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dairying and stock raising since 1906. In the Yearbook 

 of 191 3 * considerable progress is reported, and it is pre- 

 dicted that if sufficient money be appropriated to carry on 

 the work, the complete eradication will be effected before 

 many more years have passed. Educating the farmer, quar- 

 antining infected areas, and the regular dipping of cattle 

 in arsenical solution, are the steps necessary to bring about 

 the eradication of the cattle tick. The cattle tick can be 

 controlled, but, unless there is drastic governmental action 

 taken, the probabilities are that it will always be more or 

 less a pest in warm sections owing to the fact that there 

 are irresponsible owners of cattle to be found scattered 

 throughout all communities. The fact that these trouble- 

 some and pestiferous insects are much fewer in cold climates 

 gives the northern states a decided advantage in this re- 

 spect. 



In shedding and feed, warm climates have a decided ad- 

 vantage over cold climates. On the Pacific Coast, for in- 

 stance, where the climate is mild and equable, milch cows 

 are stabled only from two to four months in the year. 2 

 The same can be said of all southern states. The costs of 

 capital are therefore considerably less in warm than in cold 

 dairy regions. Feed is also much cheaper in warm climates. 

 In the southern states " an unexcelled pasture can be main- 

 tained for at least eight months in the year. With the 

 highly improved southern farms, the question of cheap feed 

 is settled, for there is probably no section of America that 

 can produce cheaper feed. Especially is the great variety 

 of legumes that thrive in the South worthy of notice, and 

 these crops, with cotton-seed meal, settle the question of 

 protein ". 3 



1 Page 62. 



1 Agricultural Yearbook for 1906, p. 422. 3 Ibid., p. 421. 



