The Huttig news., 1911-09-23
Texas Fever Tick.

they are, so well Watered and sell i ing oheaply as they do. are an ideal cattle grazing country. A portion is so employed at good profit now. in the northern section of the state where the fever tick has been extern hated and 10 of the eoun- ties have been placed above the Federal Quarantine Line. This has been by these counties organ izing a tick eradication district. levying tax of five cents per head on thelr cattle, thus creating a fund, by the use of which, through government experts, they have ex- terminated the Texas tick and gotten themselves placed north of the dead line into the tiek-fle ee district.
 We must drive the tick out of Arkansas and get the whole state north of the quarantine line. Sec tions of the state that have no tick, if south of the line. are harmed to no little degree. When cattle are shipped to market from south of the line, even though they never knew the bite of the tick. they are counted as tick cattle and sell from one-half to one cent less per pound on that account, an average of about S4 % per head If we were to ship to St. Louis or Chicago the zoo, 900 head of cattle now in Ar kansas below the quarantine line. we would realize $2,OOO.0OO.OO less for them than if they had been. shipped from any point north of the line. That $2,oOo.ooo.OO would kill every tick in Arkansas and create some consternation among the ehiggers. Ten per cent of that amont would put us above the line.
 You don't have to have the tick really and in fact. to be harmed by it. You only have 10 be south Of the line You can't ssll your cat tie while they are fat on the cheap feed of summer and fall grasses, they can only be shipped in late winter when they are all poor when quarantine is raised. Lets move up above the line where ev- cry day IS sale day and we will have buyers for the calf as we'll as the big beef steer.
 The distress increases when we consider the territory where the tick actually is found. We not only find restricted markets, but a weak, stunted. knotty. blood im- poverished stock that must remain so. The Texas tick comes out early in the spring. mounts on top blade of grass and sticks on the COW that touches him. Within thirty to sixty days it falls off full grown, dies and out of it's carcass walks 1000 to 2OOO young cattle killers to take position at grass blades top and attach themselves the first COW passing. It is esti- mated that ticks will draw about 200 pounds of blood from one ami nal in a season. Tick infested countries are noted for small cattle ftake Mexico). Cattle do well to live at all where preyed upon by ticks. Many are killed by them even where native to it, and to al low them to cattle that are not use to them is certain death. Where the tick does not kill the cattle in it's territory, it so reduces them to make them susceptible to all other diseases. The United States de partment of agriculture computes that Arkansas lost eight per cent of it's cattle last year by diseases of all kinds, while Minnesota, Wis consin, Kansas and other northern states. even with their long severe winters, and terrible blizzards, only lost two per cent. Tick cuts the milk of COWS twenty five per cent on same feed. You cannot im- prove your cattle stock The tick will kill the better breeds if you in- troduoe them. The 5looded stock