20 EFFECTS OF TICK ERADICATION. 
tie were in line condition and had been freed of ticks for over a year. 
The following statements were made by Mr. Campbell: 
My cattle have never seemed to thrive better or fatten more easily than 
they have since they were cleaned of the cattle ticks. They wintered in tine 
shape and were fat for grass cattle by the 1st of May. I know of no one thing 
which would help our fanners more than freeing the whole South of this pest, 
which has done so much to retard the cattle industry. This is a good stock 
country, and the farmers who raise good cattle should make money by it. 
The farm of W. S. Lovell, at Palmyra, Miss., was not visited but 
the conditions on this farm are familiar in every way to the author of 
this bulletin. Mr. Lovell has done much to encourage the growing 
of more and better live stock in Mississippi. In 1911 a herd of steers 
raised and fed by him and shipped to the St. Louis market sold for 
the highest price ever paid for Mississippi cattle on that market up 
to that time. Last year there were on this farm TOO head of pure- 
bred and high-grade Hereford cattle which had never been subjected 
to the ravages of the cattle tick. 
Mr. Lovell wrote as follows under date of June ID, 1913 : 
Replying to your recent inquiry, will say that, as you know, owing to fre- 
quent overflows, my place at Palmyra, Miss., is free from cattle ticks. The 
advantage of this fact is clearly shown in the cattle that I am raising in com- 
parison with those raised within a few miles, where the pastures are tick 
infested. 
There is one disadvantage in being free of ticks and surrounded largely by 
tick-infested territory. Last year I shipped about 700 head of cattle to Natchez, 
in Adams County, which was then tick free. Many thousand head of cattle 
were brought into Adams County from tick-infested districts during the over- 
flow and broke through the fences holding my cattle. As a result I lost 28 
head from tick fever, and those that did recover were so weak that when they 
were taken back to the plantation whenever they got in a bog they died because 
they didn't have strength enough to pull themselves out. I can certainly say 
without hesitation that any man is a fool to raise cattle with ticks on them 
when he can rid them of the ticks by dipping. 
The best way to convert an antitick-eradication advocate is to let him dip 
his cattle for six months and see the improvement in them. Let him weigh 
them before he starts dipping and again when they are free of ticks. 
There w T ere a few farms in Adams County which were reinfested 
witli ticks from cattle brought in from the overflowed districts. All 
of the cattle were dipped on arrival, but evidently there were some 
mature ticks which the single dipping did not kill. These premises 
are being held under quarantine and the cattle dipped regularly 
until they are absolutely free once more. 
Mississippi has made some wonderful strides in the eradication 
of the cattle tick, and the people of that State are to be congratu- 
lated on the work. 
The stockyards and packing houses at Atlanta. Ga.. were next 
visited. At the present time the stockyards at Atlanta do not handle 
