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financially. After taking into consideration their financial con- 

 dition, and the small number of vats in operation, we plainly said 

 to them, "Gentlemen, you are not ready to commence active 

 work in tick eradication ; you have not the sufficient number of 

 dipping vats, and your financial condition is not in a shape to 

 allow you to fully do-operate throughout the season. You 

 should wait until you have the last number of vats completed, 

 and sufficient money so that you will be able to work for the 

 best interest of the Parish, for the purpose of securing the best 

 result. It would be folly for us to attempt to co-operate with 

 you at this time, as it would waste both Government and State 

 funds." 



Last year we worked systematically in eight Parishes, and 

 this year we are working in the same manner in nineteen 

 Parishes, and it is our fondest hopes that these Parishes will 

 be released from quarantine this fall. They are giving excellent 

 co-operation and the people, as a whole, are lending their splendid 

 influence to the work and doing all in their power to see that 

 the cattle tick is completely eradicated. 



Last year the State Legislature passed a law which pro- 

 vided that tick eradication must be taken up over the entire 

 State not later than the spring of 1918. Mississippi, Arkansas 

 and Texas have also passed State-wide tick eradication laws. 

 His excellency, the Governor of Arkansas, told you yesterday 

 that they had vigorously legislated against the "Tick." Such 

 action means that within the next three or four years there will 

 be no cattle ticks in the States which are taking such strenuous 

 action against the tick, or, if there are any in existence, it means 

 that they will be located and absolutely under control. The tick "The Tick 

 must go. History has taught us that it does not belong in this Must Go" 

 country. It was first brought from Spain to old Mexico, and 

 from there it has rapidly spread over the southern states ; par- 

 ticularly, where the climatic conditions would best permit its 

 multiplication. It is the southern people, with their splendid 

 co-operation, who have decided that the tick is a nuisance ; 

 and they have further arrived at the conclusion that it is not 

 only a misfortune but a disgrace to allow such an infernal para- 

 site to destroy such a possibility of greater cattle raising in the 

 South. It is possible to hinder tick eradication, and it is also 

 possible to set it back a little; but, gentlemen, it is absolutely 

 impossible to completely stop tick eradication. In other words. 



