The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-10
VALUE OF THE NO-FENCE LAW

path of these little insects they will
eventually starve to death and will
thus become eradicated from the field
or pasture.
However, it is remarkable the period
which this little insect can live sim
ply clinging to the bush, grass, or
whatever it has crawled upon to wait
for it's host-neat cattle, cattle of the
on kind or bovine. The cattle tick will
attach itself to mules and sometimes
| to the horse, but 4 it seldom remains
There to maturity. Thus we do not
fear the results, in this State at least
iof getting much infection from these
animals. The secret is this: if no
cattle are allowed to pasture, or go
where ticks were deposited by tick
infested cattle last season, then, in a
years time. the pastures will be en-
tirely free from the cattle tick. The
| tick will deposit it's eggs after devel-
oping on the COW and dropping to the
ground; its life history is then ended;
thus it dies. The eggs are Matched,
the young ticks live on the pasture.
but do not go but a few feet from
whore they are Matched, as they can
not travel on the ground very we'll:
| then, If 40 cattle come their way after
IA few months (siN or eight, they die;
| NbIS are forever ueSlTOypu, cTdQlCdIeu
from that field
! Therefore, If the mo fence law" pre-
vents cattle from roaming at largo and
from using the public roads, then,
Iif counties which were exposed to all
cattle which ran at large last year, will
| tins year adopt this good law I'M
Iderstand that the supervisors with the
consent Of the people can do this-it
can plainly be seen how 1t will free
farms and finally counties of the cattle
ticks.
Why do you want to get rid of the
cattle tick when we have had it for
100 years CT, maybe 1000? is ques-
| ton so often aske6 the writer. His
REPLY Is always the same: The most i'm
Ipovtant reason is because the cattle
| tick is the cause of the cattle auaran-
| tine line, which is a sore subject to
hundreds of cattle owners who live be-
low the line. You are simply worry.
ldortakc to state that the cattle tick
does not cause any disease among cat
tile, et, | know it does, You would
illnd it out, too, If you were to give II
one-hnf the study l do. 1t may not
give your cattle any disease, because
you lave cattle which arc naturally
immune from the tick. But still thf
1 TICK, then, rot only is very dxtrimehta
I to your cattle, because It Is taking the
very lifeblood of the animal to live
on. but ii also keeps your place below
| the quarantine liue, and thus You can
not ship your cattle to any place en-
| cept to quarantine pens. Your catt ~
tally subjected to the
DISCRIMINATION in price of several dol
lars per mead, owing to the fact tina
/ quarantine cattle are so restricted Il!
ito the movement, etc, by law, tina
no one can afford to pay true value
/ for the same.
Bring cattle from the Sonthwes
down into the tick-infested territory
\ but place them in a field on which NJ
cattle have been for u year, and thel
allow no ticks to be carried into th'
pasture and see that these cattle d.
mot get out. They will do we'll II Sol
4 give them grass or feed enough, Place
some of these cattle from the South
west IN the field ON which you know
ticks to pc, and You will find how
A quickly they will die. Take some 0
lyour ticky cattle and cross the lin,
lin violation OF the law, and see how
\ quickly ynn Will ,be fined anywhes'
4 from 5000 500 for every head OF cat
'ltle yhlch you SO move, n you ar