The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-08-29

no COW or steer ever had this deadly
fever unless it was first affected by
these fever ticks. And all cattle, un-
less freed from them, will soon take
the fever. Again, under the micro
scope these germs are found in the
blood of sick cattle-sick with the
Texas Fever-and also in these ticks.
And nowhere elsel And, further, ticks
have been picked off the bodies of sick
cattle in Texas, placed in a sealed box
and sent by mail 1000 miles to the gov
ernment experiment station in Mary
land and placed in contact with cattle,
chosen for the experiment, and they
soon were down with the Texas Fever.
The proof is positivel
THE CURE
The sure cure is to kill all the ticks.
Kill them on live cattle, and kill them
on the pastures. But how kill them
on cattle? Well, cover them with
grease and sulphur. But how? Well,
first pick off and burn the big, fat,
fecund female ticks. These are about
to lay from 1900 to 5000 eggs each.
And then with a sponge, or swab, or
by hand, rub over all the hundreds of
lesser ticks a goodly quantity of any
oily grease-hog's lard, cotton seed
oil, or crude petroleum. And because
crude petroleum is rich in sulphur
and is by far the cheapest, and
about the best of all. But why mix
sulphur about half a pound to a gal.
Ion Of grease-with any oily grease?
Because sulphur is q natural foe to
insect life. Why grease? Attention
nowl Everything that lives must have
vital air or die. Now ticks-and in.
deed all insects-have no lungs. How
then do they breathe? And the an
swer of the wise microscope is that
their skins are filled with air pores, or
air holes. And the ticks breathe
through their skins. This is the only
way they ever can or do breathe.
Now, envelope tick with a film of any
oily grease and you will fill up, close
up, plug up all these air pores, and the
tick must and will at once die. There
is no doubt or question abont this.
Every tick so reached and covered will
be killed. If not reached and covered
they will not. Grease and sulphur
will kill all the ticks to which it is
applied. But how kill the ticks on
infected pastures? Here, close atten-
tion must be givenl Ticks never lay
their eggs on the body of the COW
brute. No, never. But when the big
female is ready to lay her eggs she
crawls out on the long hair of the COW
or steer and falls off on the ground and
then proceeds to lay on the grass or
herbage. from 1900 to 5000 eggs. And
each of these eggs will, in 13 to 40
days, according to the weather, hatch
out into young, active, hungry seed
tick. And as very many such fecund
females will fall off the same animal at
different points and places, the sure
result will be that in few weeks the
entire pasture will be infested by
swarms and colonies of these young
seed ticks, then when COW or steer
comes browsing along, or perehance
hes down, these hungry ticks will
crawl up the legs Of the victim and
then, where the skin is thinnest, be.
tween the fanks, along the belly and
between the fore legs, it will bite and
bore, suck blood, and breed, and bite
into the animals veins the virus germs
of the deadly Texas Fever. Here is
the very genesis of tick reproduction
And now, because all things which live
must have food or die, just rigidly
keep cattle off infected pastures for O
few months and all those swarms and
colonies of seed ticks will and must
starve to death! And the whole plan
and philosophy of tick eradication it
simply this: Kill the ticks on live cat
tie by the free use Of grease and sui
phur and kill them on the pastures by
starvation. 1t can be done. Soon OIL
late it must be done. And now as tc
the law.
THE LAW
The people have taken alarm. The
states and congress have taken the