Show i STOCK RAISERS ARE FIGHTING WINNING i BATTLE WITH PESTIFEROUS FEVER TICK I i 9 A t y r i tt w t p F Tick-Infested Tick Animal Animal Of Of Little Value as Meat or Milk Producer This Producer This Type Is Being Replaced by Good Meat and Producing Milk-Producing Animals and Dipping Dipping Dip Dip- ping Makes It Possible Prepared by the tho United States Slates Department Department Department Depart Depart- ment of ot Agriculture Progressive Progress stock raisers are fightIng fighting fight- fight Ing a u winning battle tUe with the bloodsucking bloodsucking blood blood- sucking cattle tUe fever fe ticks in Oklahoma Okla Okla- homa Through h their E effective cooperation cooperation co op oration with the United States department department department depart depart- ment of agriculture and the live stock sanitary hoard board of ot Oklahoma In dipping dipping dipping dip dip- ping cattle it is expected that 22 2 counties counties coun coun- ties will be released from qu quarantine December 1 1 1 IS During May Iny there were Si dipping vats vat's available and there were SS clippings of ot cattle During June O dipping vats were available and and there were clippings dip clip pings of ot cattle attle The Oklahoma state council of ot defense firmly Indorses the cattle tick campaign as a food tood conservation conservation conservation con con- measure and In this it has leas the support of ot the governor of the state Food Conservation Measure In a n statement just Issued by the Oklahoma state council of ot defense this bod body goes goe on record as regarding the eradication of cattle cattIe tick which conveys comes a disease which kills thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of producing beef animals and makes males scrubs of ot all nIl In a quarantine area a most Important food conservation conservation conservation conserva conserva- tion measure At a meeting of ot the council a resolution was passed directIng directing direct direct- I In Ing county councils to indorse the action of ot the state and federal agents In ever every wa way possible It Is hoped the statement says that no misguided citizen citizen citizen citi citi- zen for reasons which may appear to him of personal importance will in any way lend himself to the creation of an any opposition to this Important food conservation conser measure which will also contribute very materially to the lie prosperity of the state Benefit of Eradication The benefit to be derived from eradIcating eradicating eradicating erad erad- the tick is shown by the Improved improved im Im- proved conditions after otter quarantine has been lifted Restrictions on shipments of cattle have been removed the loss from tick fever has been eliminated more cattle are being raised and a n better grade of ot bre breeding stock is heIng being heIng he- he ing Introduced Calves grow faster fuster cattle put on flesh more rapidly durIng during during dur dur- ing the grazing season and go Into the winter In better condition because of the absence of the tick Dairy cows CoWl give a n greater grenter yield of milk and the values of farm land are arc enhanced In appearance the cattle show a marked contrast since the tick has hns been erad erad- Pure-bred Pure cattle have been brought In from fromn other sections to Improve Improve Im Im- prove the native breed without any allY loss from fever The Southern animals animals ani ani- mals can enter the show ring of the North without restrictions Result in Mississippi In Mississippi the fl first t Southern sta state fe to lIa have lIae e all nil Its territory removed from quarantine which opened a wedge e to the thc gulf gult the stat wide state eradication cation m law passed In 1910 WIG Is regarded regard regard- ed by tuan many as us one of the most pro pro- pieces of legislation enacted I I. I In the state for fOl many years ear The Mis- Mis commissioner of agriculture sa says s 's that if It the necessity for tor such a a law In hind had been realized four tour rears prior to its passage Mississippi would no doubt be he the greatest producing cattle-producing state In the Union at nt the present time The people who were responsible for forgetting forgetting forgetting getting this law on the statute books books' foresaw the possibilities for the time permanent permanent per per- manent development de of ot Mississippi's resources and turning Into profit the abundance of pasture grass which ha had annually gone one to waste or was eaten enten by unthrifty cattle to make blood to feed t ticks Work In Louisiana Louisiana passed a u wide state-wide tick eradication law In 1917 1017 and nt at the the time it was under consideration planters plant plant- ers cattlemen and others throughout the time state hastily sent to their various lawmakers a n flood of telegrams urgIng urging ing lag them to support the measure This wide state-wide law did not become efee effective tive until the first of ot last April Records Records Records Rec Rec- show that during March were made mue under state or federal Cedera supervision while in April the figures leaped to and Increased increased In In- creased to over during each ench of the following two months LouisIana Louisiana Louis Louis- Louisiana iana demonstrated that a state cannot afford to wait walt on a few uninformed stockmen who are opposed to dipping cattle and who have failed to advise ml themselves of ot the b benefits to be derived derived derived de de- rived from complete eradication The entire South Is looking forward with confidence ence to an nn era ern of ot great prosperity In the cattle Indu Industry try as ns the net gradually closes around the thelast thelast thelast last cattle tick |