The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-02-29
ERADICATE:
The DEADLY
CAT Tie TICK
STRONG EFFORT BEING MADE IN
CARTER COUNTY TO STAMP
OUT DISEASE - MANY CATTLE.
MEN HELPING.

There viii be a meeting of tn
, farmers and stock men at the Cham
Der of Commerce rooms in the count,
court house Saturday afternoon a
1870 o'clock for the purpose of dis
cussing tick eradication and devisinl
ways and means for installing watts ir
Carter county, All persons interested
in this great movement are requested
to be present.
DR.. E. X. Ward, who has been as.
signed to this territory by the United
States department of agriculture, has
been working diligently and has sue
ceoded in inducing several stock men
to install watts. jim Croskill at Ber-
wyn, Tom Ellis of Hignight, Jim Hol-
den Of Niblack school district, and
several others, have already installed
watts and several others have let con-
tracts for them. Westheimer & Daube.
who are among the biggest cattle
raisers in the county, have two vats
already upon their ranches, and will
build others, if the necessity demands.
DR.. Ward is striving to have a vat
installed near the stockpens in south
east Ardmore and hopes to induce the
county commissioners to assist him
in defraying the expense of the same.
A petition has been circulated asking
the commissioners to take such ac-
ton as soon as they can do so under
the law, which will be at the end of
the fiscal year
Drop that tick" This slogan is
fast becoming popular throughout
the state. The intelligent farmer real
ICES that it is money in his pocket
to have his cattle free from disease.
The United States department of ag-
riculture has been sending out a spec
ial circular and letter to nearly 10000
farmers in the state The circular is
headed, Cattle Ticks Worse Than
Wound
1t deals with the Texas fever tick. |
which is the carrier of Texas or
splenetic fever, just the same as the |
mosquito is the carrier of malaria and |
yellow fever.
The department is asking the citi-
zens of Oklahoma to look into this
proposition from business stand. |
point. The man with one COW re-
ceives as much benefit In proportion
from tick eradication as the man with
large herds. 1t stops the death loss
from Texas fever and opens up
competitive market for cattle at home
by enabling outside buyers to come
in and purchase local cattle and ship
them out without restriction.
According to the annual report of
the live stock department of the Ok
lahoma state board of agriculture, tick
eradication in this state from Janu-
ary II to December 90, 1915, saved
s., 29S, ,S00.53 more than the cost of
carrying on the work, which was $13S,-
525.47.
II is estimated that every animal
dipped has an increased value of 81.
Il is pointed out, however, that this
is not the only profit derived from
the work, as the people have been
in not being able to
bring in high-grade breeding stock
from above the quarantine line with
out danger of heavy loss. This dan
ger is removed and an organized move
ment toward the production of better
livestock will doubtless follow.
The report indicates that 34S,11S
head of cattle were dipped an average .
Of eight times per head, making a
total of 2,O31, ,432 dippings. Twenty ,
one counties are actively engaged in
lick eradication and four more have ,
recently begun the work
\ total of 51i dipping watts has
1een used 4i2 of which are county
.ats and the others private vats.
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