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AMD iMMEm AXETTE
A Farm and Home Weekly for
Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida,
FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C.
Vol. XXIX. No. 12
SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1914
$1 a Year; 5c. a Copy
IS YOUR COUNTY STILL DISGRACED WITH TICKS?
MAP SHOWING PROGRESS OF TICK ERADICATION WORK IN THE SOUTH
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The heavy black line shows boundary of original tick-infested, quarantined area. Since active work began the unshaded areas have been cleaned of ticks and released from Federal Quar
antine. This cleared area is about four times as large as the State of Alabama. Note the wonderful progress made in Mississippi.
THERE are few progressive movements of more surpassing im:
portance to Southern agriculture than that of eradicating the
cattle tick. The progress and popularity of this work since it
began in 1906 have been marvelous. At first the
efforts of the states and Government were ridi
culed asjbeing harebrained and impracticable.
But many of "those who came to scoff have re
mained to pray," as is evidenced by the latest
order from the United States Government, which .
amends the quarantine regulations and declares
tick-free more than 17,000 square miles of new
territory. Since this work began the cattle tick
has been eradicated in a total area of 215,908
square miles, or more than four times the size of
the average Southern state.
Tennessee is the first of the states extensively
infested to be entirely freed of this pest, and
cattle from that State are now free to compete
FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE
About the Farm Home ... 9
A Reading Course in Agriculture 13
A Study in Seed Corn Selection 5
A Successful Farmers' Pur
chasing Agency 26
California Fruit Growers' Ex
change 5
Cotton Variety Tests . 6
Furrow Slices ....... 8
Peanuts-Preparation and Fer-
tilization ... . . .7
Some Florida Babies . . .14
The Farmer's Garden ... 22
in any market in the country. Mississippi has also made great
progress in the work, nearly half of the State now being tick-free.
Study the above map, Mr. Progressive Farmer, and see whether
your county is in the white area or whether it is
still tick-infested. In the latter case, you should
lose no time in getting in touch with the inspec
tor in charge of the work in your territory, and
plan to get it under way in your neighborhood.
Tick eradication is no longer an experiment;
nor can there be any further doubt as to tne im
mense losses the tick is each year occasioning.
We may as well- make up our minds, once for
all, that ticks and profitable livestock produc
tion can never go together. We confidently ex
pect to see the time when there won't be a cattle
tick left in the entire South, and, simultaneously,
we expect to see the South a section of profita
ble livestockproduction.