The Donaldsonville chief., 1922-11-11
CATTLE RAISING in LOUISIANA.
Ticks Must Be Eradicated if Indus
try Is 10 Prosper.

The Texas fever tick is one Of the
most serious manaces to the cattle
industry in Louisiana, and until the
pest is completely eradicated no sub
stantial progress can be made with
the cattle industry in the state. The
ticks not only impoverish the cattle
and thereby greatly depreciate their
value as meat,but gives them the
fever, which, nnless discovered gin
time and promptly attended to in
variably proves stal. 0
a certain g aHsfffinens IS paan made.
the statement a few days ago, that
in his section, because of the tick,
which for some reason it has been
impossible to stamp out so far, cat
tie raisers had been unable to in in
crease their herds; the losses from
the tick fever being practically equal
to the accretions, and that he alone
had lost seventeen heads this year.
In recent editorial the New Or
leans States commented as follows
upon the tick situation:
During the recent largely attended
and successful State Fair at Shreve-
port a letter signed by bankers, busi-
ness men and other visitors from all
over the state, was addressed to Gov.
Farker urging him to a renewal of
the effort to rid Louisiana of the
cattle tick.
"The live stock display at the fair
was the most notable in it's history
and it was the fine exhibit of Louisi-
ana pasture-raised cattle that prompt
ed the letter to His Excellency.
Those who saw the exhibit were for
| chilly impressed with the possibilities
of cattle development in the state.
"a chain, however, is no stronger
! than it's weakest link. Such develop
ment can only come when the state
is rated 100 per cent free of the
tick. AS long as any areas are per-
mitted to remain tick-infested, the
cattle raising industry in the non
infested sections will continue more
or less hazardous from the ever-pres-
ent danger of the spread of the tick
"Once, however, the tick has been
expelled-and that it can be ex,
PEELED is not even debatable-one
of the chief obstacles to the profitable
use Of extensive areas suitable to the
growing of grasses, clovers and other
grazing crops for the extensive rails.
ing of cattle will have disappeared.
"Many of the parishes are tick.
free. But in some of them dipping
still is resisted. The campaign must
be directed to overcoming this re
sistance.
"Gov. Parker, it is said, is both E
practical and scientific farmer. HI
raises fine stock himself, some OF
which was exhibited at the fair, ant
he has not tick on his farm because
he dipped from the beginning. H,
therefore, is in full sympathy will
the movement for naturalization a.
essential to the progress of the cat
tie raising industry. Hence, he ma.
be counted on, we think, to use t,
the fullest extent both his persona
and official influence in bringin,
about universal application of tn
only known means of destruction O
the tick.
| "Meanwhile, the sympathetic cam
paign of education which is bein
carried on by the agricultural au
| thorities, both federal and stat.
should not be relaxed. Indeed,
should be intensified, thus paving tn
way for remedial legislation at tn
lnext session of the Legislature,
more is needed-legislation whic
will be both effective and appeal |
the reason Of the resisters."