Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1917-11-30

Washington.-With broad wedge
driven through the cattle tick army
right to the Gulf and with a new area
of $500 square miles In nine states
cleaned from tick to be freed from
federal quarantine, December l will
be red-letter day for the cattle and
dairying industry Of the South.
This release breaks all records in
| tick eradication. The total territory
released during the year 1917 through
the cooperative efforts of the states
and the United States department of
agriculture amounts to 70,754 square
miles, or 10000 more than were re-
leased In 1912, until now the record
year.
| List of Counties Released Dec. l..
The order signed by Secretary
Houston provides that the following
counties shall be released Deem
| Der L:
Baldwin, Barbour, Chambers, Choc-
taw, Clarke, Coosa. DeKalb, Houston
Russell, Talladega. and parts of Chero-
kee and Mobile. Total released In
state, $3.50 square miles.
Arkansas
Columbia, Crawford, Lonoke, Mon
roe, Nevada, Ouachita, Pope, Prairie,
Union, White. Yell, the remainder of
Baxter, independence, lizard. Jackson,
Lee, Phillips, st. Francis, Sebastian,
| md Darts of Conxyov Dacho EouIk-
ner, Jefferson, Pulaski, and Van Bu-
rem. Total released In state. 1905
square miles.
Florida.
Monroe. Total released in state,
100 square miles.
Georgia.
Bib, Brooks, Burke Butts, Coweta,
Dougherty, Douglas, Gwinnett, Jeffer-
son, McDuffie, Muscogee, Spalding,
Taliaferro and Troup. Total released
In state. $3.50 square miles.
Louisiana.
Caddo, Concordia, East Feliciana,
Franklin, Jefferson Davis, Lincoln,
Pointe Coupee, Washington, West
Feliciana, and parts of Orleans and
Ouachita. Total released In state,
1888 square miles.
Mississippi.
Calhoun, Choctaw, Covington,
Franklin, George, Greene, Hancock,
Harrison, Itawamba. Jackson, Jeffer-
son Davis, Kemper, Lamar, Lawrence,
Lincoln, Marion, Montgomery, Pearl
River Perry Pontotoc, Prentiss, Simp-
son, Smith, Stone, Tishomingo, Wayne,
Webster, and the remainder of Jones.
Total released in state, 1860 square
miles.
North Carolina.
The remainder of Northampton, and
parts of Columbus and Pitt. Total
released in state, 1,079 square miles.
Oklahoma.
Okfuskee, the remainder of Della
ware, and parts of Adair, Cherokee,
McClain. Mayes. Okmulgee and Usage
Total released in state, 3,240 square
miles.
Texas
Coke, Concho, Cooke, Dallas, Irion,
Montague, Runnels, Stephens, Sutton,
Taylor, Young, the remainder of
Shackelford and Throckmorton and
parts of Crockett, Jack and Tom
Green. Total released In state, II, 1856
square miles.
Total Area Released.
The quarantined area after Deem
Der will include 349, 253 square miles,
compared to 728,565 square miles quar-
antined' July /, 1906. The quaran-
tined territory will be divided as fol-
lows: Alabama, 1898; Arkansas, 90
952; Florida, 49,961; Georgia, 35, 324;
Louisiana, 1924; North Carolina, o.
674; Oklahoma, 22.377; South Caro-
lima, s,619: Texas. 142,91S; Virginia,
1886.
To Celebrate Tick-Free Day.
Throughout Mississippi and in 80
counties and parts of counties In eight
other southern states, local officials
and citizens are arranging local cele-
brations to mark the dipping out of
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Three Gold Nuggets Worth $1,tss.
Three gold nuggets with total val
uation of $1.155, were portions of
cleanup made recently by Patrick
Holland In his placer mine near Cof-