The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1919-09-06

ers get their profit. The railroads ocI
the iect an excessive freight charge. and
the packers while buying at a large re-
w AUCTION slaughter the cattle and sell
for tne beef and other products to the trade
let a' tne same price (as it is Just as goodl
d. as that received for tick free Cattle
ce lhls quarantine was imposed ON the
lr- o.ate by the national government. and
ce with probability or more drastic ana
rantlne regulations at an early data
Mt unless some effort was made bv the
Sc otate to eradicate the ticks, and after
l. assurances from the so-called authori- |
ID tles on the Texas fever tick that bv
!, tipping every fourteen DAYS the sticks
o could and would be exterm;pafo,a :,
: practicaiiy one year. and the auaran.
i 'ihe on the States lifted. With this
i assurance the Dipping Act was passed
t oy The Legislature in 1917 with little
r opposition, and the work of tick ar.d;.
catioh begun 1t is now the last half G
, OF tne second year of dipping. and nm '
July OF this year but ten parishes in f
'ne State have been permitted. condi- d
uonaliy' to discontinue dipping. Three
Oh this number were free when wo ho T
gan last year. The dipping law has
NOT Drought the early good results to
our farmers and stock raisers boped III
ior' and were promised, but ON the "
contrary has brought our hill farmer.
with no pasturage and cattle running
oh tne range, much hardship and ex-
pense' loss OF time from. crops, and in "A
jury and loss of cattle by careless and
incompetent dipping. 1t has also
brought about very serious econom;o
problem. and the parishes of Wipn and
urant' as well as most other parishes
Oh the State, will hardly be able 70 ocr
continuous dipping THROUGH Civ
another year for lack of funds 70 nau sta
Inc heavy expenses found NECESSARY the
1ersonally l am willing, if we have for
unds' TO give the matter sill further
ests and cooperation as long as the To
aw IS on the Statute books. and do not +
want TO be here understood as favoring my
ne violation OF the law This is the | ST,
ourth year that l have tried to din M.
egolarly the few cattle that I possess 4 erno
peciai taxes to raise funds necessary y @s
Or this purpose. Our parish funds asst
ave been drawn upon until exhausted, ject
nd we are now running in debt, with imp'
Their needs and demands and our par M
hes neglected and going by default cano
DR. lack of funds. The dipping law COVE
as proven very drastic sand with too Z;
luch authority vested in the State crow,
i've stock Sanitary Board. Many e >,
arish Inspectors have proven unfit for vote
ne work, and have no regard for time ON;
r expense incurred on the people, and v;do
fear that if the act is not amended .,
ia' '"a, NC ioi0eu " UP oii III Hon
if We can get the funds to tb;s
o so, as the police jury nor any other d,s;
va, o,i'.ei mas anyso as 70 when we ing
re tick free and when we are not. /
m therefore in favor of reapealing or a':
mending the present law, and put the ,
latter back into the hands of our par 'A"
hes for the foregoing and the follow elno
~ reasons:
and
1t is very questionable in my mind, ;s in
fter having first given the whole oxor
ropostion close thought and study, For
we shall ever be able to permanently 6ed
i0 en'ie'S 'iii''"a'e Tic ieAas wou
'Fei ''eA aH~i oaf ea.eie anu othef cand
We stock are confined in closed pas -
Tres, and We are not prepared or yet hpt
lady for stock law. l believe that Dar
SN' VIII. ie0c.u' anu VIC 'naii iioni prop
me to time find it necessary to dip NOT
OCCASIONALLY in the summer season. noI;,
his believe no one will object to do POI Fl
lg. The State of Mississippi appears for
q the map tick free since 1917, but as oor,
matter of fact practically two-thirds zat;,
the counties of the State are still ns;t
ipping. The States of California, ocra
outh Carolina, Arkansas, Kentucky, from
nd Tennessee are referred to as hav- font
y ek'erfhina'eu 'he iexas ieVer tiek, Hor'
ut these states are practically out of the
he tick zone, and never were but light foo
infected. The warm Gulf States dacv
re the natural home and breeding tors
lace of this particular species of tick, Dem
40 all o'ner 'ichs ior 'nat matter anu men
ill make him much more difficult to mart
if it can be done at all, tn
IAN farther north where zero weather serv
revails for long seasons every year. and
The Federal quarantine, while sup ton
osed to prevent our ticky cattle from utiv,
lfecting free herds when we ship to tern
larket, has turned millions of dollars thro
, yrof; r., m tba haaf fr,,ot nc mon oro,