The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-26
The Tick Fight

An obstacle which threatened to delay the final extermination of the cattle fever tick in Oklahoma is believed to have been surmounted when the Oklahoma state leg islature recently appropriated s40,O00 to aid the work in counties where property is of small assessable value. Through this help it is believed that several of the counties unable to complete tick eradi- cation on their own resources will be placed this year or next year in the ter ritory freed from the tick and from tho federal restrictions against the move ment of cattle from tick-infested terri tory
 According to recent reports, systematic tick eradication work is being carried on in counties heretofore neglected. The re- ports indicate that public as we'll as of ficial sentiment is backing the effort to rid the state of the parasite which has impeded the development of profitable live stock raising and balanced farming.
 The activty of the campaign against the cattle fever tick in Georgia is shown by the fact that a number of counties in which active work is not yet begun are preparing to build dipping vats this year and to do other preliminary work in order to prepare for an aggressive fight against the cattle parasite. The field of- flee at Atlanta of the bureau of animal industry, received more applications for assistance in vat building early in the season than it was able to care for, but efforts are being made to meet all de- mands
 l Practically all the counties scheduled to do systematic eridication work this year finished their preliminary arrange n,ents in April. and began systematic dipping. Reports from Georgia describe the headway that is being made as very satisfactory.
 Reports to the bureau of animal indus try tell of work in the tick infested sec tens of North Carolina that promise er- fective work in the late summer ana fall of this year and throughout the sea- son of 1920 in driving out the destructive cattle parasite.
 l Preliminary work, in which the con- struction of dipping vats plays an inn portant part, is being conducted In nearly every county where the tick holds sway. l For instance. Beaufort county has agreed | irnn ediately to construct 20 yats. approx l in,ately half of the number that will De | required before systematic work can pc I begun. Pitt county and Bertie county 1 likewise have begun vat constructlon'
 and active work is going forward m otner i counties. . Plenty of ammunition for use m th1s
 years campaign against the cattle fever | tick is on hand in Arkansas Eariy III ! the season 180 tons of arsenic hau' peen paid for and delivered to the counties con- ducting eradication work, and IL was es- timated that not more than lo tons au- ditional would be required in the state
 for this season
 With this supply of material on hand, added to the fact that 1892 cattle d1ppins
 yats are available for use, and that LOCAL l officials are evidencing marked dfspo-
 sition to cooperate, the prospects Tor pig
 results this year are regarded as e@-
 tremely encouraging
 Considerably less tick infestation was
 found at the opening of the season than
 had been expected, and this was especial
 ly true in counties where systematc WorN
 was carried on last year. This conditioIl
 rras attributed to the fact that work was
 started fully six weeks earlier than m
 any previous year. and that much ,s ornans mope territory than in former years IS oIsan-
 iZed and actively at work. Local author
 itaes and interested citzens, moreover.
 rnere more determined than ever that
 d;nning should be regular and thorough.