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Doctor Mom. Kit. ^ »'s, iiidi'iMl; vcrv oftfii wo <lo. In mhih^ vases 

 the ticks li!i\»' ^'otJcM on ponies, and tlicv have spn-ad into n-IiMihed 

 tenitoi y as the result of the horses l»i iii;rin;; in tht" infestation. 



We hud u litth' outhreaU in C'alifoiiiia — Californiu was relea-syd 

 from (|narantine ahont seven years uj;o, hut they ^<tt some ticks up 

 (here in noitheiii California neai' Sacramento. Theie ueie oidy 11 

 iierils. hut wo had to put in men to clean that up, and it to<iU us six 

 months to do it. That is tiie only time the State of California has 

 heen reinfested; and yet in Lowi'r California alon;; the Me\i<an horder 

 (here are ticks *ralore, and it has heen a constant source of ti«)uhle 

 on our part to keep (hose ticks helow the Mexican horder. Some- 

 how, in some way the ticks p)t into that northern section last year, 

 and we will always have the possihility of a recurrence of the tick 

 in any free territory as loniz as the tick remains in the South. They 

 come in bedilin«r, in numure, hay, straw, and \arions ditl'erent ways 

 that we can not po.ssibly control. 



Mr. BmiAXAX. Vou have a (|uanuitine on the importati(»n of 

 cattle fi-om Mexico? 



Doctor MoiiiJiit. Yes, sir; every head of stock imported into this 

 country receives inspection alonj; the horder from Brownsville all 

 the way across to San Die<j:o. 



Mr. Andkh.sox. What I can not jret throujxh my mind is. if yoii 

 have heen doin<r this systematic follow-uj) work why you still have 

 WX) counties that are partially infested. 



Doctor Moiii>i:i{. In some counties there are only one or two herds 

 left that are infested, and it re(|uire8 a fjreat ch'al more propoi'tional 

 cost to clean u\) the last few heids in a county than it would a much 

 lar'rer territory of orifjinal infestation. It is like 100 per cent effi- 

 ciency in any line; it is relatively clieajjer to hrin*:: uj) any ^Y)rk to 

 the first TO per cent of elHciencv tlian the last 2 per cent. 



Mr. Buchanan. AVhen you relea.se the counties do not the State 

 authorities mop up those isolated cases? 



Doctor MoiiiJ-:ii. They work with ns, but they do not as a rule have 

 the kind of men that we have, who know just tlie strenixlh of dippinir 

 >olution required in the vats and are fully informed on the suhject 

 in generah 



Mr. BiciiANAN. It looks to me as if. with nearly a year of dii)i)inir 

 experience, the State men oujrht to ^et sufficient knowle<lf]:e to l)e able 

 to make the proper solution ; and after you make the solution it would 

 seem to be a simple matter. 



Doctoi" MoHi.KH. That may he. hut after you have a thousand head 

 pass throu^di the dippin<r .solution it weakens and you ha\e to have 

 a te.stinjr outfit to keep the solution at the proper strength to he 

 eflfective. 



Mr. BrciiANAN. It looks to me that if you had a Stati' man there 

 in the business for ei<j;ht months in a countv he should lie ;d>le to 

 attend to that moppin<2;-up work. 



Mr. Anukhson. Do you have to keep one man han«iin<; around a 

 herd for ei;j:ht months? 



Doctor iloiiLKH. Oh. no; we have one man in charjre of two or 

 three of these counties. We have only 2*20 inspectors employed in 

 these 10 or 11 States. The States have 203 ami the counties have 

 1.047 em]>loyees. ^vho are practical cow men. 



Mr, Buchanan. Thev have one in almost every countv? 



