Show STOCK RAISERS ARE FIGHTING WINNING BATTLE WITH pestiferous FEVER TICK 41 t PE ll 11 1 1 MINE 10 1 11 nav 1 IV k tick infested animal of little value as meat or milk producer this type Is being replaced by good meat and milk producing animals and dipping makes it possible prepared by the united states department of 0 agriculture progressive stock raisers are fighting a winning battle with the bloodsucking cattle fever ticks in okla ohla homa through their effective coop co op aeration with the united states department of ii agriculture rl culture and the live stock anitaray board abard of oklahoma in dipping cattle it Is expected that 22 counties will be released from quarantine december 1 1918 during may there were dipping vats available and there were ot of cattle during june 09 1 dipping vats were available and there were of cattle the oklahoma state council of defense firmly indorses endorses Indor ses the cattle tick campaign as a food con 5 I 1 ta 11 al I 1 I 1 3 op RM ev e V t 4 j j 4 s F a 1 rw 61 dipping cattle to control tick eer measure and in this it has the support of the governor govern oiZ of the state food conservation measure in a statement just issued by the OkIn oklahoma homa state council of defense this body goes on record as regarding the eradication of cattle tick which conveys a disease which kills thousands of beet beef producing animals and makes scrubs of all in a quarantine area a most important food conservation measure at a meeting ot of the council a resolution was passed directing county councils to indorse the action of the state and federal agents in every way possible it Is hoped the statement says that no misguided citizen for reasons which may appear to him of personal importance will in any way lend himself to the creation of any opposition to this important food conservation measure which a will a also so contribute very to the prosperity of the state benefit of eradication the benefit to bo be derived from eradicating the tick Is shown by the improved conditions after quarantine has been lifted restrictions on shipments ants of cattle have been removed the loss from tick fever has been eliminated more cattle are being raised and a better grade of breeding stock la is being introduced calves grow faster cattle put on flesh more rapidly during the grazing season and go into the winter in better condition because of the absence of the tick dairy cows give a greater yield of milk and the values of farm land are enhanced in appearance the cattle show a marked contrast since the tick has been eradicated purebred pure bred cattle have been brought in from other sections to improve the native breed without any loss from fever the southern animals can enter the show ring of the north without restrictions result in mississippi in mississippi the first southern state to have all its territory removed from quarantine which opened a wedge to the gulf the statewide state wide eradication low law passed in 1916 is regarded by many as one of the most progressive gres sive pieces of legislation enacted in the state for many years the mississippi sis sippi commissioner of agriculture says that if the necessity for such a law had been realized four years prior to its passage mississippi no doubt be the greatest cattle producing state in the unon union at the present time the people who were responsible for getting this law on the statute books foresaw the possibilities for the permanent development of is resources and turning into profit the abundance of pasture grass which had annually gone to waste or was eaten by unthrifty cattle to make blood to feed ticks work in louisiana louisiana passed a statewide state wide tick eradication law in 1917 and at the time it was under consideration planters cattlemen and others throughout the state hastily sent to their various lawmakers a flood of telegrams urging them to support the measure this statewide state wide law did not become effective until the first of last april records show that during march were made under state of federal supervision while in april the figures leaped to and increased to over during each of the following two months louisiana demonstrated that a state cannot afford to wait on a few uninformed stockmen stoc kmen who are opposed to dipping cattle and who have failed to advise themselves of the benefits to be derived from complete eradication the entire south Is looking forward with confidence to an era of great prosperity in the cattle industry as the net gradually closes around the last cattle tick |