The story of the cattle fever tick; what every southern child should know about cattle ticks by United States. Bureau of animal industry

Author:United States. Bureau of animal industry. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Cattle tick
Publisher: Washington, U. S. Department of agriculture
Published: 1922-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

GETTING RID Of TICKS.

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GETTING RID OF TICKS HELPS A COUNTY.

You can see that it is a very good thing for cattle owners to get rid of ticks. Without ticks they have more milk and meat to sell. Their cattle do not die of fever. They can raise more cattle. They can raise better kinds of cattle. They get full returns from their feed. They make more money.

Getting rid of fever ticks is a good thing also for all the business men of the county. If cattle raisers and dairymen have more milk and meat to sell, they will have more money to spend in the stores for clothes and groceries and machinery. They will have more money to put into the banks. When there are no ticks, the cattle raisers get more money for their beef cattle at the big cattle markets. This brings more money from the outside into the county. When more money comes into the county, the people of the county are more prosperous. There is more business and more work for them. Everyone gets a share of the extra money.

A MEDICINE WHICH KILLS TICKS.

It is easy to get rid of cattle fever ticks. It does not cost much money nor take very much time or trouble. It is worth doing.

The United States Department of Agriculture has found a sure and simple way to kill all of the fever ticks in a county.

It has made a medicine called an arsenical bath. This medicine kills all the ticks that are wet with it.

The easiest way to wet the ticks is to make the cattle swim through a vat filled with this medicine.

To make a vat, the people first dig a deep, long trench. They line this trench with concrete and

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