The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-18

hixalM alX Ma9Hl v iM - - lW MU H - U aB can reduce the acidity, of soils on which you wish to SOW alfalfa by the use of wood ashes, is you rann can obtai5 I5 at low cost. you can use. them for the | purpose mentioned, A large propor- | tion of the weight of ashes consists amount of potash and the small | amount of phosphoric acid contained | in them should be beneficial. Ashes | vaulable as fertilizer than pine wood ashes. I am glad to hear the success | that you had with your first cutting l mum amount of ashes applied be 1000 I pounds per acre with an increase up to 5000 pounds where there Is mark. of ashes is suticientiy low
 Texas Fever in Cattle.
 publication has been issued by the United States Department of Agricul- | ture on the subject or Texas fever, disease which has been a very serious prosperity of the cattle industry of this s0n%''y some Years sSpsst ago it was conciusiveiy
 anns Ry the nsastn se Gf the investigations that this disease. which 1 is also known as splenetic fever and Southern cattle fever. is transmitted | this Texas fever tick there would be no Texas fever Later experiments have been made with the object of eating the ticks and preventing the 1 disease. The results of these various investigations are presented in Bulle- dustry. The bulletin contains Vaiuab bie | information for stockmen ceIcerning g practical methods for sTadicating the l Texas fever tick from both the animals l hREGFfheG 1 measures to be adopted for the proven tion and treatment of the disease It. | self
 The cattle tick is not only the car rier of the Texas fever infection, but is a parasite which deprives cattle of much blood. retards growth. reduces irritable state known as "tick worry. | It. therefore. becomes manifest that the extern1ination of this tick fwill be of the greatest advantage to the profit able raising and feeding of cattle in the infected district. This territory has been carefully studied and guar antine line established which extends
 It is well known that the animals coming from below this line and sold in the Northern stock yards bring an average of one-fourth to one-half a market prices
 500, pounds for all classes of animals including stock, beef. and dairy cat tie. there Is a decrease In value of at least S1.50 per head for the estimated marketed market HehH under these esa conditions. which amounts to loss of s1.057,5d0 each year. This decreased value re- acts and fixes the valuation of all cat tie which remain In the infected ter ritory Thus, It Is estimated that there are in the quarantined area four the Mississippi and eleven millions ton of $50 per head will give the enormous shrinkaRe in value of s23,- 25o.ooo. directly chargeable to the cat tie tick. This should bS regarded as an unnecessary reduction in the as- sets of the infected country.
 The above figures do not include the decrease in flesh and the lack of development of the infested animals, nor the expense to the Federal State shrinkage in the milk production of cattle harboring many ticks will loss occasioned at three cents per quart for the S75,o00 ticky dairy cattle out of more than 4.0n0.000 dairy cattle amount to s2e.25o per day. or. counting N S00P milking days for each COW to the year to $7,S65,p00 annually. It has also 3S7.000 animals die each year of Texas fever, and at an estimated value of $15 per head this means loss of $5.S12,- l
 If all these losses are taken into ac- count, 1t will be seen that Texas fever Is responsible for a loss of about $40,- 100000 annually to the stockmen of and annual sacrifices of the cattle raisers 1t Is believed can be entirely In this publication, and at sma1l pro portionate cost, for, with the general application of the measures described. the cattle tick may be wholly exter- pended on this. work will be returned year, One of the t.I dificuIties M en- 9 fighting the plague Is in confusing the Texas fever tick with the variow' other ticks occasionally. found on cat so far as the transmission of the dis l ease is concerned For this reason a. brief popular description of the va rious ticks foilnd on cattle, together with colored illustrations, showin.; their appearance in different stages, Is contained in this publication.
 just issued the annual regulations for the prevention of the spread of Texas | fever. effective Feabruary 1 On and
 that d1.1 date cattle grn are are mot all9wed area to other parts of the country ex- cept by. rail for. immediate slaughter and under certain conditions prescrib- ed in the regulations.
 Most of the cattle in the Southern States are immune to Texas fever, but as they are infested with ticks they disseminate the disease, which is very des' '~uctive to other cattle. It Is there's necessary to observe strict regulations during the greater portion of the year to prevent the spread of the infection to non infected areas, as serious losses would surely
 During the winter mnths the dag ger of infection Is so diminished that cattle are permitted to be moved from gent regulations than at other seasops of the year The open season applies during the months of November. De- cember and January to all localities. and for the States of Virginia and North Carolina, the time is extended to March Is.
 prescribed in the regulations lust ls- sued, includes the following territory; The whole of the States of Arkansas, Louisiana. Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina and Florida, the Indian Terri tory, all of Georgia except a few north ern counties. the southern half of Cal homa, the eastern half of Texas, the southern half of Tennessee, a few counties in southeastern Kentucky. the eastern hree-fourths of North Caro- lima. and the southeastern part of l Virginia.
 dipped or otherwise satisfactorily treated under government supervision and freed from ticks may be shipped without restrictions,
 In some of the States and Terri tories which are quarantined on ac- count of this disease the local author ities are putting forth efforts to ex- | fa v4rbic m