The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-09-12
THE CATTLE TICK
CAUSES GREAT LOSS TO TIE
WESTERN FaRwERs.
airy Cattle Not 90 8.dly kf-eted
But There is Much Toss
There. some Facts.

| Government experts recently ser
cut to investigate the ra7ages OF ca
tie tick report that below the quarar
sine there sre something ever Is 90
900 cattle, the total farm value {
7hich is given by the last census a
asarly s133 900 600. The dairy cat
slA are credited with q value of abou
s5s. $50 900 a. d the oEher cattle wit
over s124 0c0 900 From Observation
aud experience it is estimated that
shrinkage In value Of 20 per cent Il
cattle other than dairy cattle Is du
directly to the efscts II the tick. I:
round NUMBERS this would mean q los
o. s25, 0)0 0c0 tor besf cattle.
The dairy csttle being better care'
TOR and to large extea5 confined II
!ots where the tick do nor flourish o!
-vsn exist, suffer less dsm.gs. How
var, ccnsid rsb!a damage is expert
;nced IN great many ins$ar CPS, es
2ecially in the c'un.ry, hec5uss of the
s1ira ':ed required aud tae shrink
aee in ths a e OF n'lk caused b7 tics
tnfestioc. I: is b lived shat an esti'
nate Of fve per cent Of the total VI
ae OF the oairy cattle ts not oVer
charging tha tick T Is means an an
aual loss OF nearly SO 600 600 for dairy
cattle. The total depreciation o:
,outhern cattle on account Of the tick
would be s28 900 600.
The loss from exposure In the south
s,n states is partially dus TO the ne
gligenc7 OF the people In Iegsrd Il
their cattle. Seldom Is any pre.V slcI
made for shelter OF any additiona
feed. The fx,assiVe loss from expJ
sure and disease IN tbs tick-lnfestec
states must be ascribsd to the tick
Tue loss in the states with the mosi
equable climates is greatest because
sick actively is greatest there and ths
lex SEASON is the longer.
The total number Of cattle tina,
died in the tick.infested district dur
Ing the year ending March 81, 1916
was about 1880 ,00], death being du
largely to exposure This lose coasts
tutes nearly so per cent Of toe tots
loss suffered by the waol7 cJunsr'
and yet the tick.intssted states con
tain barely Is per osa5 OF the count1
cattle. The average value OF thes'
southern cattle, both milk and bee
breeds, may be put at sl2, according
to the bureau Of STATISTICS; thsrefor'
zoe total annual less from death II
the tick-intested states amounted tx
SIS, 10000 The average death rate
In ousrantined states being nearly
threa times as great as that In tht
tick free states, it is not Unfair to as
sumo that two thirds Of this loss b,
death is directly attributable to Gh'
tick, that is, 10000, 600.
The average value Of southern COZ
tie is 81 below that OF northern cattle
In the state Of Arkansas beef cattl;
are given a farm value OF 81 SO pei
head. The cattle Ct Iowa sre value,
at .42-almosh three times al
much. II $4,000 900 cattle OF better
blood could take the place OF IL, 900,
900 scrups, the Valuat! IN OF southern
cattle acu:d be aoou, s84 600, 600 nor'
than 1t Is todsy. The southern stase'
With the tick gone, Woulc on douol
sad evan trsbs the number OF Gag
tie In the northern states
Que OF the gr; atest beDef 8 tina
sould follow t;.e eradication OF tn
cattle tick would be the Increases
fertility Of the soil that would fssul
from a great cstsle Industry in tf'
sou.h. Instead Of exporting as nov
t: foreign couatries-over 600, 600,
900 pounds OF cotton seed meal yeaF
ly. which il converted into Go wcul
bring from IS, 900, 600 to 100000
mere than is recsivei for it frou
abroad, it could be fed to cattle, an
Shus would be kept at home the enol
nous amount OF fertilizer OF wh1c
the farms are row robbed, besides sc
curing tbs $40 900, 900 extra value fo
the finished product. The fertil!zs
saved to the lands OF the south woul
represent $40, COO 900 in direct value
It is believes that, all told, To
south loses annually between 500
600, 900 and 5000, 900. 900 through th
savagts Of the tisk.