man to their ranks. When DIR. Dod
tson announced at the short course
that the professor had gone to New
York and purchased eighteen royal,
bred Holsteins for the bankers farm
near Dona1dsonEille, they jumped al
the conclusion that the jealous in
structor who had served their cause
without stint or salary had aban
doned them for their rivals. Later
it developed that the dean of dairyins
in Louisiana had also brought fol
Mr. Newman twenty-five Jerseys ot
equally famous ancestry, so the Jer
seymen have decided to take theil
hands off Staples and keep their eyes
on the animals. It will be a test
under ideal conditions, and both
breeds may prove their value to the
farmers of the state. Meantime the
farm wealth of the commonwealth
has been augmented by half a hun
dred as fine dairy COWS as there are
in the United States and the future
of the milk industry and breeding
enhanced and advanced.
Mr. Newman is welcome recruit
to the agricultural cause in many
ways. He first proved his faith and
interest in his section by purehas-
ing a considerable area of land and
deFoting it on large and practical
scale to the purposes which many
Farmers desired to see tried out but
were prevented by the lack of
means. A Kentucky expert was se-
cured to experiment with the proper
crop foundation for the cattle indus
try, and the first season, although
the start was late, evidenced that
ef0Vers and other forage and feed
could be raised with greater sue
cess here than even in the native
fields of his confidence and pride
Then came the question of the
proper stock, with mileh cattle as
the initial herd Mr. Newman in
stead Of listening to the plentiful
advice Of energetic statesmen or de-
voted partisans. wisely communicat-
ed with the state authorities direct,
and DR.. Dodson thought the event
fraught with SO much import that he
dissoeiated Prof. Staples from his
manifold and urgent duties for a
spell and commissioned him to at
tend some Of the great sales in the
east in order to obtain some strains
of the highest grade.
Having gone SO far IN his plan Mr.
New man reeogn zatl that IL vas vital
to uItiInate VIc1ary I'd the state for
the latter to free herself of the
tick. The patriotic teachers have
been preaching salvation for half a
dozen years, and every doubt has
not kept pace with conviction.
Only three parishes are absolutely
and completely free, full dozen
are on the waiting list and will like
ly achieve independence before the
year is out, and there are dipping
watts scattered about in all the other
parishes. None OF the police juries.
are turning deaf ear to the farm
ers' appeals, but many of them are
deploring the lack of ready money,
SO that a tiek-redeemed Louisiana
seemed some years off. In finance
Mr. Newman is thoroughly at home
and he went to work with character
istic directness He. offered to adj
vance $4,000 TO the police jury of As
cension, IN which parish his farm is
located, so that dipping Facilities
could be furnished in every yard
and all cattle in the section
protected Then he went before the
bankers of New Orleans, and as they
all realize the saundness OF the pol
icy of building agricultural progress
and prosperity as the best of gener-
al assets, they readily consented to
make similar loans available to all
the parishes IN what is known as
the sugar belt. With the tick eradi
Gated IN this broad territory, and
With the cotton section doubtless
displaying like activity, the best
stock can be purchased with safety
and sold with greater ease at high
er price. Tt will also hasten the day
of packing houses to make New Or
leans one OF the greatest cattle
markets In the world and solve the
selling problem which is the last OBJ
staeie in the way Of permanent and
paying hog and cattle industries.
And Mr.. NeWman's reasoning is clear
enough for all interests to under
stand and adopt
This tick eradication has to be.
accomplished, said he. No cat
tie can or will be brought IN here
@rr~ cnatinF SxF 1$Ysyy
where there is no tick, because the
tick gets on the non-immune cattle
and kills a large per cent. Besides
this, where the tick exists it cuts off
one-third OF the milk production, and
in the case OF beef cattle it pre-
vents proper feeding and the making
Of profitable gain in weight. Ticks
suck the blood OF old and young cat
tie, and keep them in dull, Hstless
condition. No farmer east, north or
west would think Of operating with
out milk and beef cattle, as heneeds
the fertilizfng elements they fur
nfsh. Any farmer living out Of thu.
tick belt, who might consider moVs
ing here If tae country was tica
free, would not think of bringing his
cattle here to be attacked by tick
fever any more than he would think
of settling in land infected with
typhoid or malaria. The tick gives
the cattle fever similar to malaria,
only much more deadly to non-im-
mune cattle.
Mississippi and Alabama have
been much more aggressive in eradf-
eating the tick and are far in adj
vance Of US in this respect. It is
much easier to kill the tick in the
sugar section than in those states, al
the frenuen1 blowing of fI1a cane