The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-16
West Florida Is
Organized to Fight Tick
Continued from Page one.1

ne nrst started the work the calves
were dying up rapidly and there was
great loss from tick fever. The
calves were not thrifty and death
often resulted from the tick fever.
After dipping they commenced to
show improvement. The first year
they improved Is per cent; the second
they improved IS per cent.
E. s. Pace, district demonstration
agent for the northern part of Florida,
was the next speaker. He said he
was glad to see such interest mani
tested in the tick question at last. He
noticed that every county in West
Florida was represented here today.
He said that the man hardest to inter
est in the tick eradication problem is
the man who cannot see where the
matter of tick eradication will be
beneficial to him personally. Such
men must be worked upon and edu-
Gated until they can be made to see
just where the eradication Of the cat
tie tick will benefit them In every
way and give them more beef, better
beef, more milk and better milk, more
! butter and better butter. It is easy
also to show all interested is so small
the cost of tick eradication is SO small
as to be inconsiderable when compar-
ed with the benefits to be derived
from it.
Mr.. S. H. Gaitskfll, of Mcintosh,
Marion county, was next introduced.
He is a practical cattle raiser. He
came to hear and to learn and not to
make speech. However, he believed
that the sooner the work of dipping
the cattle is commenced the better
satisfied will be those who take such
steps. He said he came to South
! Florida in 1884 from Kentucky. He
soon had a very fine orange grove.
The net income from this in 1904 was
! $1,000. But in 1905 the freeze left
/ him without any orange trees, so he
I had to cast about to see just what he
could do to make a living. He de-
cided to go to raising cattle and other
/ stock. He went to Kentucky and
bought a small herd Of short horns.
/ He never did like the small Florida
COW. His first. herd of short horns
didn't develop in South Florida. AT
that time he did not know about the
cattle tick and the tick fever question
which has become such great ques-
| ton today. He later learned about
the tick eradication matter and made
better success of the stock question
He now has a fine herd of short horns
and Herefords, and they are produc-
ing money faster than anything ever
produced it for him before.
He shipped a calf recently, which
was eight months old and weighed 40C
pounds. That calf brought $22 in
New Orleans, which vas not so bad 8
price for a mere calf. Marion county
he said, is preparing to ship cattle
to Baltimore, Philadelphia and other
points where they are being demand
ed, because Marion county is freeing
itself of the cattle tick. At present
about 1000 head of nice steers are be-
ing shipped from Marion county each
| year. Plenty of these steers at
years of age weigh 1900 each. The
big packing companies are now look
ing this way for cattle.
Mr.. W. A. Sessions, of Bombay
spoke next and told of his experience:
in stock raising. He had kept seventy
head of Herefords and short horns or
a pasture of 125 acres, and had beer
able to keep them tick-free until about
September, when they were put on
, on the range on account Of dr.
weather. Then they became infested
with the ticks and din OF do well un
til they were dipped again. He salt
stock do we'll on West Florida grass
: until late in the summer, when thu
wire grass gets so tough they will no
eat as much of it as they do thu
grasses of Kentucky and Tennessee.
A nominating committee of three
was appointed by the chairman t.
, make nominations for the differen
) permanent officers Of the organization
: The committee was composed of TIL
+ following gentlemen: NJ. 0. Bagget
: of Escambia, ]. ]. Sechrest of Walton
] and J. T. Williams of Holmes.
: After dinner the Chautauqna orches
} ira rendered some special music TO
: the occasion and Miss Belle Bunnel
: Smith sang a solo and responded t
) an encore.
The committee on nominations re
) ported the following as permanent of
) ficers and they were elected by accla
!, nation:
) ]. C. McSween, of Walton county
! president.
: w. A. Sessions, Of Holmes county
. secretary.
The name chosen was the Yves
: Florida Cattlemen's Association.
Directors Escambia, L. w. Hardy
Santa Rosa, E. P. Fillingim; Okaloosa
: w. H. Mapoles; Holmes, Eamp Nor
, ris; Washington, T. H. Brock; Bay
r. L. Gaynor; Jackson, ]. T. Porter
e Calhoun, J. n. Mcclellan.
Code of ethics and bylaws adopted
dip the Tick"
DR.. E. H. Nighbert of the Unite
States Bureau of Animal Industry, de
: livered an interesting address. H
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