The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-03-21
TIE Tlck MusT 60.

AT the request OF a well.knowr
Brunswickian. who is deeply interest
ed in the subject. we are reproducing
the following from the Atlanta Con
stitutidn:
| Georgia cannot afford to DALI
with the Texas fever cattle tick. II
Ia a menace of the worst order. and
under tick conditions It is impossible
for the state to realize anything ap
preaching its possibilities as a cattle
producer.
For that reason the efforts of the
George land owners who are banding
themselves into an organization aim
ed directly to the eradication Of the
evil are deserving of every need of
encouragement and cooperation with
In the power OF the state to bestow.
II there is an owner Of land in Geor-
gia who hayiag the whole interests
of himself and his state al heart. Is
DESTROYS OF seeing the possible great
ness of the cattle industry brought to
the point of fullest realization. but
who Is NOT, AZ q member. working
shoulder to shoulder with his fehow
land owners to this end. he would do
well 10 lose no time in coalescing
his interests with theirs by affiliat-
ing with this organization.
The immediate aim OF the organiza-
ton is to create sentiment to elimi-
nate and Offset the prejudice that
exists In certain quarters against the
dipping OF cattle. This they would
crystalline In the form Of . law max
ing the dipping OF cattle in quaran-
tined territory mandatory regardless
~ county boundary lines, thus sup
planting the present lay which places
the enforcement of dipping regula-
tons within the option of the various
counties. The existing law is good
SO far as 1t goes, but experience with
Il has demonstrated thai IL falls short
OF its ultimate aim.
For instance, let ns say, man In,
one county dips his cattle in conform
ity with the law as it is invoked in
his county. K
Just across an imaginary line-in
ANOTHER county77-resides an owner q
cattle, whose stock ranges in and I'M
tests the cattle of the first mans;
county, and. man No. / can dip until
doomsday and never Ed his own
stock from ticks because of constant
contamination from outside. where,
dipping law is not invoked. a
A statewide law is the only sane.
and fair and reasonable means of get;
ting at the crux of the difficulty.
Az is shown in today's issue of The
Constitution by Mr. Seasons and Mr..
Abbott, the difference in value of the
hide alone Of beef animal free from
ticks as compared with the hide of a
ckinfested one, more than pays the
cost of oradicating the tick--to say
nothing of tho difference. ranging
from 81 TO $40 per animal. for beef.
In fact, il has been proven time
and time again that the live stock
grower who opposes the dipping of
cattle for the eradication of ticks Is a
groper in his own shadow.
There can be no ground for argu-
ment against tick eradication any
more than there can be argument
against the heaithfulness OF fresh air
Dipping of cattle has been proven
effective az a fundamental means of
eradicating the tick as has vaccina,
ton In combating smallpox, It can
not be assailed upon any tangible
hypothesis or theory,
The state legislature will do well
10 make the application Of the com.
pulsory dipping law mandatory upon
tho state, and statewide.
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