The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-04-30
Deadly Cattle Tick Badly
Walloped in First
Round Of
Campaign
More Bloodsuckers Dipped Last
Month Than in Any March
Since Ca mpaign
Against Cattle

tie fever tick can be compared to a
boxing match of nine rounds-each
month from March to December be-
ing round-it is true that the tick
got thorough trouncing in the first
round. and the bell rang with the
parasite figuratively hanging over
the ropes.
March of this year brought more
dippings OF cattle for the tick than
were recorded in any other March
since the Federal and State govern
ments began to fight the parasite in
1906. According to reports from all
tick-infested States, received and
compiled by the Bureau of Animal
Industry, L. S. Department of Agri-
culture, 1,203,497 cattle went through
'the canals to prosperity" in March
1919 This compares with o06,5O5 in
March. 1910, and 720.552 in March,
1917.
This years results came from an
effort to dip That Tick in March"
with the object of preventing SO far
as possible the reproduction of the
parasite. The ticks that were killed
in March will produce no thousands
and millions of descendants to suck
cattle blood all summer. With the
flying start in March, and with con-
tinued vigorous attacks through the
dipping season, it is believed that the
tick eradicators have good chances
of reaching their aim of cleaning up
10000 more square miles of territory
this year-more than ever has been
released in one year from the Fed
eral quarantine against the pest.
Healthy increases in the number of
dipping vats available for use also
are shown by reports to the Bureau.
In March, 1917, there were 1906
vats; anil in March, 1918, there were
22,879. This year there were 2o,255.
A summary of the late reports
shows that Alabama with $3.50 vats
had 14.2S4 dippings in March; Ar
kansas, 2,3Ol vats, 1876 dippings !;
Florida lila watts, o4,o05 dippings );
Georgia l,22O vats, 182,7O4 dippings;
Louisiana 4,45o vats, 253,l2o dippings; !;
Mississippi. 5,553 watts. 128,7O3 dip
pings; Oklahoma, 1O53 vats, 44,o38
dippings; South Carolina, 8Ol vats,
l,447 dippings; North Texas, 4,o0s
watts, 273,937 dippings; South Texas,
l,22O vats. 66,S4 dippings. Prelimi-
nary and reorganization work was
conducted in North Carolina.
Ample provision has been made in
every State for dipping vats, and an
adequate supply of dipping materials
has been distributed to the counties
that will likely need them this seas
ONT Satisfactory progress in con-
structing vats and in preparing the
dipping solution was made despite
excessive rains.
In Texas, which has the largest
amount Of infested territory, encour-
aging progress is reported from
Zone No. l, which includes the ter
ritiory in which eradication work is
to be pushed vigorously this year.
Nearly all the counties in Zone No.
l have made appropriations for the
work, and construction of dipping
watts is being pushed as rapidly as
possible. 1t is believed that the gen.
eral dipping Of cattle every two
weeks will be conducted in nearly all
of Zone No. l during the present
year.
The Oklahoma State legislature,
by making special appropriation of
$4,000 assisted several counties in
the southeast, corner of the state
which seemed unable to raise funds
with which to carry on county work.
With this assistance it is believed
that Oklahoma is now in a position
to get rid of the tick by the end of
1920.
The Arkansas legislature recently
appropriated 100000 for tick eradi-
cation in that state ,and with the
large force of Federal. state and
county employees now at work it is
believed that all of the state, with
the exception of seven or eight coun-
ties, will be released from quaran-
tine next December l. The Louis
lana forces seem determined to
wind up the tick fight this year, and