The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-09-18

d With Ticks.
while a heavy infestation will cut
down the cows milk as much as AZ
per cent Study the sums worked out
on the basis of 20 cows, which, If the
COWS were not infested with ticks.
would normally produce about eight
quarts a day.
Lightly Infested With Ticks.
Alilk flow down IS F. c.
Daily yield Value at &c
90 tick-free cows ..... 100 s 500
~ HShtIy-ucked cows. l3l 655
Loss per day .......... 20 l5
Loss for 200 days
~ mixing ..............5.S00 go 90
|9sI OF dipping herd and freeing II
front per year from dipping. $3.50 J
Heavily Infested by Ticks.
(Milk flow down AZ p. c.
Daily yield Value at sc
20 tick-free cows .....'.l6O 500
" heavily licked cows SO as
Loss per day .... CT AS
Loss for 200 days
- mixing .............l 400 60 90
cost OF dipping herd and freeing 1t
from ticks 1000
'FRONT.' per year from dipping. $4,000
The tick. when sucking the blood
also suffers greatly through lack of
ability to import pure-bred stock.
About so per cent of the cattle
brought in from the North, according
TO the department estimate, sue
cumb to Texas fever.
Ticks Take Toll From Hides.
The tick. when sucking the blood
OF cattle, lessons the value of the
hide, reducing it from a No. 2 quality
TO that known as No. 4. The differ
ence in price between these two
grades of hide is three cents a pound.
AS the hide of southern steers weigh
about AZ pounds. the presence of the
TICK In the hide causes a loss IN the
hide alone of more than $1.26 a hide.
IL mas been shown that the cost of |
TICK eradication is less than fifty cents
head, so that the increased value of |
lhe hlde OF the animals would pay the
cost of eliminating the tick, and leave
the farmer profit of about seventy
SIX cents. when considering the hide
alone.
These heavy annual losses of cattle
raisers in the infected district can be
effaced. and at a cost small
N proportion to the return; for. with
enthusiastic stockmen. satisfactory
state legislation, sufficient money and
trained corps of inspectors, the cat
lie tick may be exterminated. and ey.
cry dollar expended in this work will
'e returned MANIFOLD during each
year. The United States
department of agriculture bears part
II the cost of Kidding the country of
icks by sending, without expense to
he county where the work is tc be
its field men to supervise
he building Of watts and the dipping
II cattle. The total cost of dipping
attic at most is so cents a head. and
n some counties it has been estimat-
d to cost the county and it's citizens
ot over 20 cents a head.
The department of agriculture has
a number of bulletins on
inerent aspects Of the tick problem.
'hich will be sent on application
.mong these are Farmers Bulletins
70. 693. Eradication of the Cattle
lex Necessary for Profitable Dairy
lg; No. 500, Texas or Tick Fever"
%. $50. Beef Production in the
outh;" No. 1876. Methods of Exter.
linating the Texas Fever Tick" spe-
al Circular, Effects of Tick.Eradi.
alton Upon the Cattle Industry of the
outh;" and circular on Progress
nd Results of Cattle-Tick Eradica-
o."
The accompanying picture shows
lie emaciated condition of a steer in.
sted with ticks. This animal was
pped in an arsenical bath on August
!. to kill the ticks. At that time he
eighed 100 pounds. He was contin.
ID on the same feed that he had re-
lived before dipping. and on October
weighed Lis pounds. a gain of 3S5
funds.
Dipping tick-infected cattle in the a
senical bath is being done in many
rts of the South. The given illus I,
alton shows one of the forms of dip
ng watts used Five cents worth OF
senic per head is all that is re-
fred. The vat costs from $50 TO
90. Once the vat is built. the cat.
can be dipped as often as needed. "
lie only costs are driving the cattle ..
the vat and handling them in the =
tn. q