The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-15
How to Check an Outbreak of Texas
 Fever

Get the cattle into a small pen or lot where each one can be caught or put into break" Grease the inside of the limbs and all parts of the body where ticks may be found with cotton seed oil, black oil Beaumont oil or old lard. kero- sene may be added so as to make one third of the volume of the mixture; also 1 pound of sulphur and l pound Of tar may be added with advantage, to each gallon of the oil mixture. All of the cat tie in the herd should be greased once per week until all the ticks disappear and the cattle stop dying. l have never known this treatment to fail in stopping outbreak of Texas fever in from one to two wekes. It is also advisable to give the cattle twice per week. in place of salt, a mixture of one-third sulphur and two- , thirds common salt.
 Cattle sick with Texas fever should be protected from the hot sun, cold rains and cold night. Feed well and give them good care. If the bowels are constipated give 1 to ? pints of raw linseed oil or cotton seed oil once per day until bowels act freely. being careful not to strangle the weak animal when giving the oil. Quinine may be given in 1 to dram doses two to three times per day. If the heart is weak tincture of digitalis or strophan- thus may be given Tn 1 fluid ounce doses 2 to times per day. In chrome cases, give 1 fluid dram of tincture chlo- ride of iron in one-half pint of water twice per day. It is best to give the sick animals wet bran, shorts or corn meal with salt in 1t; green grass. chopped hay, that has been steamed if sick animal is young give it sweet milk. Keep up the strength of the sick animal with good feed given frequently in small quantities. In spite of treatment the majority of acute cases will die It is much easier to prevent than to cure.
 A stockman living in a county not bordering on the government quarantine line would probably get along with fewer outbreaks of Texas fever if he kept just 8 few ticks on his cattle so that the ticks would inoculate the sucking calves. eiv- ing them the fever at a time when they are but slightly affected by it. Stock men who buy cattle for feeding or for pasturing should buy cattle that have ticks on them or that show tick marks on them; such cattle are nearly always immune to Texas fever. It Is never bd- visable to let immune cattle bee 'me literally covered with ticks
 At meeting of the State Veterina- rians of the Southern States. held at At lanta, Ga., October s. 1902, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:
 "Whereas, the disease known as Texas fever is responsible for the death of more cattle in the Southern States than all other diseases combined; aud,
 "Whereas. this disease is transmitted in a natural way solely by the parasite known as the cattle tick Cboophilus annu- latus): and,
 Whereas. by the use of the proper san itary measures this parasite can be ef- fectually destroyed on any farm or dis trict, and the Federal quarantine raised from such territory; therefore. be it
 Resolved l. That the entire tickin- fested area can and should ultimately be freed of the cattle tick.
 70 That an effort should first be made to eradicate ticks from those counties im- medately adjoining the Federal quaran- tine line.
 8. That this work should be done un- der the, auspices of a State Live Stock Sanitary Board or the CommiSsioner of Agriculture in each State. end imme- diately under the supervision of quail fled veterinarian.
 A. That each State should pass the proper sanitary regulations and appro- priate the requisite funds for this im- portant work.
 "5. That those tick free farms in coun- ties that are far south of the quarantine line, where the disease is common among native cattle raised on such farms should be infested with ticks, and kept sufficiently infested to insure immunity to the cattle until the quarantine lne has reached said counties.
 '6. That the State sanitary authorities should always heartily cooperate with the Federal authorities in their crusade against all tick infested territory"
 c. A. Cary, Veterinarian at Alabama Experiment
 Station.