232 The Dawn of a New Constructive Era 



Resolutions Adopted at the 

 Cut-Over Land Confer- 

 ence of the South 



Resolved, by the Cut-Over Land Conference of the South repre- 

 senting Eastern Texas, Arkansas, Southern Missouri, Mississippi, 

 Louisiana, Alabama, Western Georgia and Western Florida, in 

 convention assembled at New Orleans, La., April 11th, 12th and 

 13th, 1917, that: 



Whereas, in the present national crisis the production of food, 

 especially of meat and dairy products, is of equal importance to 

 the manufacture of munitions of war; the success of the United 

 States and her allies in the great war will largely depend on the 

 maintenance and increase of the supplies of food-producing ani- 

 mals in the United States; the largest area of undeveloped but 

 potentially valuable cattle-producing territory in the country is 

 situated in the Southern states and the greatest obstacle to the ex- 

 tension of the cattle industry of the South is the Texas fever cattle 

 tick; 



Therefore, Be It Resolved, that the rapid, efficient and complete 

 Eradication eradication of the Texas fever cattle tick has now become a pa- 

 of the Cattle triotic obligation upon those states comprising within their borders 

 ^^^^ areas still under quarantine ; and 



Be It Further Resolved, that this Conference urge upon the 

 legislatures of those states which have not already done so, to pass 

 without delay state-wide tick eradication laws, and that the Gov- 

 ernment of the United States, if necessary as a war measure, exer- 

 cise the power vested in the Secretary of Agriculture of the United 

 States by act of Congress to facilitate the complete eradication of 

 the Texas fever cattle tick within one year. 



Be It Further Resolved, that a copy of this resolution be for- 

 warded to the President of the United States, the Congress of the 

 United States, the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, 

 and the Governors of the states of Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, 

 Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia and Florida, with the urgent request 

 that these resolutions be given most serious consideration. 



