The Pensacola journal., 1920-04-09
BAD ADVERTISING FOR PENSACOLA.


The Journal has always been in favor Of tick
eradication, and of the first newspapers in
Florida to advocate the dipping of cattle for the
eradication of this menace to the raising OF live
stock
The present state dipping law. which practically
amounts to local option. will doubt give place
during the next legislative session to compulsory
law, governing the entire state.
Pensacola and Escambia county getting some
unenviable notoriety. because of the movement Of
certain politicians who seek to ride into favor with
the farmers by opposing the eradication of the tick,
by dipping or this movement, and the support it is
receiving the Jacksonville Times Union editorial
ly says in part:
1.-The work OF dipping cattle for the eradication OF
the cattle tick in Florida proceeding with salts
faction in most OF the counties and the reports
show that greater number Of cattle being dip
ped than before.
'These is still found some opposition to this pro-
gressive project of the unprogressive
tions of the and this sentiment is being fos
tered by Of the unprogressve range cattle
men, who would rather the cattle tick gradually
destroy their heards than make the effort to destroy
this blood sucking tick, which nsnuates the cat
tie fever germ while it extracts the life blood of
the animal and leaves its victim in such weakened
condition that it expect to become fat
enough to bring any kind of price the market
gressive agei And are expected to eat the beef
from these bony specimens infected with the Texas
cattle fever and unable to stand bSh in the solu-
ton that would destroy their enemies-or at least
| that is what their owners claim, when it comes
dipping time in the spring. Think of admitting
that you owned animal that literally being
destroyed by something that you could get rid of
with little effort and expense and also think of
| admitting that you owned animal that wasn't
20 hath, ito
because you hadn't provided protection for the
helpless animal from this nsistent tick provided
sufficient feed to make it able to take bath
I'VE had thought that Pensacola and Escambia
county was be counted among the progressive sec
tions Of Florida but this doesn't look like it. If
are to have a genuine live stock industry in
the state must clean up the Texas cattle fever
| tick and the sooner it is done the better will
be off. We the last state in the Union in point
of location but we should not be last this great
movemalt in which several other Southern states
have cleaned up the tick and not going to be,
either, if we know our people.
Petitions being circulated and signed in eEs-
Gambia county asking the candidates for the egis-
lature whether not they believe in dipping cat
tie and ii it claimed the petitioners there are
other means of fighting, the deadly tick than by
dipping OF course they pick them off at
a time but the cattle who never see their
woods cattle for months and decline to go to the
small expense of dipping, would scarcely be willing
| to pay boys to pick the nasty ticks off by
hand. Then, too, these wild cattle really wild.
when they are able to be and they would probably
refuse to stand still long enough to have their enc
mics destroyed, because they cannot comprehend
what the supposed to know about.
FLORIDA has too much at stake to risk any further
delay in this eradication movement and if the cat
| tie think they undo what has already been
done in the state at cost of millions of dollars.
just to satisfy their personal gains, they have an
other think coming and they will be thinking the
other way before the next rolls around.
There is too much money invested in fenced in
ranches and daires and good grade and pure-bred
cattle in this state to allow any handful of unpro
gressve range cattle to dictate the policy of
Florida in this important movement"