The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-12-02
20 GEORGIA COUNTIES ARE
ADDED TO TICK-FREE AREA
Passage of New Eradication Law is
Expected to Place Entire State in
Unrestricted Territory Soon.

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IN advance OF the effective date of
Georgia new compulsory tick-eradi-
cation law, twenty counties of the
state will be freed on December
from the Federal quarantine against
the cattle parasite. The Georgia re-
lease, covering a total of 7,618 square
miles, result from the work that has
been pushed in the state this year
and are formally announced in an or
der signed by Secretary OF Agricul-
ture d. F. Houston.
The December l releases will place
Georgia beyond the halfway mark in
Decentralization, with 81 per cent of
its area freed from quarantine. On
that day 1872 square miles of the
o/,438 quarantined on July /, 1906,
Will be opened to unrestricted ship
mcnt of cattle. Counties released
will number 80, with SO still infested
and quarantined
Counties Free December 1.
The Georgia counties to be releas-
ed December l are:
Chattahooche, Grady, Harris, Lee,
HARRISON, Heard, Houston, Lowndes,
Meriwether, Mitchell, Pike, Polk,
Quitman, Randolph, Stewart, Talbot,
Terrell, Thomas, Epson and Warren.
Counties previously freed are:
Bibb, Brooks, Burke, Butts, Cow
eta, Dougherty, Douglas, Gwinnett,
Jefferson, McDufie, Muscogee, Spal-
ding, Taliaferro, Troup, Habersham,
Stephens, White, Hart, Fannin, Hall,
Banks, Clarke, Putnam, Newton,
Oconee, Franklin, Morgan, Dade,
Rockdale, Catoosa, Cobb, Dawson,
Forsyth, Madison, Milton, Murray,
Walker, Whitfield, Gilmore, Baldwin
Cherokee, Chattooga, DeKalk, FL
bert, Fulton, Gordon, Greene, Jasper,
Richmond, Clayton, Hancock, Pick
ems, Wilkes, Barrow, Barlow, Camp
bell, Columbia, Fayette, Floyd, Hem
ry, Jackson, Paulding, Walton, Lin
coin, Oglethorpe, Washington and
Lumpkin.
Counties Guaranteed
Counties left under quarantine,
mainly in the southern portion of the
state, are:
Appling, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill,
Berrien, Bleckley, Bryan, Bulloch,
Calhoun, Camden, Gambler, Carol,
Charlton, Chatham, Clay, Clinch,
Coffee, Colquitt, Crawford, Crisp, De-
catur, Dodge, Doo1y, Early, Echols,
Efflngham, Emanuel, Evans, Glas-
cock, Glynn, Irwin, Jeff Davis, Jen-
kins, Johnson, Jones, Laurens, Lib
erty, Mcintosh, Macon, Marion, Mil
Ter, Monroe, Montgomery, Pierce,
Pulaski, Schley, Screven, Sumter,
Tattnall, Taylor, Telfair, Tiff, looms,
Turner, Twiggs, Ware, Wayne, Web
ster, Wheeler, Wilcox. Wilkinson and
Worth
Preparing for Final Drive.
Reports reaching officials of the
Bureau of Animal Industry of the De-
partment of Agriculture are that
Georgia is preparing for the final
drive against the insect enemy of the
cattle industry. Although the State
law requiring dipping of cattle in ev-
cry county is not to be effective I'M
til December 81, 1919, the people. of
the state, and especially those who
have seen the practical benefits of
tick eradication, realize the big
amount of work ahead Dipping watts
are being built in many localities and
officials are certain that with the steps
that have been taken there will be
no letup in the campaign until the
tick has been finally banished.
Tick eradication work in Georgia
was given real impetus in 1912, when
State aid. and guidance through Geor-
gla veterinarians, accompanied by
more liberal county appropriations,
enabled effective cooperation with
Federal forces. One convincing fac
tor in favor of tick eradication was
the fording of the Mississippi about
1909 by the cotton boil weevil and its
appearance in Georgia fields. This
visitation demonstrated the necessity
for other agricultural products than
cotton. But when pure-bred cattle
were brought into ticky territory,
many of them died, and farmers re-
allied that to develop a prosperous
livestock industry and balanced
agriculture they must rid their pas
lures of the parasites that sucks the
blood that should make meat and
milk.
Greatest Anti Tick Year.
This has been the worst year in his
tory for the cattle tick, and conse-
quently a good end for the South's
cattle industry, The releases author
lied for December / total 1927
square miles in nine states-consti-
tuting the greatest area ever released