The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-22
MUCH OF ARKANSAS
 FREED OF TICKS
25 Counties and Parts of Counties, i3,3O5 Square Miles, Will Re Add cd Dee. Co Unrestricted Terri
 tory ny Dept of Aari. Order.

Washington, Nov. i6 Arkansas will be one Of the three siates gain ing most largely from an order signed by Secretary of Agriculture D. F. Houston and releasing Dccem- ber isl from the Federal cattle tick quarantine 65.520 square mics in nine southern Statgs.
 The December isl releases thru out the South will reach the largest total ever freed at any one time since the Federal qnarantines were places in 1906. With 5,23i square miles liberated in March and Sep tember of this year they boost the ipi7 total to 70754 square miles by far the greatest mark attained in any year since the tick fight began
 2 Counties Named for Release.
 The Arkansas counties to be freed December 1 by the Department of Agriculture order are Columbia, Crawford, Lonoke, Monroe, Nevada, 0uachita, Pope, Prairie, Union, White and Nell the remainders of Baxter, Independence. lzard, Jack son, Lee, Phillips. St. Francis and Sebastian; and parts of Conway, Desha, Faulkner, Jefferson, Pulaski and Van Buren. The freed area in Arkansas comprises i3,305 square miles.
 The counties previously freed in Arkansas are: Benton. Washington, Carroll, Madison, Franklin, Logan. Johnson, Newton. Boone, Marion, Searcy, Fulton, Sharp, Randolph, Lawrence, Wood Clay, Green, Graighead, poinsett, Cross, Mississ- ippi and Crittenden, and parts of Sebastian. Baxter lzard, lndepend- enee, Jackson, st. Francis, Lee and Phillips counties.
 The counties left under quaran- tine are Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chieot, Clark. Cleburne, Cleveland. Dallas, Drew, Garland, Grant. Hampstead, Hot Springs, Howard, Lafayette. Lincoln. Little River. Miller, Montgomery. Perry, Pike, Polk, Saline, Scott. Sevier and Stone: and parts of Conway, Desha. Faulkner, Jefferson, Pulaski and Van Buren,
 Progress in Arkansas has been fairly steady and reached it's great est momentum this year when the legislature passed three bills ena- bling effective eradication work. These measures were a state-iwde tick eradication law. bill appro- priating s50,00o for tick eradication work and an act to permit the coun- ties to appropriate money for tick eradication. Up to few weeks ago the last-named measure had result cd in the appropriation of S60,000 by counties for next years work. state 60 Per Gent Freed From Ticks.
 In 1906 the entire state. 75 coun- ties with an area of 59.525 square miles. was infested and quarantined l On December of this year i2I counties and 6 parts Of counties will | have been released, leaving 27 | counties and 6 parts of counties still | infested On December the area in the state released will be 3l,573 | square miles, or 60 per cent, leaving | 2095e square miles still under quarantine
 The notable releases of Decem- | Der 1 will drive wedge of tick free territory thru the tick lines to the Gulf of Mexico. This broad | highroad of unrestricted cattle land | will go thru Mississippi, all of which is to be freed. Other states to benefit by the releases are Ala bama. Florida, Georgia. Louisiana, | North Carolina. Oklahoma and | Texas.
 Dr. 4. E. Wight, stationed al Lit tie Rock, is the Inspector in charge | of Tick Eradication assigned to Ar kansas hy the Bureau of Animal | Industry, T. $. Department of Agri- culture.