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county practically the same arrangements were made as in Ripley 

 comity. In McDonald county the emulsion was supplied and the owners 

 were required to get it and use it themselves. These various methods 

 were tried for the reason that it was impossible to provide a sufficient 

 force of men to attend to the spraying in McDonald comity, and with 

 the further idea in view of experimenting on the best method of tick 

 eradication. Strange as it may seem, woiii in McDonald county ap- 

 parently was most successful, and met with the least resistance. Indi- 

 cations are, that the more the State and Federal Government do for the 

 owners of cattle, the more they expect. In many cases the owners re- 

 garded it as a personal accommodation to the inspectors when they 

 drove their cattle to the stations for spraying, and some were entirely 

 unwilling to do even this. 



On account of lack of funds we will not be able to push this work 

 under the same plans another year. The Federal Government will not 

 more than duplicate the State force, and at best, we cannot possibly su- 

 pervise the spraying in a thorough manner. At present, it appears 

 that we will do well if we secure a supply of tick emulsion from the 

 Federal Government for use in the various counties. Unless the way 

 opens up for us to do better, we will simply have to be content with 

 jnaking an occasional systematic inspection, and enforcing the law which 

 forbids owners of ticky cattle from allowing them to rmi at large. Just 

 recently I have received a sample of Texas fever ticks sent in from 

 Christian county, and the report indicates that these ticks are wide- 

 spread in the vicinity of Chadwick. This will add to our work during 

 the coming year. 



The control and eradication of fever ticks has been made more 

 difficult during the past two summers on account of the extremely mild 

 winters preceding, and the further fact that a great deal of the outly- 

 ing range was not burned off. As best the forecast could be made, there 

 were some few ticks matured after September 1st, in localities in New- 

 ton and McDonald counties, next to the Oklahoma line; in Oregon 

 county around Myrtle and Thayer, and in Ripley county, around Doni- 

 phan, and in the extreme northwest corner of the county. On account 

 of the wet weather during the past fall, very little burning was done, 

 and in all probability, the infection will reoccur in these localities next 

 year. 



TUBERCULOSIS. 



At last tuberculosis eradication work has been reduced to a prac- 

 tical system. Previous to this year this work has been held back for the 

 reason that there Avas no way to dispose of tuberculous cattle, without 



