The log cabin Democrat., 1920-10-29
S3,OOO NEEDED TO
 ERADICATE TICKS $500 FUND INADEQUATE Work to be Either Wholly Discontin- ued or Completed Next Year,
 Says Dr. Rice.

The appropriation of $500 by the Faulkner quorum court will be en- tirely inadequate to complete the pro- gram of cattle ticke eradication in the county next year and unless the next legislature makes an appropriation by which state and federal funds will be available it will require the allow ance of sufficient amount of county warrants to net S3.000 in cash, if the work is to be carried on in 1921, ac- cording to Dr. A. W. Rice, supervisor for Faulkner county of tick eradction work
 "In the absence of a county apneo- prlation for this year, we have silh8y been trying to hold the clean terri tory in Faulkner county intact this year and prevent the ceinfestation of territory from which the ticks had been eradicted," Dr. Rice said "I am informed that it will be the policy of the government to withdraw alto- gether and to place quarantine pro- hibiting the movement of cattle from any point in the county next year, un- less funds are available with which to complete fully and finally the tick eradicton work in one more year. If we cannot go ahead with systematic dipping wherever needed throughout the entire county next year, it will be a waste of funds to continue the work as it has been done this year and the tick eradcton work will be withdrawn. This, of course, will also mean the loss of all the money and effort that has already been expended, as it would require but a short time for the whole county again to become reinfcsted with cattle ticks"
 Dr. Rice said it would require the services of at least four inspectors and to pay them and to purchase the chemicals for the dipping vats would mean an outlay of $3,000 in cash. It is possible, but not probable, he said, that the legislature will make an ap- propriation for local tick eradiction work and in such event each dollar of state money would be matched by dollar of federal money. In this event sufficient funds might be se- cured from the state and govern ment, Dr. Rice said, to pay the salar- ies of the inspectors and the county would only have to purchase the chem icals. The state authorities, however, have expressed doubt that such an appropriation will be made, Dr. Rice said.
 While the appropriation made by the quorum court is only $500, the county court has authority to expend for this purpose as much more as It regards necessary, and the actual amount to be allowed will be in the discretion of the county court. A con- tinuance of the government tick era diction in this county will therefore depend upon whether Judge E. l.. Smith, who will be elected next Tues day, sees fit to adopt the government program apd complete the work of freeing the county from cattle ticks, or permit Faulkner to be placed under a complete quarantine.
 The adoption of stock law by the townships in which it is being pro- posed will greatly facilitate the tick extermination work, pr. Rice said. The northeast one-fourth of the county, which is now under quarantine, along with adjacent territory, will vote on stock law, and if it it carries it will be impossible for ticky cattle to run at large and infest the range, but by local quarantine the presence of cattle ticks can be confined to individual herds, where the parasites can easily be eradicated.