The Donaldsonville chief., 1918-03-23
DIPPING CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED
Organized Effort to Eradicate Tic
Instituted in Ascension.


The fight against the cattle fever
| tick was inaugurated in Ascension
parish, on the Donaldsonville side of
the river, Tuesday, March 19. The
necessary dipping watts have been re-
paired or constructed, and so locat-
ed that they are within easy driving
distance of every cattle owner. A
i dipping, day will be@et for each vat
and all persons owning OF having
charge of any cattle will be required
to dip their cattle on that day and
every fourteen days thereafter dur
ing the regular dipping season. Vat
to be designated by the inspector in
charge.
The heartiest cooperation of every
one is respectfully urged, as the inn
portance of the speedy eradication of
| the cattle tick is being brought home
to US mora forcibly now than at any
other tineGssand is of much greater i'm
portance yhan most consumers-and
! too many producers realize. The
project of tick eradication is, today
one Of national and even internation-
al interest. 1t concerns every Amer
lean citizen who is up against "meat-
less days" to do his share to keep
these days to minimum.
The cattle fever tick has been apt1y
described as San ally of the Kaiser"
in this war This parasite is sucking
annually millions Of pounds of blood
from the meat and milk producing an
imals Of the south and is constantly
working to cut down the meat supply
Of the Kaiser's enemies, just as the
Prussian incendiarists are working to
destroy the food supply already pro-
duced and placed in storage plants.
There are a number of good reasons
why the tick should be eradicaed, but
if for no other reason the work would.
be justified as an essential war meas
ure. =
The tick is costing the southern
states something over forty millions
Of dollars every year. 1t makes beet
production an improbable industry
as there is. no open market for cattle.
from tick-infested territory: it re-
tards agricultural progress by making
waste out of considerable amount
of by-product that might be used for
food for CATTLE And only until the
tick is wiped out can the south hope
to attain it's highest development Of
agricultural, beef and dairy produc-
ton.
The work of tick eradication has
been held back in the past here and
elsewhere by the same forces that
have hampered the work of preparing
our nation for war-ignorance, in
difference nd the tendency to believe
1, ri~rt, tcS in
terfered with. This opposition should
be made matter of history and the
people should realize the Importance
and necessity of eradicating the tick;
everyone should do his share to make
it an absolute certainty that this. ally
of the Kaiser shall be driven from the
state of Louisiana and the work
brought to successful termination
at the end of this dipping season.
The cattle tick is a thief. 1t robs
the people of good ,ehigh-class, high
priced cattle 1t deprives the farmer
of cash return for his pasture and
feed; it takes away the bloom of the
calf and leaves the owner disgusted
with the scrub cattle under state and
federal quarantine; it robs the soil of
fertility and increases the commercial
fertilizer bill; it robs the whole fam
lily Of milk, butter and cheese; it inn
the children and starves
and stunts the sucking calf; and af-
ter all this is done it will take the last
cow a man has and leave him dead
broke.
The solution is 'sDIP THAT TICKp'
There will be thirty-seven watts in
operation in the parish this season,
designated as follows: Germania, AS
cension, Evan Hall, Smoke Bend,
Brusly Sacramento, Acosta, Crescent,
Donaldsonville, Riverside, Point Hou-
mas, Miller, Smiley (Lake), Charles
Wall (Lake), Henderson Bayou (Gal-
vez), Causey (Galvez), Burns (Ho-
bart), Duplessis, Landry prairie
gille), Bsrf (Prairieville), Oak Grove,
DutchtoRh, Geismar, Belle Helene,
Nelson, Mount Houmas, Darrow,
Burnside, Cornerview, Gonzales, Ba-
you Conway, Brittany, Sorrento,
Fridge, Acy, Black Bayou, Brignac,
and ST. Amant.
A schedule of dipping dates for all
IF these watts will be announced later
E. ]. MEIXEL,