The Mena weekly star., 1922-01-05
UNLESS IMMEDIATE ACTION IS TAKEN QUARANTINE REGULA-
 TIONS WILL BE ENFORCED
UNDER PROCLAMATION SHIP MENT OF CATTLE, HORSES,
 MULES, ASSES IS ILLEGAL
WOULD BE DEATH BLOW TO GROWING INDUSTRY
Thru Commercial Club Efforts Being Made to Postpone Placing of Em- Bargo on Polk County-Years of
 Effort Would Be Lost.


 The cattle industry of Polk county, steadily growing in importance and in recent years, is facing lire calamity in the enforcement of by the U. s. Department ,f Agriculture which, in effect, for bids all movements out of the county ,f cattle, horses, mules or asses, eith- sr by driving or by rail.
 These regulations, under the law, are effective now, became effective January 2, and unless something rad cal and definite is quickly done, an that has been expected to en- rich our country, will have died death that will carry with it little less than ruin to many cattle men, as we'll as being the hardest kind of blow to the prosperity of the entire people and the business interests--a blow from which it will take years to re- cover.
 The vital portion of the proclama- ton and order follows:
 WHEREAS: The fact has been
 determined by the Board of Control
 of the Arkansas Agricultural Ex-
 pertinent Station that the shipping
 of cattle, horses, mules and asses
 infested with ticks lMargaropus
 Annulatus) thru the State of Ar
 kansas, where tick eradication has
 been, and is being accomplished at
 great expense to the taxpayers of
 the State, has proven serious
 menace by re-infestation of free
 area, caused by such incidents as
 the wrecking of Southern Stock
 Trains, thereby releasing tick in-
 fested cattle, the transferring of
 tick infested cattle from bad order
 cars thru native pens, the unload
 ing, by inadvertance of Southern cattle for feed, water, and rest, In
 stock pens not set aside for that purpose, the accidental escape of
 infested animals in their being transferred thru farms, pastures, and open ranges.
 Now, therefore, the Board of Con- trol of the Arkansas Agricultural IAUSTllutHb cldJiDi III puL50aiitt O1 authority vested in said Board of Act 86, of the Acts of 1915, amend ed by Act 39, of the Acts of 1917, do hereby prohibit and make un- lawful, by this regulation the ship ment of any cattle, horses, mules, and asses from any area quaran- tined by Proclamation, Rules, or Or dcrs of the U. s. Department of
 A ~f or Splenetic Fever, into, or thru the State of Arkansas, unless such an- imals are accompanied by certifi- cate issued by duly authorized in- spector of the U. s. Department of Agriculture, copy of certificate required by this regulation, shall be attached to the way-bill and accom- pany shipment to which it applies during it's transportation into and thru the State of Arkansas, copy of said certificate also to be for warded to the office of the State Veterinarian, Little Rock, Arkan- sas. When circumstances are deemed to warrant 1t the ship ment of livestock may be stopped in transit within the State of Arkan- sas and inspected, and way-bill ex- amined for evidence of the viola tion of this regulation.
 These regulations will be in full force and effect on and after janu- ary 2, 1922.
 Of necessity, this will put definite check to the dairying interests, at this time beginning to bring in real money thru the shipment of cream
 The Mena Commercial Club. retsiz ing the seriousness of the impeadiug crisis, has written proper 0ilesais. urging that the enforcement t 2. ruling on Polk county be delayed q few days in the hope that means will be provided to complete the eradica- tion of ticks, work already com pleted except in a few localities. If this be not done, and the work ceases for year, the entire campaign that has taken several years and thous- ands of dollars in money and much in and labor. will have 10 be gone over as tho nothing at all had been done. One county in Arkan- sas that q year ago made this CT TOT. The Star is informed, appropri- sted S7.O00 for the work in 1922, and is going to the task in earnest
 What Is Needed Here.
 The recent quorum court by ma iority of one vote, decided against an appropriation for tick eradication this year.
 It is stated that the small sum of $500 will carry tas work '.lr1 tsas year. This naoney can oniy De had thru private sources, subscription CT otherwise. 1t cannot bs had legally from county funda
 This is the situation that is import ant fe every property owner ana fes- iassk of Polk county, bal is Of direct ana vital inlpeF<anee fc every man uluo is or expeekk fo ne zntnrcstn1 ia she rrceana. handling and mAske>= .nn q rsiL.s. uf lH Ih< uzs<a1k kl1d <z-4 sale sf dairy pxcdne1z