ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
HOW WILL THE ERADICATION OF THE CATTLE TICK 
BENEFIT THE PRACTICING VETERINARIAN?* 
By A. C. Steyer, Veterinary Inspector, U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry. 
Success for the veterinary practitioner in any community de¬ 
pends largely upon the number and quality of animals in that 
section. 
Progress along any line, especially the livestock industry, 
depends upon the breeding of high-class stock, either grades or 
pure-bred. This condition of affairs in the section of the United 
States quarantined on account of the Texas fever tick can only 
be accomplished through the eradication of the tick, because 
cattle owners in this area will not, and I might add cannot, prof¬ 
itably make a success of breeding and marketing cattle. 
In the Middle West during the early nineties horses and 
mules were cheap, on account of the national panic at that time 
and the large number of inferior animals, consequently hundreds 
of veterinarians left their practices in the rural districts and took 
up their abodes elsewhere. Fortunately for some who remained, 
however, an interest in cattle raising was stimulated; cattle were 
selling high. The farmers became interested, started breeding 
good cattle, and as a result the veterinarian who remained in 
those districts soon enjoyed a lucrative cattle practice. 
Georgia—the entire South, for that matter—is distinctly an 
agricultural section, and in the rural districts the veterinarians 
must have a limited practice, because, as a rule, the small farmer 
* Presented at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Georgia State Veterinary Medical 
Association, Atlanta, Ga., December 21, 1911. 
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