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EFFECTS OF TICK ERADICATION. 
not be put on all of the ticks, for some parts of the cattle would be skipped 
over in the hand greasing. For four years I did this, and it was both hard and 
expensive work. At the suggestion of a tick inspector of the Bureau of Animal 
Industry who visited our county I built a dipping vat, the first one in the 
State of Mississippi. After dipping was regularly taken up it did not take 
long to free my cattle of ticks. 
When tick eradication was first started in this county there was much oppo- 
sition to it, due to ignorance of the work and all kinds of misrepresentations 
made by people opposing it ; but as the work progressed this sentiment died out. 
Since the county has been released from quarantine I do not believe a man 
could be found who will say that the work was not of great benefit to everyone. 
Fig. 5. — A Hereford bull in Mississippi, McCray Fairfax, 361803, grand champion Here- 
ford bull at the National Feeders and Breeders' Show, Fort Worth, 1913. This is the 
type of bull which should be used in breeding up the native southern cattle. (Cour- 
tesy of La Vernet Farm.) 
My herd of cattle contains about 50 registered Angus, the remainder being 
grades and natives. Last fall I took my grade calves from their dams, started 
them on a ration of corn silage and cottonseed meal, and fed them for 120 
days, in the barn. They made good gains for the whole period, and sold for 
11 cents a pound this spring. Accurate records were kept of all the feeding, 
and I made about $15 profit on each of them. Hereafter I will fatten some 
cattle for the market each year, and expect them to do even better than they did 
this year. 
I have no trouble at all in selling all of my purebred yearlings at good prices 
for breeding purposes. In fact I have no bulls on hand that are for sale at the 
present time. The cattle industry of this county is now in the most prosperous 
condition that it has ever experienced. Many cattle shippers who formerly 
sent most of their cattle to the New Orleans market are now shipping to St. 
Louis, because their cattle go in the native pens and bring better prices than 
