The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1908-08-07
TO RID MISSISSIPPI
OF CATTLE TICKS.
Uncle sam to hsge a Campaign
Against These Pests.


10 the Greenwood Common xealtk-
Because all honest minded men AWAY
wish "a Euow the exact truth. whcthe.
they relish 10 or not. and because tn,
United States government, through tn,
Bureau pf Animal Industry, il aboct Il
take, indeed is now taking, A hand ii
earnest ia tho eradication of the CATTLE
tick in Mississippi, ! am led 70 write
this letter to TIN" Common wealth for
the Information Of lts readers, As 70
what Uncle Sam IS now doing, and pro
poses to do. 10 i' mo- wonder that the
government j. now greatly stirred up.
an1 very #aeh interested, since 1t has
been made manifest ty q most careful
examination that the raragcs of the
cattle ticks h'E" become a national
calamity, and tha' fh" loss and useless
waste oooaelonoi solely by them to the
extreme Southern state, is not less
F5 ~ wv
Hundred Million Dollars, and that Mis-
slsslppts share 30 thl, Immense loss
amounts every year into the millions
Now, when any great pcstijcnce or evil
becomes utterly t]ntolcrablo, and must
be abated and stamped out, q. any cost,
two things mus, be done at the outset.
viz: the real and true cause must be
seen aud determined. aud next a sure,
safe, and effective remedy must be
found, and rfgidIy appIiqd,
Well, the Bureau Of Animal Industry
has exercised this wisdom. and accord.
inplv after an erergotic and Mains.
taking Investigation the following CON
illusions have been found to he abso.
lutofv true. First. that the real. and
true. and only cause of the ~splepctic or
Texas fever In domestic cattle Il a
microscopic germ which Is only carried
and transmitted bv that peculIar tick
known To science as margoronrs
appulabe4 or the Tny,s fever tick
And. second. that a sure and most If.
remedy has been found, which
can be stated in three main words. viz.
Grease and ~auarautipr Yes grease.
any oily grease. such as bacon grease.
cotton aeea oil. rancid huttcr or crude
]potrolepm oeIv an its nm oilv gre,se
will surely kin. in a very ,cw minutes.
all and every tick ON thc bodies r; Hve
cattle which IL ia made TO reach and
cover. Bvt II IL c~ort,ip that all ticks
which fine rrnaso dons nat roacb and
cover II will NOT In tbn laast ,gsct
The ticks can NOT bp take, IN dcatb
They must be creased IN death The
must he arplied Now vbep
All the ticks on live cattle have heen
creased to death. the hattie viii he
we'll pigb vgor
But now the Quarantine. and whv2r
Well. the ticks have been spread and
scattered from the Rio Grande to the
Potomac by the careless shipment of
ickv cattle, and by letting snch cattle
uu at large. Now. Quarantine 10 the
,xact opnosite Of all this and nv , r;pid
.hutting up of all tickv cattle. hv rigidlv
preventing them from straying abroad
nv further spread NJ the copta pInp
an he absolutely nrcventcd Rut evor
lore, by absolutely kecping all cattle
infected fields and pastpr,s for a faw
aonths such grounds can he egectuauv
I~isinfected. and cleared of ticks
yhvl Because. and close attention
light here, no female tick ever laws har
ggs either in the hair or ON the hodv !
COW or steer. No. never. But when {
he female tick, swollen with ecgs, from |
500 to 5000. il readv IN Inv tbom she I
Y instinct. crawIs out on the animals I
,ng hair. and falls of on the ground !
nd there. on grass or hcrb,ge, proceeds I
A, lay those eggs. And these eggs will B
fifteen 10 thirty DAYS. usually. all q
,tch out into very small. hut very 9
,tivc. and very hungry seed ticks I
nd. az many such ticks will 40 fall of O
I'd lay their eggs, cry soon that field u
:. pasture will nave swarms and colo- a
.cs Of young and hungry seed ticks. ALI {
mary zoe tb. hr,a,l ,f,,,lo ult,h T. q
.cir natural food. And when a now a
w. or steer romcs browsipg ,i,,g or a
reliance lies down. tbcn these hungry d
seed ticks will crawl upop il Inv Il
ores. and ret down n tbo skip and k
ere bite. and b,rn and sucL hl,oa i
ID moult and breed, and meantime will o
n