The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., January 29, 1910, Page 65, Image 13

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□ LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. □
AN ADDRESS TO THE MISSISSIPPI
LEGISLATURE.
To the Honorable Members of the
Senate and Hou.se of Representa
tive*.
Gentlemen: At the last annual
meeting of the Mississippi Live Stock
and Dairy Association held at the an
nual round-up Farmers’ Institute
Convention on August 26, 1909, the
following resolutions were adopted:
"That In view of the recent
serious losses in the State from
contagious diseases of animals,
such as hog cholera, glanders,
etc., and the enormous annual
loss of over $2,500,000 caused
by the cattle tick which so seri
ously retards the development
and lessens the profits of live
stock farming in the State, we
respectfully petition the Legisla
ture nt its next regular session
to appropriate at least $50,000
for the use of the Live Stock
Sanitary Board in order that
these diseases may be extermi
nated at the earliest possible
dnf a
"That In order to more success
fully combat the ravages of the
diseases of animals, we respect
fully petition the Legislature at
its next regular session to enact
a .law- authorizing the county
boards of supervisors to appro
priate funds to assist the Live
Stock Sanltnry Hoard in this
work."
These resolutions were not passed
without full discussion and mature
deliberations. They represent the
opinions of a highly Intelligent and
influential body of the S'ate’s lead
ing citizens. For the live stock
breeders always represent the most
Intelligent and advanced of the agri
cultural population.
As the officers representing the
membership of the Mississippi Live
Stock and Dairy Association, as citi
zens deeply interested In the develop
ment of the live stock industry of the
State, and as having a large experi
ence In the successful efforts which
have been made towar 1 the eradlca
tlon of the cattle tick, we wish to
especially call your attention to the
above resolutions, and to invite your
cnreful consideration of the follow
ign well-established facts:
(1 ) It is a well-established fact
that the loss of cattle from ticks Is
such a burden to the cattle Industry
that successful cattle raising Is ex
tremely difficult. If not Impossible
until the ticks shall have been eradi
cated.
(2) The cattle ticks cost Missis
sippi each year, even though our cat
tle Industry Is limited and undevelop
ed. several times the amount asked
for by the stock breeders of the
State to continue the work of tick
eradication which has been so well
started through the appropriation of
the last Legislature.
(3) These losses caused by the cat
tle tick result from the death of
thousands of cattle each year by tick
fever (Texas fever, bloody murrain,
etc.), the germs of which are alone
transmitted by the tick; by the re
tarding of growth and a lessening of
milk production resulting from the
Irritation of the skin and large
quantities of blood sucked by the
ticks, and by a depreciation In price
of not less than from one quarter to
one cent per pound on every animal
In the State. This depreciation in
price Is because of the restriction
placed on the movement and market
w
Ing of our cattle by the Federal Gov
ernment on account of the presence
of the ticks on our cattle.
(4) Any one of these three losses
resulting directly from the presence
of the ticks is sufficient to Justify
(he cost and trouble of eradicating
'he cattle tick even if the other two
losses did not exist.
(6) These losses sustained from
the presence of the cattle tick dur
ing any two years if saved and ap
plied to measures proved to be ef
fectual, would completely eradicate
the cattle tickB from the State.
(6) Cattle raising Is the basis of
the live stock industry for our cheap
lands, and live stock husbandry is
essential to any permanently success
ful system of agriculture. With the
coming of the boll weevil, cattle rais
ing becomes doubly important to the
farmers of Mississippi, but success
ful cattle raising is practically im
possible in the presence of the cattle
(7) From personal experience, and
from what has been done by the
State and Federal Governments, we
state with positive assurance that it
has already been thoroughly estab
lished that the cattle tick can be
eradicated; that the cost of eradicat
ing the tick is not greater than the
losses caused by their presence dur
ing any two years.
(8) It pays to eradicate the ticks
from a herd, a township, a county or
State, and when any territory is once
free of ticks, it is easily kept so at
practically no expense. This work
of tick eradication has been proved
to be feasible, and It pays and pays
well.
(9) In view of the prevalence of
hog cholera and anthrax in the State,
ind inasmuch as these diseases can
he controlled and prevented by vacci
nation, we deem it of the greatest
Importance that the Live Stock Sani
tary Board be provided with suffi
cient funds to deal with this matter
effectively. thus preventing th»
spread of these diseases and the enor
mous losses sustained.
In view of the above facts, and
especially in view of the great losses
occasioned by the ticks and the es
tablished and demonstrated fact that
these ticks may be eradicated for a
mere trifle of the losses occasioned
by them, we, the officers of the Mis
sissippi Live Stock and Dairy Asso
ciation, on behalf of the large num
her of Influential citizens represented
In its membership ask your careful
consideration of this Important ques
tion and urge you as an economic
•ind patriotic duty to provide the
funds asked for, $ SO,000, for carry
ing on this work of tick eradication
ind the control of animal diseases
'•o well begun through the use of the
small appropriation made two years
ago.
Very respectfully,
TATT BUTLER, President,
ARCHIBALD SMITH. Sec.,
Mississippi Live Stock and Dairy As
sociation.
JERSEY HULL FOR SALE
Record of Millbrook OOflOS. Seven years old. Fint
individual. Sire Golden Lad, guaranty 0041*6
Sell to avoid inbreeding. Will exchange for ai
well bred individual. Price, #75.00.
N. R. COTTON, Jonesville, La.
Poifcrd Chi** * ogs
Of Fancy Breeding.
White and Silver Wyandottes and B. P. Rocks.
1 leritt, $1.50, Cockerels $2.00 and $2.50 each.
A. F. TUGGLE, R. F. D. No. 1, Brush Creek, Tenn
OX HOUNT
Pedigreed ar>d Guaranteed
Red Foxes 18.00 Grays, $7
J. 0. Stodghill. • • Shiioyville.
I THE 1910
IDE LAVAL
I CREAM
SEPARATOR
I In keeping with the established
■ De Laval custom of making the
■ De Laval Cream Separators as
I much better each year as possible,
I the De Laval machines for 1910
I show even greater perfection than
■ they have in the past.
■ The dairy farmer who buys a 1910
H De Laval can feel assured that he
H has by far the best cream separator
■ ever made anywhere at any time.
I The dairy farmer who lets the
■ year or even the month pass by
m without at least seeing and exam
■ ining the 1910 De Laval will be
I doing himself an injustice.
I The opportunity of examining
I and trying a 1910 De Laval right
■ at his own home is open, free of
m all cost or trouble, to every dairy
I man who will simply say the word.
■ Next to a De Laval machine is
I the De Laval catalogue, free for
H the asking and containing a sepa
I rator education in itself.
| The De Laval Separator Co.
■ 166-167 BROADWAY 178-177 WILLIAM BT.
■ NEW VONK MONTREAL
■ 42 E. MADISON «T. 14 A 18 PRINCESS ST. I
■ CHICAGO WINNIPEG
■ DRUMM A SACRAMENTO STS. 1016 WESTERN AVI. |
I _
PRIZE WINNING POLAND CHINAS
If you are going to buy hoga buy good
hoga. they are the cheapest. My herd
won nine ribbons at the Oklahoma
State Fair 1909. A lot ot Fancy Boar*
for Male. Write today.
J. R. Sparks,.Hunter, Okla.
Blue Bibbon Berkshires.
In compettilor with Sherds, 6 States, I a.
State Fair Nor. 1 6 09 we won 7 firsts, 4 sec
onds, 2 thirds. I championship, first and sec
ond Mnerlcan B. A specials Including 160.00
sliver cup. thus'‘emoustratlng the Bup« rlor
I dividual merit as well as lashlonable blood
lln s of <-ur consolidated herd. Addre-s lor
prices FKIKHSON A HOLLI VONWOKTH,
Shreveport 1a.. or Coushatta, La.
Our 1909 Record
60 PUFMIUMS <T 3 1AHS,
Berkshire "ogs. Cheviot Sheep, Angora
Goals. Kmbd- u and Toulous, Gees . Barr
ed a>.d White I’ K «ct Ch'ckens Get our
prices. CL' »\ KKD » LE ST< M K FA KM.
H C Davidson Proprietor,
Obion, Tennessee,
Duroc Jrrmeu I'iy. Su*Jec to registration. tlO.
P. Gouhmkt,
H. F. D. No. 2. - Macon, Miss.
Ksglstsrsd tnglisli BsiksMrs
Hsgt for sale by
CLEM LEA.
Hilmkk. Tenn.
I
berkshires
Bred right, fed right, priced right. A few
choice Sows only, on band.
I J. W. HAMILTON, - - Houlka, Miss.
—
DUPOC- JEV-SEY PIG
Registered. Ancestry unsurpassed. No b<
ter breed o< hogs
W C GUTHRIE. Port Gibson, Miss
25 GRADE RED POLL
Crossed with Devon. Springers. Gn
Red Poll Bull Calves.
HAY—Car lots, or less, to suit demand.
J. BURRUSS McGEHEE,
LAUREL HILL P. O..
Name this oarer
JACKS and SIALLJON
Catalonian and registered Mammoth Ji
and Jennets, registered trotting and sat
stallions As usual we won more pretuli
on jack stock this year than all other Br
ers. In the Biue Grass Write (or catalogu
visit The Cook Farms.
J. F. COOK & CO.,
Lexington, Ky
*UO POLt CA * Hf KegISM
i rumune te tick tever. Young bulls and
ers lor sale. A large herd of carefully sell
and well bred cows to sen ct from. Conn
see them. Address
J. B. BRIDGE!, Managei
or. v> a TURNER.
Magowah Meadows dtook Kara
R. F. D. 1. Crawford. Miss.
Gi. O. CLOYl
UNION CITY - * - TENNlJ
PUROC JERSEY Pll
Iron) one ol the oldest breeders In the :M
Klch In color. Bred In the Purple. alsaM
bred gilts an-* sows. Writs tor p< Ices. ■
L M Whitakih A Co Muioerry iM
ANGUS BULL
One two year old, well bred. Registered Bp
Bull, for sale. The bull is immune from ticl^B
W. H. HURD®
Holly Springs, ■[
»ULL CaLF I
Registered Jersey Bull Calf, for sale, a g<K|
all over. He is perfect in color and fon^f
large for his age. A perfect beauty, an<®|
bred. Four months old. Write for price. ^B
B B COOPER!
Tuscaloosa, AlaMl
P C HOGS
1 • w* ■■VMM Rooks, all sired®
cocks that won lat and 2nd prizes atH
field, Tmn. Prices that will please yoiM|
W a POPE, Verona.
m Kmiucri iaoB
Is the whoieeals ho^H
jeeka, as ws breed t^N
the big mammoth KM
lacks, and sell youM
olass lack K to BO
oheaper than i AtM
speculator san. Wrlt^H
for prlees on iMka,
A large lot to •oleoUrom.^M
|ApK Black Starlight, alx years
IHblt hands high, a fln« lndlvlHiMj§
sale. Address C. S. W. PvULH
Floissch^
IMPORTED GERvfl
COACH STALLIOfl
Allmedo No. 3529. five years old. dark bflj||
hands, weighs, 1325 pounds, kind and
for sale. Sure fouler. The kind of hor^Hfl
prove your stock. For further informa^Bg|
dress.
BENJ F ELMOB
DemopolU, Ala. H
FOUR GOOD JACKS
All Good Color*. Good Age*. wcB
and sound in every pa ti ular HflB
us for pnces
ASA W. ALLEN COMPl
T pelo. Mi-a.
POLAND < HI\A PlGSB
Fasiiionably bred, registered P. C. Pi^H8||
six weeks old. $10.00 and upwards. |||||§j§
s. J. wai.l^B
StarkvillsHl||
standard Bred Stall
I have for Sale Thrr-o Choicely Bred Yoi^^BH
hor.~, all broken to Harness and Saddle. HjH
information write,
Sig Kohorn, Stark ville, ■|||