110 agricultTjral appropriation bill, 1924. 



Doctor MoiiLER. The States and counties employ almost 2,000 men, 

 and our inspectors test the vats, supervise the work, and direct the 

 laymen who are reportinjr to them. These local fellows know the 

 owners of the herds very well, but sometimes they do not find ticks 

 on ticky cattle. Our men are made responsible to see that when a 

 herd is released the last tick has been cauo:ht ; that is our work. AVe 

 are making; jrreat advancement in Texas; in fact. Ave have made more 

 advancement in Texas in the last year than we have in the previous 

 five 3'ears. 



Mr. Buchanan. AYe have a law^ on the statute books that if they 

 do not dip, suit can be brought against them and they can be fined 

 or put in jail. 



Doctor MoiiLER. That is true, and some of them have gone to jail, 

 too. 



Mr. Anderson. Are you going to have to spend $500,000 a yeai- to 

 keep them clean after you get them cleaned up once? 



Doctor Mohlp:r. That territory has not been cleaned up. Mr. Chair- 

 man, as I explained before. 



Mr. Anderson. Some of it must be. You have been at it for 10 

 years. 



Doctor MoHLER. Some of it is cleaned up. Here is a mai^ that will 

 shoAV you where it is cleaned up. There are hundreds and hundreds 

 of counties in these 15 Spates that are absolutely tick free. You are 

 probably familiar with this map. But there is always a possibility 

 of reinfecting a cleaned territory. 



Mr. Buchanan. Y^ou ha^-e not answered Mr. Anderson's question. 

 When you complete the job, how much of this ai)propriation will 

 l>e necessary then ? 



Doctior MoHLER. When we complete the clean-up ? 



Mr. Buchanan. Yes. 



Doctor MoHLER. There will not be any of it required. 



Mr. Anderson. That time will never come. 



Doctor MoHLER. It came with California. Kentucky. Missouri, and 

 Tennessee. 



Mr. Anderson. If your statement made today is correct, the time 

 will never come. 



Doctor MoiiLER. We were working in 521 counties last year, an«l 

 220 of them were entii-ely cleaned n\). which loaves only J^Ol for 

 this current year. It certainly has been true Avith the States that I 

 referi'ed to. All of southern California from Sierra ^fadre to the 

 coast Avas infested in 1000, and there has been only one recurrence 

 of the ticks since that time. We think it is only fair to release a 

 territory that is 05 or more ])er cent clean in order to give some 

 encouragement to the men that luiA^e done the Avise thing by dipping 

 (heir cattle propeily. The only othei- thing we could do would be 

 to hold a county in quarantine until 100 per cent of the ticks had 

 been killed, and I do not think any sensible man would bi'lieve 

 that is the best policy. It costs more money in ])roportion to keep 

 insj)ection on two or thi-ee infest(>d her(ls in a clean area, but that is 

 the only satisfactory and feasible thing to do. 



Mr. Anderson. If it has cost $500,()0() to clean up .'^00 counties 

 that you have been over three times 



Doctor Mohler. Xo; it has not cosi (hat 



Mr. Anderson. It has cost too much monev. 



