Americus times-recorder., 1919-12-02
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TT is COMING.

- EFT us think of Kris H. Kringle, who will soon
be scheduled here, and we'll hear his sleigh
bells jingle on the frosty atmosphere. Long our
:, thoughts have been of battling, and of captains
in their pride and of blood and dry bones rat
Ting where some fellows crawled and died.
We've been wont to walk and mngle with the
things opposed to mirth; let walk with ].
Kris Kringle who is boosting peace on earth.
We have been immersed in trouble, have
sloshed around in care we have long been pull
ing double and our team mate was despair. Ev
cry kind of tribulaton that the grief works could
produce has been dumped upon this nation
every evil has been loose But the Christmas
time is coming when sorrows find release
and K. Kringle's harp is humming with the meo-
/ dies of peace | glad to greet the season
when Dad Kringle comes to town, when there
/ isn't rhyme in protest frown. In
| the snowy copse and dingle, in the spinney and
the glen, will root for ]. K. Kringle, boost his
| nobs and boost again.
the pens and being sacrificed in order to find sale
at all.
OF course we expected the tick quarantine
to be raised December l. according to the program
began last spring und.r Dr. Martin, government
veterinarian, sent here to superintend the dipping
for farmers have practically all co-operated in
the work to the limit. But there is a great deal of
satisfaction in seeing the job accomplished. And
we begin reaping the benefit at once. Next year
shall many of our neighboring counties
Dooly, Crisp and. others-undertake the work and
put the tick out of business and before we know
il the whole state will be IIninfested
In 1906 a solid band of red-red indicating
infested area on the U. S. Bureau of Animal Indus
try map-covered all of the Southern states The
quarantine line extended from Virginia to Texas
and reappeared in California. The attack against
the tick since o06 has driven the parasite out of
California, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee. South
Carolina and Mississippi-completely in the infect
ed portions of the four states first named. and
completely enough in the last two to justify their
release from federal quarantine.
The territory released this year is divided be-
tween six states. Alabama leads the list with II
99l square miles placed in the unrestricted area
The others are louisiana with 9,2oo square miles;
Texas 6.047 square miles, Arkansas, s, 30 square
miles; Georgia, 6,942 square miles, and Oklahoma,
4, ,346 square miles No releases are ordered in
! Florida North Carolina where active work is
going in preparation for strong attacks next
year
Officials of the Bureau of Animal Industry
regard this years progress in the tick fight as en-
couraging and see in the results added reason for
believing that the tick will be completely driven
from American soil within few years. State and
county officials and farmers and livestock owners
generally have co-operated in good fashion with
the bureau force. The menace of the tick and what
the parasite has meant in annual damage of at
least $40, 900 600 to the Southern livestock indus
try appears to be well recognized The steady ad-
of the work is shown by the fact that in 906
726,5 sos square miles were tck-infested while the
December releases bring the area freed from quaran
tine to 509,084 square miles or 70 per cent of the
area originally placed under restrictions
! The areas freed from the tick this year are
placed in position to proceed with the develop
ment of their beef cattle raising and darying indus
tries without paying an annual tribute to the cattle
parasite Better cattle can be brought in without fea1
that they will contract the deadly fever that is car
ried by the tick
The determination of the tick from the South
clears the way for better agriculture of every sort
For instance it makes possible active work. with
regard to cattle in the Better Sires-Better Stock
campaign in which the United States Department
of Agriculture is cooperating with the states
That tick eradication pays has been answered
in every community freed of ticks by better cattle
better general agriculture better prices and highe
real eSta valuae he ~ araJiraF;op ba.