The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1922-02-17
$4,000 ALOT OF
MONEY TO Lose
But County Commissioners
Want To Throw That Much
Overheard


lively go back into the Texas
Fever quarantine column after
March 6, 1922, unless the County
Commissioners loosen up and
agree to carry on the work of
tick eradication in this county
this year, declares DR.. VIM.
Moore, State Veterinarian, in a
letter to this newspaper. Pas
quotank has spent about $1,000
in tick eradication work in the
last three years. Continuation
of the work this year will cost
ST 600 to $l,800. Failure to con-
tinue the work now looks like
confession upon the part of the
County Commissioners that they
have thrown 5000 of the peo-
pies money overheard. The
money may as well be considered
money thrown away if the work
of tick eradication is abandoned
and the county thrown back into
quarantine.
n. Burfoot, Chairman of the Board
of County Commissioners says that he
is opposed to continuing the work of
tick eradication because 'the Depart
ment of Agriculture men deceived u.s."
Mr.. Burfoot says that when the Con-
missioners entered into the work in
1919 they were assured that the tick
would be eradicated in year. But tho
40 dipping vats were built in every Sec
tion of the county at Q cost Of several
thousand dollars and several inspectors
employed to dip cattle, the tick was not
eradicated in year and the work had
to be carried on another year, and an
other. "And now," says Mr.. Burfoot,
1--WE are asked to 60 into it for another
year with no assurance that the job
will be cleaned up this year." On the
otheT nduu tue cldte duu eucTdi duIu-
critics declare that the work has Jagged
in Pasquotank because of lack of CO.
operation upon the part of the farmers,
many refusing to have their herds
dipped until compelled by court deci-
sions. Waiting on court decisions is re-
sponsible for the delay, says DR..
Moore. DR.. Moore says:
THE North Carolina Department of
Agriculture and the U. s. Department
of Agriculture, in cooperation with
your county commissioners and the citi-
zens of your county, have conducted tick
eradication for the past several years.
On December 1, 1920, your county was
released from State and Federal quar-
antine, leaving, of course, q certain
up.
.N'It is true that this work has not
progressed as rapidly as we would have
liked, due to a lack of cooperation.
You are more or less familiar with
some of the difficulties we have encoun-
tered and instances where it was neces-
sary to wait for decisions from the
Court. These delays have been expen-
sive for all of the cooperative agencies,
but they were beyond our control.
There are now only about $50 quar-
antined premises in your county which
can be cleaned up this year thru prop
er cooperation. We met with the
county commissioners this week and Of
fered to furnish one inspector if they
would furnish one together with dip
material. This they declined to do, but
decided to wait until March 9th for fiaal
decision. If the commissioners refuse
to cooperate with us, we will be COM
PEELED to abandon the work and .place
the county back under quarantine, mpcl,
as we would dislike to do this. This
would result in the ticks again spread
ing over the entire county in q COM
paratively short time and the work we
have done in the past several years
would later have to be done again"
To carry on the tick eradication work
in this county this year will require
two inspectors at salary of sos, the
salary of one to be paid by the depart.
ments of agriculture, the salary of the
other to be paid By the county. The
county will also be required to furnish
about 5000 worth of cher,icals which
the work will require.
Proponents of tick eradication will
present solid front to the Board Of
Commissioners the first Monday in
March to try to persuade them to dip
that tick"