Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-06-08
COLQUITT FACES
new TICK War
Cattle Owners Inform Officials
They VIII Quit Dipping
July /

MOULTRIE, June Cattle own
ers from all sections of Colquitt
ca7ntv At a mass meeting held here
Tuesday passed resolution pledglhs
themselves 10 refuse to dip their cat
flo after July /. A number OF the
sneakers urged an immediate suspen-
sion of the work, but finally the ad-
vocates of the plan decided to give
the authorities one more month 10
wind up the campaign, won out
The cattle owners came to Moul-
trie primarily Cor the purpose OF ap-
nearing before the commissioners
and urging them to stop the tick
fight. but the crowd was so large
that it was decided to hold meeting
in the court house auditorium and
invite the commissioners and those in
charge of the tick eradication cam
paign to be present. The meeting
at times stormy, the chairman being
unable to maintain order.
Nearly all of the speakers were
free in their criticism of the authori-
ties who have been directing the tick
fight. They asserted that they were
in favor of tick eradication but were
opposed to having to drive their cat
tie to watts about twice a month for
the rest of their lives. The tick Grad
ication work was started in Colquitt
more than years ago and some of the
speakers at the meeting asserted that
the had been dipping their cattle
regularly and Systematically ever
since and that now they were ''weary
of well doing" A. D. Roland, chair
man of the meeting, insisted that the
whole trouble grew out of lack of
uniformity in enforcing the dipping
regulations THE inspectors have
told us that no matter how free of
ticks ninety-eight per cent of the
cows in the county are they can be
re-infected by the ticky- two per
cent, Mr. Roland said, adding "Yet
they haven't forced this small minor
ity to dip their cattle. We who have
been inclined to obey the law have
been made the boats and l am tired
of it,
He then called upon the meeting to
join with him in seeing that the of
ticials themselves do their duty and
require the cattle owners in districts
that haven't yet been releasd to dip
their cows.
The county is now practically tick
free 4and Mr. Roland and other con-
sentative speakers at the meeting
pointed out that if the work were
stopped just at this time all of the
vast sum of money and effort that
had been spent in the campaign
would be thrown away.
1t is believed here by an aggres-
sive effort the work can be conclud-
ed during the month of June. In
case it is not just what action the
commissioners and the officials in
charge of the work will do remains
to be seen. There is state law now
that forces cattle owners to dip their
animals in those counties waging war
on ticks.
iesis recalled here, however, that
when the tick fight was started about
seven years ago and the period re-
curing the enforced dipping of cattle
arrived that the cattle owners of the
county, more than 1000 strong met
here, and put every one on notice
that they wouldn't dip. The COM
mlssloners then suspended the work,
but did not tear up the watts. The
work was resumed a year or so later.
But all kinds of obstacles were
thrown in the way of those in charge
OF the campaign. Several dipping