The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-02-19

by the following platform OF princi.
pies:
at ia the intention of the Florida
NJ p.,n L,aSut 80 iHa:a .OI.:urd ~
the enactment of bill by the next
Legislature to prohibit the running at
large of livestock, to become opera
tive January l, 1928, by a referendum
vote of the people, and containing
provision that any county or part OF
county which does not want to be
included in the operation of the law
may, by local option vote. exempt
itself, making provision at the time
of exemption for the protection of ad-
joining or surrounding counties, from
depredations by its open-range stock"
mo fairer plan for potecting all in
terests, including those of the cattle
men, could be suggest, ed" declared
DR.. j. w. Sample of Haines City,
president of the League. land | do
not see how any fair-minded legislator
can afford to cast his vote against
submitting the proposition to vote of
the public"
MiIk-Tick Menace
Not merely from Development
retarding standpoint, but from one of
health as we'll. does the No-Fence
/ League call for abolition OF the tick
infested range. 1t is contended that
the ticky COW gives little milk, and
that of no nutrtive value; that the
milk merely fills the stomach of hun
CRY babies without filling their veins
and arteries with life-giving. flesh
/ forming nourishment-and that the
calf of the ticky cow grows up into
starved. stunted maturity because il
has no nutritious food.
| Alfred R. Nelson. president of the
Florida Dairyman's Association. in his
annual report to that body at Orlando,
said:
ITO my mind the greatest and most
serious menace we have today in
Florida to the successful and rapid de-
velopment of the dairy industry. is the
Texas fever tick. OF all the obstacles
in the way of development of the in
dustry, the greatest is the Texas tick
This pest is ever taking its toll in the
decreased milk flow. due to- it's blood
sucking habits.
Sometime ago when the no-fencc
agitation was at its highest. | was
approached on the subject by friend
OF mine. This man is range cattle
man of more progressiveness than the
average range cattle man. In fact, he
is for tick eradication, and is even
dipping, trying to lessen the ravages
on his herds by the tick. When |
asked him what he thought Of the
movement. he said: "Why, it will ruin
the range cattle industry if we have
a statewide no-fence law | answered
that | could hardly agree with him on
that point. However, if it was the
only way we could eradicate the Tex
as fever tick | was for the no-fence
law.
1T seems to me that we shall have
to get together, and if the range man
continues to refuse to get into the
work for results, we will have to pro-
vide means whereby we can force him
to so isolate himself and his cattle
that he cannot hold back this work so
necessary for the development of the
State. We should as a body be pre-
pared to support any law that will
tend TO help the industry, and in most
cases initiate necessary legislation
Tick eradication of sources comes
first"
Horticultural Society's ASTON
The attitude of the Florida State
! Horticultural Society on the absorb
ing subject is shown by the following
resolutions, adopted at the beginning
of the fight in 1920:
Whereas the output of groves and
farms Of Florida has now reached the
aggregate of more than one hundred
and fifteen million dollars annually.
and the aggregate value of such farms
and groves is approximately one bill
lion dollars; and
Where the total value of the range
stock of Florida is assessed as of the
value of only thirty million dollars
and the annual output OF range ami
mails is five million dollars or less;
and
Whereas the owners of range stock
are about | per cent of the total pop
ulation of the State and their range
stock is 3 per cent of the assessed
values or less; and the roaming at
large of such live stock under present
laws work hardship upon the grove
and farm owners and makes 1t neces-
sary for them to build and maintain
expensive fences; and such roaming
animals, in spite of such fences, do
serious damage annually;
Therefore, Be it Resolved by the
Florida State Horticultural Society,
That we endorse the platform of the