New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1916-08-19
DIPPING OF CATTLE AND
THE EXPENSE

LIE EsAfGN0 DE-
In the issue of the Timcs-Pic-
ayune of last Sunday appeared
the subjOined article anent dip
ping in this Parish. We take
pleasure in reproducing it in full
for the persual Of those of our
readers who have not seen it:
Feeling in New Iberia over the
result of the passage by the police
jury yesterday of modified dip
ping ordinance seems to be varied.
That the resumption Of dipping
was desired by a large majority
of the town people has always
been known, but the conditions
under which the jury agreed to
order the resumption of the work
are coming in for a large amount
of criticism.
1t is argued that on the compile
ton of the extra fourteen watts,
and the resumption of the work,
the police jury will be mourning
an added expense, which, consid-
ering the total revenues, the pres
ent indebtedness and amounts
budgeted for specific purposes,
will make for a condition that
should be avoided. ,.
1t is estimated that the addi-
tional fourteen watts, wells, and,
! drinking troughs will cost $37O0x
The added salaries of six extra
inspectors $225O for 1917, plus
1915 to complete the present sea-
son. the added expense of clean
ing twenty-eight watts every porty-
two days, plus extra chemicals,
will add $1125 to the yearly ex-
pense, making q total Of $7O75 ex-
ira expense for the year 1917.
The expense Of the present season
to the parish will reach about
$1,000 which added to that tackled
on by the present police jury will
make the total expense of the
1917 season over $4,000.
It is claimed that had the old
system been not interrupted to
the end Of the present season, IS
per cent of all stock in the parish
would have been freed from the
necessity Of dipping, and that
during the 1917 season the pres
ent number of watts and the old
number of inspectors would have
been ample for the winding up|
of the campaign.
Fear that refusal of the pO-
lice jury to order the resumption
of the work on any conditions,
caused many citizens to accept the
situation rather than see the par
ish lose the government expert
mental stock farm, see the ADAM
donment Of the annual parish fair
and see their parish numbered
among the backward parishes Of
the state, summed by the immi-
grant farmer and stock man.
Commenting on the resumption
Of the work, DR.. J. p. Harrison,
who recently shipped in prob
ably the highest priced herd of
beef cattle ever brought to Lou
isiana. said today:
cit comes high. but it's worth |
it. With the beginning we have
made. with our climate and for
age crops. I now hope to see the
parish take first rank in the cat
tie industry"
st. Paul LeBourgeois. retired
and capitalist, who
has recently gone extensively into
the raisino of Herefords on his
ranch near Jeanerette, said: 81
have spent $4,000 on by Here
ford farm so far. and had dipping
not been resumed my investment
would not have been worth %
cents on the dollar. We were al
most rid Of the tick throughout
the parish and to have stopped
now would have killed the best in
dustrv the farmer can 90 in. and
predict now that. the time is
near when cattle raising of the
parish will be its leading indus
try."