22 EFFECTS OF TICK ERADICATION. 
for the distribution of good beef bulls has uot been very extensive in Georgia. 
This is shown by the cattle sold on the market. Nevertheless, a start has been 
made, and other improvements should follow. The new law requiring all 
cattle to be free of ticks before they are moved from place to place has not 
affected the receipts of cattle at all. We are anxious to cooperate with the 
tick-eradication officials in any way we can for the betterment of the cattle 
industry, and the extermination of the cattle tick will be one of the greatest 
blessings which could come upon the farmers. 
VIEWS OF COUNTY OFFICIALS. 
To obtain further information of the attitude of the people toward 
the work of tick eradication. Dr. J. A. Kiernan, of the Bureau of 
Animal Industry, wrote to the county board of supervisors or the 
county health officer of counties in which tick eradication had been 
completed, asking if they had derived any benefits from the work. 
The answers received from the different county officials are given 
below. Many of these statements show clearly that material benefits 
far in excess of the cost of the work are received in a short time. 
From Hon. Frank L. Lynch, county judge of Franklin County, Winchester, 
Tenn., April 25, 1912 : The work of tick eradication was finished in this county 
last year. I do not think that during my tenure of office, covering 10 years. 1 
have done anything that has been more generally approved by and was of more 
material benefit to the people in this county. Practically all of our farmers 
raise more or less cattle, and many cattle are shipped out now from this county 
each year; and by virtue of being a free territory the farmers realize from 
$6 to $10 a head above what, they did when we were under the quarantine. 
From Mr. J. C. White, president of the Rankin County and Lincoln County 
Live-Stock Association, Brandon, Miss., December 1, 1912: In response to your 
letter asking for a description of the work done in behalf of tick eradication 
in Rankin County, with my opinion of the same, it gives me great pleasure to 
state that this work was started under many difficulties about November 10, 
1911. by building the first vat near Brandon. The work of building the vats 
continued through the winter, being necessarily slow on account of the roads 
and bad weather. We commenced the dipping of cattle under inspection May 1. 
1912; several vats were not finished until 30 days later. This dipping was 
continued regularly all through the season, and in October, 1912, the Govern- 
ment showed that Rankin County dipped more cattle than any other county in 
Mississippi. The results have been as follows: Cattle have grown better, fat- 
tened faster, and sold for more money for the same class of animals than during 
any previous season. Cattle buyers from other counties not engaged in tick 
eradication at all times endeavor to bring their cattle from surrounding terri- 
tory to be dipped and shipped out of Rankin County so they can receive the 
increased price for them. 
The work has been in progress under inspection only since May 1, 1912. 
and at the present time over three-fifths of the county has been recommended 
by the United States inspector in charge for release from quarantine April 1, 
1913, after which it will be free territory. The rest of the county will prob- 
ably be released a short time after. 
In the present forward state of the work which is now so near completion, the 
cost so far to Rankin County has been about $4,000, or 20 cents per head for 
the estimated amount of grown cattle in said county ; and the work will prob- 
ably be finished at a cost all told of from 25 to 30 cents per head. 
