Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1919-03-07
Organize to Swat
the Cattle Tick

Representative Cattlemen and Others
From All Over the County Attend
Meeting Hero Tuesday-PlanneS
Tick Eradication.
As per previous call, between Is
and 100 representative farmers, cat
tie men and others from all sections
OF the county attended the tick Grad
ication meeting held here Tuesday,
and the result was that organised
work IL to start Immediately upon
the work of making this county tick
free. The fact 10 that Bryan county
10 one Of . few counties in this part
OF Oklahoma, which IL under tick
quarantine, and the result 10 poorer
cattle prices. and . shipping embar-
90 that makes tho COW business a.
most impossible here.
DR.. w. r. Scott, government tick
eradication expert, has been hers
some time, working up interest In
the work. and with the cooperation
shown and promised Tuesday, and
with county aid will plan 70 make
the county tick free and get the
quarantine raised within q yesr g
20. One years intensive work win
do II. DR.. Scott says.
Lots Of people DO not understaaA
the why and wherefore OF the tick
quarantine. and DR.. Scott In ~
dressing the men 1t the meeting laid.
the situation down 20 clearly that
this talk~esopoessa sat -oaco enl3GAto1t
ing and heipful to the whole ce0-
munity. and the NEWS reproduces
his remarks verbatim below:
Citizens Of Bryan County:
feel that you have not come 70
this meeting In response to our let
ters OF Invitation out Of idle curios-
ity when the backward spring has
| made Il necessary that every avail
able hour Of daylight should b
! spent In the field. =
You have come for 4 purpose ]
trust with Z determination that to-
day you are meeting to seal the
doom Of the tick and take up the slo-
gan, more and Better Cattle"
Gentlemen, II you are determined
to make this resolve stick, then this
meeting will not have been In vaan,
but will be an epoch making period
In the history Of your county; the
coming generation will tell how thsy
could remember when ucks covered
the cattle, killing many and keep
Ing the rest poor, Just - We hear
the older men tell how In early
days deer In herds and buffalo IN
packs roamed the range. To yea
men will be the credit Of haying
fought the fever tick to 10 sxtsrm-
ination, and making possible the
growing Of the two blades OF grass
where but one grew before.
A member Of Congress on the a.
ricultural Committee In Washingtea
whose name I fall to recall, made
this statement: II had rather have
/. the honor Of freeing tho South q
the tick than the honor Of captur.
Ing 4 fortified city" Meaning By
that statement that the former con-
Quest II one Of lasting benefit to hu-
manity-to all posterity. while the
latter, Q conquest for selfish motives.
There was . vail between the seAr
tinent Of North America and Europe
until Columbus dared to sail the IN.
chartered seas and break through
that wall, giving u the land we now
enjoy. His was o conquest for pos
terity.
Today there runs q wall on your
south formed by the Red river and
on your west by WaShita and on the
north by Johnston county line; q
discriminating wall. the national
quarantine line. Arc you going to
break 1t down or will you allow II
to discriminate between you and the
neighborins counties who have gons
over it's top?
II Marshall county wants your cattle
but not your ticks. Johnston county
may wish to buy bunch Of choict
feeders but they must come In tict
free for when these counties ship Il
market they unload their cattle IL
the native division privileged to e
to any part Of the u. 8. for any pur
pose with competitive buyers to bid
When we ship to market our cattle
are pushed off to the back Of th'
stock yards with the large whit
sign reading Quarantine Division.
meaning NO one wants our cattle bu
the butcher.
Texas says to US. Keep your tick!
cattle on your own side OF the riv
, ar" and 80 I may 90 on to tell yo'
\ OF the states from North Caro!lnl
to Texas. who are wasing the sam,
war and each year gaining NOR
| territory.
n Several states are entirely releas
h ed. several have passed state-wid
tick eradication laws.
n Mississippi wan the first driv:nl
II through . tick free wedge fror
Memphis to the Gulf. In ono yea
H her dairy products hoar'y double
y and her imports Of pure bred cattl
m exceeded any year OF quarantine. J.
N :wo years the shipment of beef cal
m i;c Increased 181 per cent. DO!
81 tick eradication pay Can we lone
N er afford to sleep on our rights whe
two or three years enjoyment Z
y tick-free privileges will repay th
cost of the work?
M Let us get busy and move the lin
Y to the south and east anG what wi
Y happen. There will be an epidemi
W not of tick fever, but of pure bre
cattle fever. The fancier of th
IV dairy hraQda will fntrOduc6 the HO