St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1919-03-22
CATTLEDIPPING

The prospect for St. Tammany par
ish to complete the work of tick
eradication this year is very hope
ful, providing we can have the full
cooperation of the cattle owners by
dipping all their cattle at the regular
dipping periods throughout the sea-
son, and. not a half-hearted cp-opera-
tion in complying with the issue by
trying to lip half their cattle at one
dipping date and the remainder at
the next period, for by so doing you
allow grown ticks to drop off and
re-seed themselves and thus continue
the work indefinitely. The time to
dip the cattle tick is while he is
young and innocent, before he has a
chance to raise a family.
Owing to such an abundant rain
fall since November 10, 1918, up to,
portion of the cattle range has been
submerged with water, and as a re-
suit of this condition, together with
the damp chilly effect upon range
cattle, some are in a rather poor con-
dition, but the majority of these cat
tie can be driven to the vat and ii
their condition is such that they can
not be dipped these cattle will be
permitted to be taken into the drip
ping pens and washed with the solu-
tion in the presence of the Inspector
Wi oil ta hot
too heavy with calf to be- dipped at
this time of the year. If there are
some few cattle that are too poor to
be driven to the vat this condition
should be reported to your local In
spector, so that he can protect you in
this matter, and if any of these ca
tie have ticks on their bodies they
should be pulled off and burned.
Do not leave your cattle at home,
for by so doing you are responsible
for the continuation of the work, and
also run a chance of having to keep
your cattle upon your premises to-
gether with being brought before the
Court, for there will be Range Rid
ers to check up these conditions.
Some people are evidently 1aboring
under the impression that if they
leave their cattle on their premises
they do not have to dip them in order
to comply with the law. This is not
the case, for the law specifically
states, "All cattle must be dipped
under the supervision of an Inspector
at the time ami place designated by
him." This applies to wild cattle as
we'll and tame, and if it isn't possible
to dip these cattle there is only one
course open to the man that owns
THIS kind of eattle-get rid of them.
AS long as these cattle run at large
on the range, undipped, they con-
tinue to spread ticks for other cattle
to pick up. They are therefore
menace to the cattle owners in this
section who are trying to complete
the campaign, as we'll as an expense
and source of annoyance to the
CWner.
| wish to correct an error that
has become general conversation in
a certain section of the parish Some
one has taken the liberty to quote
me as having said 'sthat wild cattl
running in the swamps along Pearl
River were too pretty to be outlawe4
and killed, and that these cattle
could be handled by being Isolated
This is not true. I did make the
statement that the majority Of these
cattle could be dipped If an effort
was put forth to do SO. There are
two courses open to people who have
this kind of cattle, dip them Of get
rid of them, for owners who have
stock in their possession and fail to
comply with the law and try to con-
tinue the dragging out OF this cam
paign will have the pleasure Of being
allowed to tell their troubles to Judge
Carter in court for each and every
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