The Pulaskian., 1919-06-06
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

take the lead. The other car got
ahead then and said their route was
straight ahead. The owner got out
and asked Mr.. Dodge if he knew me.
He said he did not. The gentleman
introduced himself to me as a regu-
lar reader of the Pulaskian. He said
in fact he had been until lately the
Pulaskian's first and most regular
reader for he and Mr.. Dodge run
type-setting company which set up
the Pulaskian and it had been his
duty and greatest pleasure to read
the Pulaskian first. He then told me
he was Mr.. Lipke.
| This is Monday. l am sitting on
nice clean porch of vacant house
off to one side of the Howell pike. I
was walking along that thorough
fare about $50 a. m. when it COM
menced to rain and seeing the road to
the house I made a break for
shelter. AS it was raining | COM
menced to write my letter for the
Fulaskian which / couldn't write
while l was in the Pulaskian office,
for you know persons got no ex-
cuse to write a person a letter while
you are with him and it really had
begun to look like / wasn't going to
have any excuse for writing the
Fulaskian this week. The Howell
pike was promoted, encouraged and
built largely by w. S. Howell. I
don't know just how he managed it.
Maybe he just talked his neighbors
into doing the work. 1t was anyway
very simple matter There was
nothing at all to do but to haul
gravel out of the Little Maumelle,
where there is enough for all the
roads of Pulaski county and dump it
in the grade and level it off The
grade was an old Niemeyer tram
way. 1t is one of the best pixies in
Pulaski county and it is the road to
the big cattle ranch. They have cut
it up little in places in hauling
cotton seed cake over it. Some of
the culverts have washed out, but
Mr.. Ferguson had the lumber on the
ground to repair them when I was
over the road before. This pike is
the first road leaving the Ferndale
and Protho Camp ground road to the
left after you leave Ferndale and
cross the Little Maumelle.
SHOULD CATTLE DIPPING END?
With the blowing up of dipping
watts in other counties and the practi-
cally solid opposition of all farmers
in Pulaski county to the government
compulsory requirement of cattle
dipping it would appear that the,
politicians would give this question
more attention than they do. The
farmers argue that all their liberty
has been taken away from them and
look upon the reasons given by the
original thirteen colonies as mild in
deed compared with their grievances
of today. 1t is not my intention to
take sides one way or the other on
this question, but merely to report
the condition of discomfort that |
find in the county. Last week | asked
nearly every man met his opinion
and only found one man, who could
even tolerate the watts.
In one community they have dipped
for four years. They claim there is
not tick to be found in their terri
tory and that the quarantine against
them should be raised In another
community they claim dipping does
not eradicate the ticks. My experience
Ebears them out in this statement for
/ got more ticks on me than ever be-
FORE
The officials say that they do not
expect to eradicate the ordinary
wood tick, but it is the fever tick they
are after. Cattle shippers say that
when they get to market with a car
of cattle from territory placed above
the quarantine line with cattle from
this so-called tick free country with
the ordinary wood ticks on them that
Notwithstanding their papers showing
tick clean cattle the inspectors point
at the ticks on them and place the
lcattle with the ticky cattle and they
have to sell at the reduced price.
Injurious to Cattle.
| Farmers claim that dipping always
lessons the flow of milk and fire.
quently dries up cows with young