24 EFFECTS OF TICK ERADICATION. 
have been found in iny county. The county authorities have had a tick in- 
spector until the last year, and we don't find that there are any ticks here now 
and have no inspector this year. If it should be that we find any ticks we will 
have an inspector and destroy what we can. As I now see it. the ticks will 
soon be exterminated. T hope that the people will use all of the precaution 
that they can to rid the country of this pest. 
From Mr. T. M. Gailbreath, chairman of the county court of Jackson County*, 
Gaiuesboro, Tenn., April 2S, 1912 : In reply to your letter of the lSth instant 
will say that the people of this (Jackson) county are highly pleased with the 
eradication of the cattle ticks. Our cattle can be sold in an open market and 
bring much better prices; can be marketed at any season of the year without 
inspection, which is a very great advantage over the conditions existing before 
we got rid of the ticks. Young cattle grow much faster and get fat on the 
pasture and on the range. Milch cows do much better in. every way, giving 
more milk and keeping in better condition and much easier wintered. It would 
be hard to estimate the benefit the farmer and stock raisers have derived from 
the eradication of the ticks, the benefits being seen and appreciated in so 
many ways. 
From Dr. J. F. Adams, county health officer of Cannon County, Bradville, 
Tenn. : Replying to your favor of the Gth instant regarding estimate of bene- 
fits received from tick eradication in this county, will say that while the work 
was in progress the men in charge met with more or less friction', and often I 
have heard it said that tick eradication was not going to be of any value to us, 
but since the quarantine has been raised our cattle have brought better prices 
than ever before, and farmers have entered into the business of raising cattle 
with renewed energy, so that now our cattle industry is a source of far greater 
revenue to the farmers of this county than ever before. Aside from getting 
rid of the tick we have been educated in many ways, and at least a part of our 
improved methods of farming is no doubt directly due to lessons we learned 
while tick eradication was in progress. Certainly the work can not easily be 
overestimated in a county like ours, where the raising of cattle is a source 
of so great revenue and where so much improvement in this industry is now 
being made manifest. Our farmers are enlarging their herds and improving 
the breeds, and coming as it does directly in the wake of tick eradication forces 
us to the conclusion that the educational value of tick eradication is worth the 
money we expended here. 
From Hon. Charles T. Williamson, county judge of Marion County, Jasper, 
Tenn., April 19, 1912 : Farming and cattle raising are the chief industries of 
Marion County, and in the eradication of the cattle tick the citizens have been 
greatly benefited. In fact this has done more to increase the profits of the 
farmers and encourage the raising of blooded cattle than any one occurrence in 
the history of the county. 
Since this county has been placed above the quarantine line there has been a 
marked increase in the cattle business, and that is the avocation this section 
is especially adapted for. Just the fact that cattle are raised and fattened 
above the quarantine line makes a perceptible difference in the price per pound 
in the northern and eastern markets. 
This stroke of progress not only caused hundreds of farmers of this county to 
invest in blooded cattle, but along with this advancement came improved farm- 
ing methods. It is natural that when a man gets one thing of the best he then 
strives to bring all his interests up to that standard. This is being done in this 
county, and we are now farming more intelligently and getting better results. 
The eradication of the cattle tick is a great thing for Marion County, and 
all the citizens highly appreciate this commendable work. 
