The Green Forest tribune., 1915-09-17

while a heavy infestation will cut down the cows milk as much as 42 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 day.
 Lightly Infested With Ticks.
 (N1lk flow down IS P. O.
 Daily yield Value at Sc
 in quarts per quart: 20 tick-free cows ...... 160 5 500 20 lightly-ticked cows... 131 6.55 Loss per day - e9 L45 Loss, for 200 days
 milking 800 29000 Cost es of dipping herd and freeing it ,o oo Profit per year from dipping. ..........$ .$2S0.o0
 Heavily Infested by Ticks.
 (AIilk flow down 42 P. C.,
 Daily yield Value at 5c
 in quarts. per quart. 20 tick cows .l60 5 500 20 heavily -ticked cows 8 S.35 Loss per day .... 67 S35 Loss for 200 days
 Cost of dipping herd and freeing it
 rom tlcks lo.o Profit per year from dipping. .$66O.0O The tick, when sucking the blood also suffers greatly through lack of ability to import pure-bred stock. About 60 per cent of the cattle brought in from the North, according to the departments estimate. sue cumb to Texas fever
 Ticks Take Toll From Hides
 The tick. when sucking the blood of cattle, lessens the value of the hide, reducing it from No. 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 $126 a hide. It has been shown that the cost of tick eradication is less than fifty cents head, so that the increased value of the hide 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 entirely effaced, and at cost small in proportion to the return; for, with enthusiastic stockmen, satisfactory state legislation, sufficient money and trained corps of inspectors. the cat | tie tick may be eXterminated, and ev- cry dollar expended in this work will be returned manyfold during each succeeding year. The United States department of agriculture bears part of the cost of ridding the country of ticks by sending, without expense to the county where the work is tc be conducted, it's field men to supervise the building of vats and the dipping of cattle. The total cost of dipping cattle at most is 50 cents head, and in some counties it has been estimat- ed to cost the county and it's citizens not over 20 cents head.
 The department of agriculture has published number of bulletins on different aspects of the tick problem, which will be sent on application. Among these are Farmers Bulletins No. 693 Eradication of the Cattle Tick Necessary for Profitable Dairy ing" No. 569, Texas or Tick Fever" No. 5S0. Beef Production in the South" No. 496, Methods of Exter- minating the Texas Fever Tick" spe- cial Circular, Effects of Tick -Eradi- cation Upon the Cattle Industry of the South;" and circular on Progress and Results of Cattle-Tick Eradica- tion."
 The accompanying picture shows the emaciated condition of steer in- fested with ticks. This animal was dipped in an arsenical bath on August 12, to kill the ticks. At that time he weighed 730 pounds. He was contin- ued on the same feed that he had re- ceived before dipping, and on October 12 weighed 1,115 pounds, gain of 385 pounds.
 Dipping tick-infected cattle in the arsenical bath is being done in many parts of the South. The given illus tration shows one of the forms of dip ping vats used Five cents worth of arsenic per head Is all that is re- quired. The vat costs from $50 to $100. Once the vat is built. the cat tie can be dipped as often as needed The only costs are driving the cattle to the vat and handling them in the