Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-04-14
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STATE OF LOUIs1ANxSS-I'y.nr
DEPT. OF EDUCATION
Baton Rouge, La.


Baton Rouge, La. }
March 20, 1915.
Dear Superintendent:
! am enclosing herewith one copy each
OF the following:
/. Governor Halls proclamation de-
signaling Thursday April 20, as Cattle
Tick Eradication Day, and directing that
teachers and children give appropriate
exercises at 200 P. M. of that day.
.. A little slip containing questions
to be asked by the teachers and the an
swers to be given by the children, designed
to show the losses suffered on account OF
the presence of the cattle tick. These
question and answers were prepared by
DR.. f. P. Flower, of the Louisiana State
Live Stock Sanitary Board, and DR.. W..
H. Dalyrmple, of the Louisiana State
University.
3. A bulletin. "Brief History of the
Cattle Tick Fight in Louisiana to Date, !"
by DR.. w. II. Dalrymple.
An adequate supply of the materials
listed above is going forward under sepa-
rate cover. Please distribute it as follows:
/. Send each teacher a copy of the
proclamation and the bulletin.
2. Send each teacher sufficient num-
Der of the slips containing questions and
answers to supply the teacher and each
child with slip.
8. Instruct the teachers to begin the
instructions promptly at 200 P. NJ,
Thursday, April 20, and l suggest the
following simple exercises.
(a) The children should be instructed
to urge the attendance of their parents,
older brothers and sisters, and friends.
% The teachers should open the
exercise by calling attention to the i'm
portance of making determined fight
against the cattle tick.
(c) The teacher should have pupil
who reads well read the Governor
proclamation.
I'D Teachers, pupils and visitors
should be supplied with the slip of ques-
tons and answers. The teacher should
then read the questions, and pupil, or
pupils designated by the teacher, should
read the answers.
(e) Different pupils should then be
called upon to give summary of the in
formation found on the slips.
ID Then, the teacher should sum up.
(g) Ask the children to give the slips
to the folks at home and to discuss the
exercises with them.
When the teachers have finished with
the bulletins, they should, by all means,
hand them to a farmer, if possible, who
would probably read them with profit.
The copy of Governor Halls proclamation
should be posted in CONSPICUOUS place in
the classroom, and the children should
be urged to carry the slips of questions
and answers home that they may discuss
them with the older members OF the
family.
The subject of cattle tick eradication is
an important one. The tick is the prin-
cipal obstacle in the way of the cattle in
dustry in this State. People who would
like to bring in good animals and i'm
prove their scrub cattle cannot do SO
without facing the danger of losing the
money 80 invested on account of the tick.
Louisiana can never be cattle State un-
til it is cleaned of ticks. twill be cleaned
when the people are educated on the SUBJ
ject. The school is one medium for the
dissemination of this useful information,
and the school should do its full duty
in this matter. Every teacher and every
class of children in the State, city and
country, should take part in the tick
eradication exercises Thursday, April 20
and hope that you will insist that they
do so.
Yours sincerely,
T. II. HARRIS,
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