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HOW CATTLE TICK ERADICATION PAYS. THE SOUTH CANNOT AFFORD TO TOLERATE LONGER THIS LIVESTOCK PEST. Editor County Record:? As one who is anxious to see a movement started in our county to eradicate the ticks from our county that are destroying thousands of dollars of cattle yearly, and for the benefit of those who are opposed to State's taking steps to eradicate ticks from our country, I am enclosing you a clipping from the Progressive Farmer of the 11th inst, written by a progressive farmer, B W Hunt, of Eatonton, Ga, and ask that you publish this, for the benefit of those who have not given the tick destruction much thought. By so doing you will greatly oblige. Yours very truly, J J M Graham. Cades, April 14, 1914. Every county should organize a livestock association, elect a president who is not afraid of making enemies of the opponents of tick eradication and who will appear before every grand jury to encourage the work and insist on the grand jury recommending sufficient appropriations of funds to successfully prosecute tick extermination and also have the grand jury incorporate in its general presentments its approval of the work. In this way there will be less expense and lest; friction incurred than would otherwise be the case. The recommendations of the grand jury have more effect than at first appear. Opponents of tick eradication serving on the jury, who would ntkorn/ico onnnop the work, are thereafter silenced by acts pf the majority. I believe each county would save money and time by furnishing the arsenic cattle dip free of cost to the farmers. There is encouragement in the statistics of Putnam county, Georgia. We had by actual count 6,584 head of cattle. Of these 90 per cent were tick-infested, and to add to our difficulties T5 per cent of the cattle were owned by tenants. We have spent to December 31, 1913, $3,781.46, and I calculate we have saved in 1911, $3,000; 1912, $4,000; 1913, $5,000, Total, $12,000. Twelve thousand dollars saved from an expenditure of $3,781.37 dating the active work in tick eradication, and we shall never lose a dollar from ticks hereafter. Here is economy and yearly saving expressed in dollars even during the most expensive period of the work. After the work is done, we have, as you will have, more cattle than ever be fore, better cattle, each head worth more. Every animal butchered hereafter will give fever-free beef, better food, as well as more wholesome. Even the hides free from ticks are worth more for leather. Every dairy cow will produce more milk, more butter, and every calf will come into the world with stronger bones and constitution. Cattle after tick eradication will become a better asset in the banks. Cattle are financially more liquid in Putnam county, where we have a cooperative creamery, than are mules. With the cattle tick exterminated, anv bank or individual may advance money to an honest farmer to buy cattle, regardless of his financial standing. Bovines grow more valuable per head and increase in numbers. Men that banks could not safely assist witn money to piant cotton, may be, indeed, have been, loaned money without loss to the lender, and with great benefit to the borrower. The man who will not assist in supporting such beneficent, practicable, economical work for his county as tick extermination, can be compared only to the man who will not play a hose charged with water on a burning house, thereby to extinguish the fire. The pestiferous cattle tick is not a native parasite. it was brought into Georgia by Spanish cattle driven from Florida northward. The South cannot, must not, remain handicapped with such an unnecessary, pernicious burden. B W Hunt. ' Eatonton, Ga. ..-ft/'. * ||P*^ ?n Our New 1" Easv-Onenii ! jj| "Twist the C POETIC REPARTEE. Political Opponents In Dactylic Hexameter Give Tit for Tat. Representative Samuel Wallin of the Thirtieth New York district,Amsterdam's millionaire carpet manufacturer, recently franked to the editor of the Fort Plain (N Y) Standard an assortment of garden seeds. Then the editor wrote for flower and garden seeds for others,and also for a few rose bushes and peach trees. He voiced his acknowledgment in these words in the Standard: "Away with douht, away with fear! At last I know that spring is near, for Samuel W, our M C, has had the mail bring righ; to me, a lot of seed that sure will grow, for Uncle Sam has told me so. I find that! I'm to have some beans, also some j beets, and with them, greens. Of squashes I will have enough, to war-1 rant the giving of this puff to one i for whom I did not vote and whose election got my goat. And corn? j Why, what a lot I'll have?perhaps enough to make some salve. And radishes galore I'll own,if evjer I get those free seeds sown. While pump-1 kins, lettuce and turnips long will all i be mine. I can't go wrong if I but to my garden stick and hand it many a hardy lick, instead of writing stuff like this, which shows how far my mind's amiss. I thank you, Samuel, for spring needs; but I wish jou'd come and plant the seeds and keep my garden nice and neat?the best thing I can do is eat." Congressman Wallin came back witfi tnis: "I have your favor, writ in print, in which you give to me the hint that flowers seeds will do for you and ask the same for others, too. To send you these it is my pleasure and that, too, in goodly measure. Your hate for garden work I note; also for me you did not vote. 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