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 pearing 



it is a road-roller. Last year our records show that we had 

 1,516,000 dippings of cattle in the State of Louisiana under 

 supervision. That, you will see, is working a hardship on the 

 ticks when you have over one and a half million dippings in eight 

 Parishes in one season. You will readily see what the final 

 results will be this year, we are going much over that, as our 

 territory is larger and the work will be more extensive. In this 

 connection I beg to state that last year we dipped the cattle 

 every twenty-one days, which did not give us the satisfactory 

 results desired. This year the Live Stock Sanitary Board have 

 decided that all new Parishes engaged in the work of systematic 

 tick eradication must dip their cattle every fourteen days. This 

 action will prove two-fold ; that is, it will mean the eradication 

 of the tick in one season in any Parish, provided the people 

 co-operate, and, as a result, will conserve the Parish, State, and 

 Government funds. So far the people are taking very kindly 

 to the fourteen day dipping, and we anticipate very little trouble 

 in carrying out such procedure this year. 



In 1906 the Federal Government started tick eradication and 

 at that time they didn't have any dipping vats and I don't sup- 

 pose there was a dipping vat in existence. All disinfection of 

 cattle was done by the greasing method with a stick and a 

 swab saturated with grease and they were able to place a little of 

 such solution on each animal. In this connection, you can 

 imagine what kind of a job that would be if we had to grease 

 a million and a half cattle in one season. It would take more 

 than one season to do it, and when we get through the results 

 would not be satisfactory. Of course, by this method various 

 states succeeded in eradicating large areas from the ravages of 

 the cattle tick, but such areas were located mostly in counties 

 where one could quite easily find the cattle, but, if you under- 

 took such a piece of work in many sections on this Cut-Over 

 Timber Land, we would meet with nothing! but failure. The 

 people at that time, along in 1906, 1907, 1908, didn't know much 

 about tick eradication, consequently they were very skeptical. 

 The question was frequently asked, "Could it be done?" And, 

 of course, there were certain classes that were quick to answer 

 "No," with the explanation that we had ticks on every animal, 

 both wild and domestic, and it would be impossible to maintain 

 a quarantine over the wild animals. Today, the people look 

 upon the matter in a very much different viewpoint, and the 



