The Pulaskian., 1920-04-29

a large variety in the tick family, but that the fever tick was the only one especially injurious. He stated that it was very difficult to tell one tick from the other with the naked eye, but that the fever tick has markings which are plainly discernible with a handglass. He spoke of cleaning up states where dipping is more difficult than in Pulaski County, and begged the farmers to cooperate with his de- partment.
 pr Rosenberger consented to the suggestion of Chairman Hicks to send an expert into each dipping district to see which ones were free. He ad- Vised the gathering that Faulkner County would soon start to work on the eradication of the tick in it's in fested portions and that the govern ment quarantine would be replaced on Saline County, the enforcement of which would bring relief to the town ships which border upon that county. 1 It was also stated that the Saline and other bordering county farmers who permitted their tieky cattle to cross the county line would be prosecuted.
 Knapp Makes Suggestions.
 Bradford Knapp made quite a talk to the farmers, pointing out to them the benefits of tick eradication, and asserting that he did not favor con- tinuing dipping when, with proper CO., operation, the county should be cleaned up in one year. He sympa- thized with the Pulaski County farm CT, and suggested that it might be well to eliminate dipping entirely until the malcontents were given an opportu- nity to realize that they were losing materially through infection of their cattle. stated that until then ab- solute cooperation was impossible and that unless every animal in the county which could carry ticks had been dipped, the quarantine in all sec l IlouS COulQ nOl pC 1AIO0s
 County and State dipping officials also spoke and told of their difficulty in getting farmers to cooperate in fhs movement. It was intimated that farmers did not assist the officials in getting those opposed to dipping to bring all their animals in. On the other hand the farmers claimed that it was impossible to get the wild cat tie off the range, and Dr. Rosenberger advised that animals which can not be managed must be slaughtered, as they are dangerous and unless dipped will prevent an entire eradication of the tick.
 Many sections of the county are now tick free, according to the off cials, but dipping dates were an nounced for the year with the inten- tion of releasing those found not to be infected. They stated that the government quarantine had been raised against this county with the understanding that the farmer would continue to cooperate with the State and county forces. They would not guarantee that the tick would be en- tirely eradicated in Pulaski County this year unless every farmer dipped in the fourteen or twenty-eight day periods, as designated by the over seers and every tick-bearing animal in the district dipped each time.
 Taxpayers Are interested.
 MT. Hicks declared in concluding the meeting that the taxpayers of Pu- laski County were as much interested as the farmer. He instimated that county funds had been spent without adequate returns and that it must not occur again. He gave the impression that dipping would continue in the districts where it is necessary and not in the others, and that where dipping is necessary absolute cooperation will be insisted upon. This, he i'm piled, was justice to the farmer who had obeyed the law relative to dip ping and that the slackers could no longer be permitted to endanger the stock of the faithful law abider
 Cost Farmers $soo,ooo.
 Some of the township representa- tives had gone well into statistics to show where they had been treated un- fairly. One township spokesman inti- mated that cattle dipping in his sec tion alone had in the last four years cost the farmers over $800,O0O in time consumed.
 Dr. Rosenberger readily agreed to cooperate with MT. Hicks in seeing that incompetent overseers should be eliminated, both expressing the opin- ion thai fha oyarsper who did not