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DOES TICK ERADICATION PAY? Some Prominent Sonth Carolinians Claim That It Does. Washington, D C, October 20: ? The cattle tick has been driven out of 294,014 square miles, considerably more than one-third of the area it once infested. Are the people in this area glad or sorry that they took the trouble to get rid of the pest? In order to answer this question the United States Department of Agriculture sent out, a year or two ago, a circular letter to stockmen and farmers who had helped in the fight. In this letter these men were asked to state what had been, in their opinion, the increase in their county in the average value per head of cattle; approximately what losses there had been from from Texas fever before tick eradication; whether cattle raising had become more popular since the tick had gone; what increase there had been in pure-bred stock; and the effect upon the dairy industry. To these questions something over 1,000 replies were received from Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. From these replies it appears that the average value of cattle in the tick-free portion of the eleven States increased after tick eradication $9.76 a head. In Texas the increase was placed at $13.79; in South Carolina $9.25, and in Alabama at only $7.70. The increase in weight ranged from eleven per cent in Texas to twenty-three per cent in Mississippi, the average for the entire tick-free territory being 19.14 per cent In other words, the cattle are considered to be one-fifth heavier in the counties from which the tick has been eradicated. The quality for " cu_ i. of me eleven out its woo piav-cu ???. uusfourth better than when under quarantine conditions. The estimate of losses before tick eradication from Texas fever ranged from nine per cent in Georgia to fifteen per cent in Mississippi and North Carolina. The average for the eleven States was placed at thirteen per cent. These figures, of course, do not take into account the depreciation in yalue due to stunted growth, discrimination in markets, shrinkage in milk production, etc, but refer only to actual deaths. The increase in milk production following tick eradication was placed at twenty-three per cent per head for all the States, the greatest increase being twenty-five per cent in North Carolina. In Mississippi and Oklahoma, however, the increase wa3 estimated at twenty-four per cent. In replying to the questions in het circular letter already mentioned, a number of the farmers and stockmen took the opportunity to express in other ways their personal opinions of the results of tick eradication. One Alabama man wrote from Sumter county: "There is as much ' difference between ticks and no ticks as there is between an up-to-date business man and an old fogy. In fact, if we had kept the ticks we would have been knocked out in ten years." From Baxter county, Arkansas, another man wrote: "We consider the eradication work has been worth thousands of dollars to Baxter county. As our county is not very good for farming, we depend mostly on ?iti- / i:.j i ?i. our cauie lur a uviiik biju we can t raise cattle and fever ticks in the same county with any success." In regard to its effect upon the dairy industry a Putnam county, Georgia, man said: "Tick eradication and the dairy industry have progressed hand in hand here in Putnam county. It is generally conceded that our creamery (the only successful co-operative one in the State) is successful because of tick eradication," From Mississippi a stockman wrote: "TU .Uan. an inctnnnp nf what JLU SUUVY ?uu wu uiuw.i.vv tick eradication has done for us: on yesterday I sold to a feeder from Kentucky a carload of feeders (Angus grades) for $6 per hundredweight, weighed up on my own farm. This is the highest priced load of this class of cattle that I have ever known to be sold in the State." If this man's county had still been under quarantine it would, j of course, have been impossible to have sent his feeders into Kentucky at all. Another Mississippi man said: "I have been in the cattle business myself in Chickasaw coun- j ty for twenty years and I regard the : | eradication of ticks as a great bene- j j fit to the cattle growers of Missis-! jsippi. I am shipping my cattle now 1 ! to East St Louis and they go into j i the free pens. They bring 50 to 75; cents per 100 more tiian they would j , in the quarantine pens." | An Oklahoma man brought upj j the matter of importing pure-bred j stock. "I have just shipped in," he | wrote, "one car of pure-bred calves j and I have two neighbors that, have' shipped in a car each. Before tick t eradication we could not handle this class of cattle as they would die of fever." From Stonewall county, Texas, a stockman wrote: "I figure that two men by bringing in ticky cattle have cost the county from $75,000 to $100,000. One man lost about 50 - i out of every 100 head and several lost heavily." from south carolina: Tick eradication has put new life into cattle raising in our county. If we could only get like co-operation in the stamping out of hog cholera, our people will then turn to hog raising.?J A Woodley, Marlboro county. Have watched the cattle proposition since the eradication of the tick, and everybody gives it praise. Have particularly noticed the better grade of cattle; also have never heard of or seen a tick since the work was done. I hope the good work will continue for the South.?S P Clark, Spartanburg county. I lost $400 or $500 from the ticks myself before I knew what it was. T ?*. 'v /v^ fUrt K/uif mi)Lr /tnwfl T 1*|USL 5UIIIC U1 LUC UOV Ullin vwng A ever owned. The money spent for tick eradication is money well spent. Best thing the Government has done for this section. Cattle that sold here for 3 to 4 cents on foot now sell from 4 to cents right here on my farm. I used all my influence in assisting your men here in their good work. I thank you for what you did for me. I hope you will continue the work.?A W Rodgers, Greenwood caunty. Clear Bad Skin from Within. Pimply, muddy complexions are due to impurities in the blood. Clear up the skin l>3* taking Dr King's New I ife Pills. Their mild laxative qualities remove the poisons from the system and brighten the eye. 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