The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, November 09, 1916, Page TWO, Image 2
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
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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
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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. A
full, free, non-griping bowel movement
in the morning is the reward
of a dose of I)r King's New Life
Pills the night l>efore. At your druggist's,
25c.
Jas C Moorehead of Pulaski, Va,
has succeeded A F Dufft as manager
of the Park hotel, Darlington.
Forget Your Aches.
Stiff knees, aching limbs, lame
hack makp.life a burden. If you suffer
from rheumatism,gout,lumbago,
neuralgia,get a bottle of Sloan's Liniment,
the universal remedy for pain.
Easy to apply; it penetrates without I
rubbing and soothes the tender flesh.
Cleaner and more effective than
mussy ointments or poultices. For
strains or sprains, sore muscles or
wrenched ligaments resulting from
strenuous exercise,Sloan's Liniment
gives quick relief. Keep it on hand
for emergencies. At your druggist's,
25c.
Don't Neglect Your Cold.
Neglected colds get worse instead
of better. A stuffed head, a tight
chest must l>e relieved at once. Dr
Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey is Nature's
remedy. Honey and glycerine heal
the irritated membrane, antiseptic
tar loosens the phlegm, you breathe
freer and your cold is broken up.
Pleasant to take.Dr Bell's Pine-TarHoney
is an ideal remedy for children
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President ol Columbia Collene.
Griffith T Pugh was unanimously
elected president of Columbia college '
yesterday, at a meeting of the trustees
held in the office of F H Hyatt, i
Columbia. Dr Pugh has been act- (
ing paesident since the resignation,'
last June of the Rev W W Daniel,
now pastor of the Methodist church
at Latta. Connected with the college
for eleven years. Dr Pugh is intimately
associated with the institution
and the school has thriven under
his management. The school is
under the direction of the two Methodist
conferences in South Carolina.
Trustees present were the president
of the board, the Rev E 0 Watson;
F H Hyatt, P A Hodges, the Rev J
E Mahaffey, the Rev A N Brunson,
the Rev S B Harper, the Rev A J
Cauthen, W S Stubbs, W J Murray
and L L Hardin.?Columbia State of
October 27.
Dr Pugh is a son-in-law of our
esteemed townsman, Mr Jas Epps.
Miss Bessie tiarper, nome demonstration
agent for Aiken county, reports
25 clubs,with 213 members, in
that county.
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involving the stomach and the inteshe
nose or throat. It means stagnation.
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ds of grateful sufferers, who willingly
relief. Peruna's long history of helpfulness
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This is the closest Pieiiential
election in thirty-two years.
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