The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1915-01-28

great does the danger loom undo
present economic conditions OF the
disease spreading throughout the
west or of even being carried across
the MISSISSIPPI river into the eastern
states
The United States government
through the Public Health Services
has. attempted to solve this question
by locating all the known areas OF
infection in the Rocky Mountain re-
| gion. Records were collected dur
ing the present year of 40 eases
of Rocky Mountain spotted fever,
with 20 deaths, occurring in seven
| states. Two other states are known
to have the disease.
From this it is seen that the dis
ease is a little less fatal than Uphold
fever. and the total number OF cases
as compared with typhoid fever. IS
small indeed. The disease however
1 is a serious matter In certain 1ocali-
| ties and there is valley in south
! western Montana. the development oe
which has been greatly retarded b.
| the presence Of Rocky Mountain spot
! ted fever in virulent form.
According to the Public Health re-
ports, the Public Health Service has
been at work there for the past four
| years destroying the wood ticks and
their rodent hosts in an efIort Is
eradicate the disease from the val
ley. Recent experiments indicate
that sheep grazing is the most feast
Bile method of accomplishing this END
| in this particular locality
The so-ealIed sheep tick .sAIelepha@
| gus ov1nus,H is the only insect which
| lives comfortably in the long wool
/ of our western sheep; other insects
and ticks are generally killed when
they attempt to crawl through the
| heavy. greasy wool.
A small band Of sheep turned
loose in the barnyard win quickly rio
Nit. Of heas.
1 The plan which viii be followed
| in destroying the ticks by sheep graz
ing is to start the sheep IN at the
/ foot Of the mountains where the tick
infestat1on is greatest and their small
animal hosts are most NUMEROUS
Craze the sheep in the foothills for E
week and then before the unkilled
engorged females are ready to drop
off and lay their eggs, shift the sheep
higher up into the mountains
4 Experiments have shown that sheep
while grazing will pick up practical
n ly all Of the tickets, SO to 80 per cenE
of which will die in the sleeps WOOL
The few remaining, engorgad females
4 will be carried back into the noun
tains. and dropping off about ten
days from the time OF attachment
4 will lay their eggs there. The larva-e
Il when hatcheds will find very small
animals to serve as hosts, and ths
majority of them will thus die.
The prevailing idea of scfentifie
forming in the rural districts Is t6
lean over the back yard fence and
ask your neighbor how his Granda
father did it.
President Wilson seems to look
pretty wide awake in spite OF the
strain of walking nights with fhe
baby.
George Perkins urges the poor to
buy potatoes in 10 bushel lots. but
he failed to make it quite clear that
he was willing to lend them the
money.
J A scale of naendacity: Positive.
J lies: comparative. political sta
} I-tistios: superIattve, official war bt1l7
letins
. If the students at the argiculturaI
colleges. don't study hard, they may
!. have to go back and spend their lives
farming.
Many people are trying to restore
prosperity by urging someone else to
invest their money.