The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-09-17

head when fattened before being put
on the market. Good profits were
made on raising and feeding them"
Comparative Costs.
Mr.. Ward has prepared some COM
parative costs for raising calves and
young stock in various sections of the
country, based on actual results.
The average cost per 100
raising calf to weening time was:
1910 in corn belt; s7.22 in Pensylvan-
ia; 1888 in North Alabama; and
s4.57 in West Alabama. Both Ala
bama tests were made with tick-free
stock.
The average cost per 100 pounds to
raise the calf to IL to Is months of
age: SLID in corn belt; 1923 lin
Pennsylvania; SAL in North Alaba-
ma; and $4.69 in West Alabama.
The charges included feed, labor,
equipment, taxes, risk, depreciation,
veterinarian fees, bull service, and
six per cent interest of investment.
Under tick-free conditions in Flor
ida the calves and yearlings can be
raised cheaper than in Alabama and
the packing plants which will be in
operation at Jacksonville and other
Florida cities this winter will afford
a nearby market for good quality
beef.
Florida has an advantage of water
and shade. The climate Is equable
with no destructive billiards. Pastur-
age in general is plentiful and where
lacking can easily be supplied by for
age crops suitable to the different
soils.
Are you going to continue rails
ing cattle ticks and low priced can
ner beef, or are you going to eradi-
cate the ticks and raise some high
priced beef? Why not eradicate the
ticks in this community and raise
some good beef.
The cattle tick is the greatest
drawback to success in stock raising
in Florida. Men who allow ticks to
prey upon their cattle are not only
acting inhumanely, but to their finan-
cial loss, as the feeding of nutritious
foods-meat and milk-to ticks is
most improbable. Experiment has
demonstrated this repeatedly. There
is no doubt about it. This is what
DR.. Cooper Curtiee, one of the United
States department of Agricultural
scientists, who has spent years in
the study of the tick, says about it:
"The host of the tick is the COW
or steer. 1t cannot remain on the
skin of horses or mules. They sweat
and shed it off. But horned stock
do not perspire. After feeding upon
cow or steer the fully engorged
tick falls to the ground, where il
can deposit its eggs. In warm wealth
er the eggs hatch and for each healthy
egg there is one small seed tick. Now
when you consider that one poor af.
/ ficted COW may have thousands OF
ticks on her body at time, each one
|, capable of laying 5000 eggs, it must
be conceded that the species increase
with great rapidity. One generation
of thousand will, in about three
weeks, increase to five millions, and
if there are cows they will climb
aboard from the spears of grass anC
after getting a comfortable place
where the hide is not too thick, para.
site like, they will commence feed
ing on the~cow's precious blood that
is manufactured from grass, or corn
or silage, all of which represents
money to every owner. Approx.
mately every six weeks a new gen.
GRAFTON of ticks is produced"
Tennessee is one state where the
tick has been eradicated by united
effort. That states slogan was, at
is more of a disgrace than a pity t.
own tick infected cattle" When il
finished the work of wiping out The
pest it adopted the motto: "Teeto.
tally Tickless Tennessee" and cattle
raising is now on a profitable anc
substantial basis.
From experiments made by the u
S. bureau of animal industry II
, Florida, it was demonstrated that
| the milk flow from tick infested COW,
was AZ per cent less than from cow.
| free from ticks. The tick infested
cow is always thin in flesh. Tn,
average value of Florida cattle is les'
than one-third the value of cattle
north of the Ohio river.
The time is here when more anC
better cattle must be raised in Flor
ida and the south. The boil weevi
has invaded the cotton fields of tn.
state and the yield is being reduced
The remedy to stop the damage o.
the boil weevil is not known. Tn,
remedy to stop the citrus canker Il
fire-the destruction of the tree. W.
know how to destroy the cattle tick
1t is a visible thing. 1t has beer
eradicated elsewhere with great prof
! to owners and comfort tn animals