The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09

| bacon fat. goose grease, cotton seed oil | rancid butter or crude petroleum | Crude petroleum. since 1t is very pene- trating and since it is naturally rich in sulphur, and is much the cheapest Is about the best of all With other grease, use about one pound of sulphur to two gallons of grease. The why is easy>to see and understand Even liv- ing creatures must have vital air. or 1t must die. But ticks have no real lungs. How. then, do they hseathe. And the answer shows that the skins of the ticks are full of holes, or air pores, and all ticks breathe through their skins It is the only way they can or eversdo breathe.
 Now. cover the ticks fully with a film of oily grease. Yes. any oily grease, and the ticks will die and must speedily die. as certain as fate or des- tiny. Here Is the cure for ticky cat tie. But how about the pastures? We'll carefully note and remember this No female tick ever lays her eggs on the body of a COW. No. never. But when the big fat. fecund female tick is about 10 deposit her egs. she by instinct crawls out on the long hair of the an- imal and falls off on the ground and proceeds to deposit on the grass or herbage from 1.500 to 5000 eggs, and these eggs. each of them will hatch out in from thirteen days and upwards, according to the wormth or coolness of the weather. a new, young, active seed tick. And since very many fat fe- male ticks fall from one animal, the result will be that in three or four weeks the pasture will be alive with swarms and colonies of young, very small, but very active and very hun gry seed ticks. Especially hungry for their natural feed, the blood of the And then WY steer comes browsing along these hun gry seed ticks will crawl up the legs or the animal to where the skin is thinnest, between the Hanks, along the belly and between the forelegs, and there bite and bore. and breed anew, and suck blood. and infest the animal with the germs of the deadly Texas fever
 Here is the very genesis of the Tex as cattle fever, And now how to clear the infected pastures of these myriads or ticks? The answer Is SO simple that any man of the narrowest capac- lty can clearly understand. Every- thing that lives not only needs the vital air. but every living things must eat, must have it's natural food. or it must starve to death. Now ticks are the cattle parasites They don't eat grass. No. lon't think so. Their nat ural food is the blood of the COW. And just rigidly keep all cattle not some or few. but all the cattle off the pasture or the tick infected field for Few weeks after the ticks are ratched, and the necessary and inevit- able result Is they must starve to death. And the dead ticks on the ground are good harmless ticks Is there any reader so dull as not to com prehend this? Right here in few words are the whole philosophy, and plain method of the tick eradication Kill the ticks on the cattle bv using grease and sulphur and use common sense also; and kill the ticks in the field and pasture by rigidly keeping cattle off them, by sure starvation Yes, grease and sulphur will kill them when honestly applied on the cattle, and starvation will surely kill them on the fields and nastures-but don't forget to use common sense. too But many are careless and indifferent, some men are mentally lazy, and a few, but too many are selfish and re- ally vicious. And hence In the work of tick eradication, we need. as in oth- CT matters, the strong restraints of positive law.
 The Law
 Well, Congress has been appealed to and has responded to the call. It has by United States law directed and com
 
 to actively cooperate with the Az ricultural Department of each of the tick infested Staes in a general war fare on this enemy of all-the TeVas fever and the Texas cattle tick. The State of Alabama has recently enact ed a very clear. severe and Stringent law looking to the eradication of the cattle ticks and cattle pestilence. MT Rawls. don't write in spirit of flat tery. Nay. I take the other extreme. And I do say that, while I except you and a goodly number of other wide brained men, still not one Alabamian in ten. better say fifty. begin to com rrehend the immense development which lies before Alabama. Your State MT. Editor is literally stuffed full of all the natural gifts and elements which tend to the betterment of mans estate. Birmingham. rapid and mar vicious as has been and is now us growth is not to be all or the end oi 1 Alabama Coal iron. cotton. water power. timber and a thousand other resources, each to be developed in It's turn. And among these cattle industry is surely not the least. Now and foi ! fine present. while and as long as cat