The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1919-03-27
ENTIRE i. S. TO
BE TICK-FREE
BY 1923
Head of Eradication Work Predicts
That South Will BE CHIEF Cattle
Section.

BY 1928 there will not be cattle
tick left on American soil, according to
DR.. K. A. Ramsey of Washington, ID.
G.. chief of the Tick Eradication Di
vision of the Bureau Of Animal Indus
try OF the United States Department
of Agriculture.
DR. Ramsey, who is on trip of
inspection of the Southern states
where tick eradica ton work is in
progress, spent yesterday in Little
Rock in conference with Dr. NJ. Greg
ory federal inspector in charge of tick
eradication work in Arkansas
Not only will the cattle tick be
eradicated from the United States in
four years. but even Porto Rico has
taken up the work, according to DR..
Ramesy.
- South the Chief Cattle Section
The reason why the government is
pushing tick eradication work so
strongly is that it is realized that the
South must become the great cattle
producing section of the country" he
said In the great corn belt of the
Middle West, they must have cattle to
feed. The farmers in those states can
raise corn. but they cannot raise
enough cattle to which to feed all
their corn. 1t has been their Gus
tom to buy cattle in the West in the
fall. to feed their corn and hay TO
fatten these cattle during the winter
and then to market the fat cattle in
the spring Now the Western ranges
rapidly are being broken up as the
country is settled. Hence the Mid
die West must look for a new source
fer cattle. and the South is the only
section that can produce these cattle
profitably The South has the great
natural advantages of plenty of grass
and favorable climate. Southern
cattle can run out of doors nearly all
winter. Due to favorable climatic con-
ditions, the calf crop of the South is
about 80 per cent. That is. 80 per
cent of the calves born in the South
will survive. In the North 80 per cent
is considered very good.
And your Southern farmers can
produce these cattle without reducing
their cotton and other crops. In fact.
they can produce more crops because
of the added fertility that the cattle
will give the soil.
DIR. Ramsay has just returned from
Texas, and he says that state will be
tick-free by 1922. He reports that
Fort Worth, the great Texas cattle
market. will be in tick-free area
by December l. and that this will have
"A great effect on Texas cattlemen
After December l, the shipping of
tick-infested cattle To Fort Worth will
be 50 handicapped and restricted that
there will be every incentive for cat
tlemen to have the tick quarantine re
moved from their counties.
Arkansas Tick-Free by 1920.
Arkansas should be tick-free by 1920
according to DIR. Ramsay BY the end
of the present year. only seven coun-
ties will remain in tick-infested terri
tory, and these will be cleaned up
next year.
Arkansas has done very we'll in he
matter of tick eradication" he said
sixty per cent of this state has been
freed from the cattle tick, and the av-
erage for all the states is 63 per cent
SO that your state is only slightly be-
low the average"
DR.. Ramsay said that about $780,
600 is being expended in Arkansas for
tick eradication work this year OF
this total the federal and state govern
ments contribute about 100000 each,
and the counties put up the remain
der.