CATTLE TICK MENANCE

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 18 March 1920, Page 3

CATTLE TICK MENANCE

STRINGENT REGULATIONS

The following is clipped from a Northern exchange:—

Some months ago the local branches of the Farmers' Union took up the question of the Cattle Tick Regulations and their application to this district. General complaint was made that the.Regulations were stringent, and it was hoped that their enforcement would not be too severe. However, farmers must recognise that the regulations remain in force, without any modification whatever, and there appears to be no intention on the part of the.Department to lessen tho stringency of the regulations in any degree. As a matter of fact, the tendency of the Department appears to be in quite the other direction. In view of this fact, it is rather surprising that no attempt has yet been made by farmers in the Kaipara to provide dips for their cattle, and it may be that in the tick season the failure of the farmers in this respect will react rather disastrously upon" themselves. It is not hard to understand that if the tick is at all prevalent next seaspn, athd there are no means available to effectively combat it, according to the regulations then there will be no stock sales in the district, either private or public, for tick infested cattle will not be allowed on the roads. Farmers need to wake up to the seriousness of the position. Whose responsibility it is to erect the necessary dips wante to be fought out right away and finally decided so that time may be taken by the forelock in regard to this matter, and unnecessary loss avoided later on.