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Pensacola, Fla,
April 16, 1921.

pending before the state legislature,
they ought to be thoroughly discussed
by the public before being decided
either way. First comes the tick
eradication. / don't believe any own
er of live stock objects to losing all
the ticks in existence. and would rath-
err not have them on his stock, bat
they, like myself, object, to the way it
is done. They start out by sending
tick specialist" Cat a large fat SAL
ary) to take charge of the work and
he pretends to know the difference be-
tween tick that eats cattle and the
kind that eats other things, but he
don't know it is not necessary to have
the dipping solution so strong it will
! take the hair and hide also with the
ticks, but the stronger they can make
the solution the more chemicals have
to be bought and, of courCe, the more
somebody gets out of the deal and the
cattle owners and taxpayers foot the
bills. have made a study of the tick
business since it became so prominent
and believe I know more about it than
most of the experts ESQ caued). My
observations have taught me that the
kind of tick is determined by what
the tick is on, thus tick found on cat
tie is cattle tick, on a deer it is a deer
tick so of course if one is found on a
bed 1t is a bed tick, if on a parrot it
would be Polly-tick (politic) if on a
fan it would be a fan (a) tick, and if
one should get on the moon it would be
a lunaticCk The last three insects are
the ones that try to tell the farmers
what they have got to do with their
cattle. If a man wants the ticks to
eat his cattle that is his own bus
mess and no ono else.
The next subject is the so-called no.
fence law. I noticed an article in your
paper recently, where Mr.. Rowland
says majority of the people of Es-
Gambia county are opposed to it. I am
not so sure of this as 1 have found
there are many more in favor of it
than 1 had any idea of and 1 will tel
you why | am in favor of it.
First, If any thing is not worth feed
ing some and taking some care of, it
is not worth owning, and that is the
way many persons raise scrub cattle
and razor back hogs-by letting them
raise themselves on someone elses
property. With the "no-fence law the
persons who own hogs cattle, goats
and other live stock would have to
have them fenced in so they could not
break into other peoples crops, ETC.,
then the many town people who want
to live in the country could get a start
in the country without spending such
large amounts of money to fence their
crops as they would only have to fence
any stock they owned. If a man had
his stock fenced and he had an ami
m that a fanpa could oo5
he was responsible for the damage that
animal does to his neighbours property,
he would get rid of that animal in
short order, as it is now if such an
animal breaks down a neighbours fence,
and ruins a crop or does other dam
age and you tell the owner about it,
some of them will tell you to build
your fences stronger, and there are
some animals in Escambia county that
only solid stone or brick wall would
stand any chance of keeping them out.
and it would have to be pretty high
too, as you know some animals can
jump some. You may have heard of
1.-THE cow that jumped over the moon.
think she was an Escambia county
cow. Razor backs are not such high
jumpers, but they get there just the
same"
Many persons object TO fencing their
stock because the tax assessor could |
find out how many they have and they |
would have to pay taxes on them. Then |
there are some people who live off of
the stock running at large regardless |
of who it belongs to, and they would |
have to make other arrangements if |
the stock was fenced up. If all stock |
was kept under fence the highways |
would be bordered by many berries !
and flowers, and fruit trees could be
grown along the roadsides as are done |
in some plates. Our public highways |
would not be monopolized as cow
roosts. Did any of you automobiles,
ever run into q cOw-rOost when driving !
at night on the public roads? If you
have done much automobile driving
and ever struck a scrub or razor back
you know the quickest way to make
the finest stock in the country is to
bump it with an automobile even if it
is on the road you pay a heavy tax
to keep up and the scrub or razor back
is probably not even given in as tax
able at all. If we had the no-fence
law, the owners of scrubs and razor
backs would know they were not worth
feeding and paying taxes on and they
would get rid of them and get stock
that was worth having and taking care
of, then the tick would be eradicated
automatically without any specialists
or robbing the school fund as has
been done-because if the farmers had
good stock fenced in they would keep
the ticks off of them.
know the above facts as I have
been in two states where the fight
against the no-fence law was bitter,
but after trying it and finding such an
Improvement in every way they would
not go back to the old free-range con-
ditions as we have them here. 1t is
generally talked that one representa-
tive of Escambia county says he will
kill the no-fence law in Escambia d
county. While l have never been in
the Florida legislature I was of the
opinion there were several personst
this body but from the way 4
some fellows talk it would leave the
they were the whole legfs-