The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-09-28
TIE TEXAS FEVER
Oflnterestt to Cattle Owners Through
ont the State.

The following article on the Treat
ment of Cattle for Texas Fever, writ
ten by a. S. Sheally, D. '. NJ, Of
Clemson College, for the Columbia
State, will be Of interest to our read
ers who raise or keep cattle:
AS there is such an increasing &c.
mand for the services Of the State
veterinarian throughout the State, l
take the opportunity to mention fe"
facts in connection with the many
calls to which 1 have responded with
in the last six weeks. / was sum-
moned, either by wire or by letter
saying: Come at once; cattle are
sick and dying" In every case, with
one exception, I found the same dis
ease, which is the only one at present
that menaces the cattle Industry OF
the State, viz: Texas fever, diStem-
per in cattle, or southern cattle 1eVer.
The deadly effects OF this olsease
have been discussed through toe col.
umns Of the newspapers Of this State,
at farmers institutes ana IN personal
conversation for the last four years
hv DR.. G. E. Nesom, my worthy
friend and coworker, who just a llttle
over a month ago severed his connec
ton with Clemson and took up work
in a new field. His bulletins have
been universally distributed, yet there
continues to be considerable loss
throughout the State from the effects
OF this disease. So much so, till am
forced to believe that our people do
not retain facts as they should after
they have once been presented to
them. At any rate, there are con-
tinual outbreaks Of Texas fever, and
while do not hope to be able to COM
pletely eradicate it by simply saying a
few words to the cattle owners OF the
State. yet if they should bear in mind
that the disease does not occur only
when it is produced in q mild form by
incubation, unless the common cattle
tick is present. Also should they re-
member that a number Of years ago,
when cattle were permitted to run at
large, the common cattle tick was
more or less prevalent on all cattle,
and there never was case Of the dis
ease noted, as well as the fact that a
number OF farms throughout the State
have become free from ticks, and Sc
long as they remain so the disease
dos not occur on these tick free
farms. With these facts in mind,
they can't help but come to the con
clusion that cattle must have ticks
and then all the time OF else never
have them at all.
To take measures to produce gen
ersl infection would be going back to
the same conditions as existed before
the 'scock law" went into efteco.
And as the environment OF cattle at
present has tendency to free them
from ticks, naturally it would only
take another period Of Is or 20 years
for us to gradually rise back to oul
present situation.
I realize the seeming impossloilltJ
Of freeing farm Of ticks, yet it car
be done by a systematic and thorough
cleaning OF the cattle once every ter
6ays or two weeks during the sum me-
months. And should there be any
cattle owners, whose farms are infest
ed. wishing to free their farms O
ticks, If they will address me l VII
gladly take the matter up with them
AsI have already stated, this dis
ease never occurs unless the common
cattle tick is present, and at this time
| yery little can be done to prevent tf'
further spread OF the disease excep'
| to thoroughly remove ali the tlck'
from the cattle and place them IN
pasture which is noninfested. In thI
way possibly a number OF the hero
/! will be taken out Of the infested ter
ritory before they have become infect
ed and will be placed where 1t Will o'
impossible for them to contract th'
disease, unless ticks gain access u
them later.
The medicinal treatment for AMI
mails while suffering from the diseas'
Is very unsatisfactory, the noralit,
being at least 80 per cent. Yet, l al
ways advise to Sreat them synpto
matically and hope for good results
I have had a few cases that recovered
under the following treatment, Whlcf
is the one I always recommend 10
cattle suffering from the disease
When the first symptoms OF the dis
ease are noted ticks that are on tht
animal should be thoroughly removed
and good purgatiVe given, viz: ZIP
som salts, in one or two pound doses
according to the size Of the animal
Within eight or ten hours after th'
administration Of the salts, commence
giving ouinine sulphate in one-hal
ounce doses dissolved in one-half PIN
OF whiskey three times a day. Con
tinue for at least three days. II tn
salts have not acted in "a hours, re
peat it's administration, giving onl!
half as much as was given in tie hrs
dose. The sick animals should be sep
Grated from the herd and given tn
benefit OF comfortable quarters.
Very young cattle have the powe
to Withstand the disease without an.
DANGEROUS results, and cattle owner
can bring calves under four months
old to their tick infested farms Will
practically no danger, provided thes'
calves become infested at once viii
ticks. Though I always advise TIT
! immune to Texas feYer when they ar
to be introduced on a farm infested
with ticks. This incubation can b
practiced successfully only with cattle
that are under two years old, though
I have inoculatsd, and with good re
suits, cattle much older.
The traffic in cattle is very import
ant TO the cattle owners OF the State
| II he has tick-free farm, no ANNA