The Pulaskian., 1919-06-06

anu cause great MANY COWS 10 lose
their calves. 1t also has been the
direct cause of the death of a great
many cattle and a number of owners
of nice lunches Of cattle have sold
their cattle at a serious loss to avoid
paying fines for not dipping, because
they could not hire help to take the
cattle to the dipping watts.
If man only has one COW he has
to lose a half day or more every two
weeks to take her to the dipping vat
and numbers of farmers say that they
have almost lost their crops from
having to take time to hunt and pen
their cattle and then take them to the
watts the next day.
AS to the seriousness of this job.
One lady told me that becoming un-
easy about her husband not returning
from the woods one hot day, she went
to look for him and found him lying
on the ground unconscious. She ran
to the vat and informed the man in
charge the reason he could not get
his cattle there. The next day he
took them to another vat and they
were dipped, but Notwithstanding this
he was fined. The reason he had no
help was because his son was in the
army.
A Compromise.
/ would suggest that all farmers
feed their cattle sulphur, which prac-
tically every farmer has known all
his life will keep the ticks off his
cattle and then / should think the
government could very gracefully
pronounce the cattle tick free and re-
lease them from the quarantine.
How to Give the Sulphur.
Take one pound of sulphur and mix
it well with ten pounds of salt and
then salt your cattle two or three
times week with the mixture. This
amount will be sufficient for fifty
head one time. The cattle like it and
it is splendid tonic for them. AS
soon as you commence feeding it you
will notice an improvement in the
cattle and not tick or louise will stay
on them. AS soon as the sulphur
gets in their blood any ticks that may
be on the cattle will turn lose. Sui
phur is also fine remedy for lice on
horses or other stock including hogs.
No Danger.
A great many people are afraid to
give sulphur to their cattle for fear
it will injure them. There is no
danger at all in giving it internally
but if you sprinkle it on horse and
he gets wet it will make him stiff.
1t is fine remedy for people
taken internally. C. B. Beall informed
me that his father always when he
went seining would take a big dose
of sulphur before going into the
water to overcome the danger from
getting wet. Formerly it was custom
airy with people at the opening of
spring to give each member of the
family spoonful of sulphur in
molasses.
Prove Your Remedy.
Numbers of farmers have sug-
gested to me from the time cattle
dipping commenced until now that all
that is necessary is to give their
stock sulphur. Now | wish to again
insist that the farmers all use
sulphur, it should be nearly as cheap
by the barrel as salt, and show the
government that you know how, can
and are keeping the ticks off your
cattle and then you can demand
and will secure a release from COM
pulsory dipping.
In Conclusion.
After talking with cattle men from
the west who voluntarily dipped |
must admit that the evidence shows
the ticks can be gotten rid of. | am
confirmed in this opinion by the sue
cess of the government in eliminating
the mosquito. In fact / am sorry
that the government did not elimi-
nate the mosquito first for it is just
about as injurious to cattle as the
tick to say nothing about the millions
of people it has killed. We know the
government is enforcing dipping and
| would suggest that everybody CO.
operate with it, by not only dipping
their cattle promptly, but by using
sulphur and other remedies to get rid
of the ticks SO that all of Pulaski
county will be declared tick free this
fall
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