The Harrison Times

The Cattle Tick is Going.

In six years 139,821 square miles of territory had been released from quarantine, and since then several thousand square miles more has been freed. In California alone 67,977 miles was placed above the quarantine line, and, as the map shows, the work in that State has been practically completed. In North Carolina 13,993 miles had been cleared of ticks; in Texas, 13,311; in Tennessee, 11,989; in Virginia, 11,080; in Oklahoma, 7,890; in Arkansas, 7,220; in South Carolina, 2,673; in Mississippi, 2,019; in Kentucky, 841; in Georgia, 8; Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri alone of the infested States had made no progress, and this is only a small corner of the state—nearly 140,000 square miles had been freed, and there remains 60,194 square miles of infested territory. The job was almost two-fifth completed in five years. We hope from the National Department of Agriculture next week to have figures direct showing just what has been done in the last year. The man who says the tick cannot be eradicated talks nonsense. The man who doubts that it will be done, fails to give Southern farmers credit for as much intelligence as they possess.