Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-09-21

domestic cattle by the bite Of the COW.
loving tick-boophilus annuIatus. Now
when we learn that one single femal,
tick will produce from / 800 10 1900
eggs, and each egg can hatch new
tick no wonder they multiply and spread
and infect other cattle where tbey ara
by neglect permitted 10 live aud breed
No wonder they become a most prolific
pest.
"Thick as leaves in valhambrosa.
The Cure.
"And now what Is the lcureY What
will kill, utterly destroy this hated and
most costly and deadly pest2
What will eiectualy rid the infected
COW or steer Of this inimical tickY and
the answer is the plain old-fashioned
common English word.
cit is grease, grease, grease-and
little more grease, and some sulphur
added, and then often applied to the
legs. and the inside of the TANKS. and
between the forelegs and along the
belly, and whenever the ticks are found
on the body of your COW or steer, OH
farmer grease of any kind, kerosene,
cotton seed oil, lard, bacon grease, any
kind of soft oily grease, applied often,
and thoroughly, will kill the ticks any
time II is well tomix some sulphur
a pound of powdered sulphur to two
gallons OF but about the best
and cheapest, oil or grease to use is
common crude petroleum. Il is cheap
and it is most efficient. Sulphur Is
known to be an insecticide. But how
shall we rid our pastures of the ticksY
"Well, remember, the air is vital
All living and moving creatures must
breathe this vital air. But many crea-
tures--all insects have no lungs. How
then do the ticks breathe?
"And the reply of science is, through
the air pores. If these are stopped up,
and grease, oily grease, will surely do
it, the ticks will and must Immediately
die. Yes almost Immediately and here
let it be known that when the female
tick fecured with eggs she purposely
falls off the COW brute upon the grass or
leaves OF the pasture, or cattle range,
and in thirteen days, or more according
to the weather, her 800 to 5000 eggs
will hatch out, and these wall, as a mat
ter of instinct. get on the legs of pass
ing COW or steer, and crawl up to where
the skin is thinnest-and suck and bite.
and infect in their turn.
"NOw, if cattle are we'll treated, and
kept creased, as to their legs these ticks
always hatch on the ground, cannot
crowd upon the cattle. They will get
creased in turn and die.
"Know this, Oh farmersl il every COW
brute in Tennessee were at once creased
as explained and kept well creased, two,
or better three times each week, till
winter after once being cleaned by
picking off and killing the big ones,
there would not be a tick alive next
summer in all the good State of Tennes-
see.
"The young must get on the COW brute
or it must starve and die. Thus the
pastures would be cleaned. 1.-THE cat
tie are well CREASED and kept so till
winter comes they would be clean, and
cattle and pastures would both be clean
and the ticks all dead.
"The great loss would be saved. Ten
nessee would be benefited. All would
be -farmers and everybody else. All
are interested Every man who eats
beef, every man who loves good butter,
every mother who gives her children
milk-everybody just so long as babies
are born into the world barefooted in
word, everybody in Tennessee is inter
ested, whether they know it or not, in
the eradication of the cattle ticks-the
common enemy of all men-boophilus
annuatus.
"And now few words in conclusion,
Congress has placed large sum, by a
unanimous vote, in the hands of the Sec
rotary of Agriculture, James Wilson, for
the>fght against the ticks.
"The Commissioner of Agriculture,
Mr.. Ogilvie, and the State Inspector,
Mr.. Kittrell, are also most deeply inter-
ested. And the Bureau of Animal In
dustry and the State authorities of Ten.
nessee are working together in most
cordial cooperation.
"And all must see that this is no party
or partisan matter. There is no Demo-
cratic smallpox of Republican cholera.
THE state has made it highly penal
ofense for any man to spread the dis
ease
at is now crime punishable either
by fine or Imprisonment.
at has not been enforced by penal
law in many cases, but, Mr.. Editor it
surely will be- Now, it is the duty, and
it surely will be to the interest Of every
man who owns as much as one COW to
do his best to help exterminate the
ticks.
at is the interest andthe duty of each
County Court do its part, and every
County Board of Health.
LET every nook and corner be hunt
ed out. Let information be at once
given to your Board of Health, and the