The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-24
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Is ISL "n6 young Jeroo.
bull and I will describe the caso
will you answer through yonr ~
as to the disease and how to paF'
the same. "'I
He was sick two days stood dro.
ed with his head hung to the pron
seemed cool and trembly, sta ona-
in his hind parts and did not oa4
drink anything, After he died W. "
him cut open. His bladder Woo
big as a mans head, full Of bIo,s
seemed to be pressed to his bons
Any information will DO apDraoIaL9
W. L.G.
(Answer by Corresponding Edit,.
Emery.
The description of the diso..,,
bull, although brief, would Seem y
indicate Texas Fever. It lacks %,
frmatory evidence which might ber.
been found by an examination e.,
ticks, and some knowledge of fl,
animal and it's recent history.
There has been so much in ii,
papers and these outbreaks bars
been so common for a few years tbo.
it seems almost unnecessary to .,
into details about it. Treatment i
mainly preventive. Some cases 70
cover and perhaps these can be heln3
by administering physics and TONES
keeping quiet and in as cool a plae
as possible. Ticks should be looked
for and removed before animals
sicken. This is a step toward Dire.
vention.
One essential bit of information
consists of some knowledge of how
Texas Fever acts, what animals it
preys on, and how to keep these free
from liability to take it.
The disease manifests itself in the
patient losing appetite and drooping
It moves sluggishly, has more or less
fever. lies down much of the time
and in a few days dies, or slowly re
covers and drags around in an ema
ciated condition. This means lost
profits and capital, too.
To prevent this disease should be
the main object of the owners Of
cattle. This can be surely accom-.
plished by destruction of all the ticks
on the cattle in the neighborhoOd
and keeping them from reproducing
for one year then keep tickinfested
cattle away from stock enclosures
and highways after that. Recent
numbers Of the PROGRESSIVE FARMER
have shown the work of the State
Department of Agriculture regard
ing this disease and the quarantine
line. It is all important that cattle
owners and care-takers should heed
appreciate, and second this work BY
destroying the ticks on the cattle
they have in hand,
It will not do to belittle the danger
because your cattle may have always
had ticks. If you introduce one AM
NAL among them which has never
been infested it will be liable to die
of fever if it becomes infested: or,
raise this years calves on uninfeCtea
land without ticks and turn part OF
them, when grown, out on intecEeQ
land and q ticky animal in with the
others and losses by fever will prove
that the school of experience Is
costly,
But prevention is the remedy, ana
it's application betimes is a sure one
Kill the ticks on your cattle THIS
year, noaO, and keep them down by
frequent examinations and destroy
ing them when small by washing Vn0
infested stock with a wash which
kills the ticks. This may be a kerO,
sine emulsion.
We have advised this inquirer u
use chloro- naphtholeum one part "
forty or fifty parts of water. In'
Kills the small ticks and is also us,
.nfectant and obnoxious to 1nSec'''
wash of it now and then reduces
5he attacks of flies and is ettectl'0
scab, barn itch, and oIn0l
diseases it kills lice, and is healln0
20 abrasions Of the skin, ulcers e'.
Greasing the legs, underpartS' Siuot
md switches of cattle running o|'
IN commons which are infested WIZ
ticks keeps down their numbers
owners in the tick-infestea 50
wOTld OuIv observe. these 9uo