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question they are now asking to the State and Bureau officials is : 

 "When can you send a trained man here to supervise tick 

 eradication in our locality?" Such requests are coming in al- 

 ready, at such a rate that we are unable to furnish supervisors at 

 once to every Parish and County ready to work. 



Next year the new state-wide Tick Eradication Law for 

 Louisiana goes into effect, which means that this State will be 

 a leader in the complete elimination of the cattle tick. When the 

 State Legislature passed the law they very unwisely, for some 

 reason or other, perhaps on account of shortage of finances, did 

 not provide a sufficient amount of money to carry out the work- 

 ing of the law. The Governor of Arkansas told you yesterday More Money 

 that they had appropriated $50,000 in their State to wage war ^^^^^'[j^'" 

 against the cattle tick. This State hasn't but about $10,000 to ^^^^ "" 

 do what they expect to do with $50,000. If the people of Louis- 

 iana are enthusiastic enough to pass a state-wide law for the 

 eradication of the cattle tick, they should go before the Legis- 

 lative Committee on Finance and demand that the proper ap- 

 propriation be made. Other Southern States engaged in this 

 work are furnishing large sums to meet all the demands of the 

 work. Many Parishes in this State are carrying on tick eradi- 

 cation with their own funds without any assistance from the 

 State. One Parish, particularly, in this State has built some- 

 thing like fifty public dipping vats within the last thirty days, 

 and the State is unable to contribute one dollar towards such 

 progress. A great many Parishes in Louisiana have been unable 

 to do systematic tick eradication this season because they did 

 not have the funds, and in this connection I believe there should 

 have been some organization, perhaps financed by lumber in- 

 terests, that could furnish each Parish with a sufficient amount 

 of money to enable them to commence active operation. I be- 

 lieve, Mr. Chairman, that this would be a very co-operative 

 movement as it would help the Parish in question, and the 

 money so loaned would be drawing a reasonable rate of interest. 

 I have in mind one Parish in the northern part of the State where 

 the Police Jury were willing to co-operate with the State and 

 Bureau force for the purpose of eliminating the cattle tick, but 

 they were absolutely unable to borrow money to conduct the 

 work, and in this connection it is reasonable to believe that the 

 law permitted them to borrow money, otherwise they would not 

 endeavor to carry out such a program ; besides, it is further evi- 



