Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-06-09
NOTICE To MOVE OUT.

Uncle Sam has given notice 10 the fever
tick that he must change his habitat. The
bureau of animal industry has put on its
service clothes and i going after the per-
picious insect in dead earnest. Every
owner of cattle or of other stock that are
infested with ticks i urged to join the
campaign. Ii is only by persistent and
united effort hat the insect that robs the
stockmen. the %dairymen, and that through
them robs the people eventually will be en-
tirely eradicated.
4 big undertaking, Is Be Sure. The sta
tisticians of the department have figured
that one tick will produce a Thousand ticks
as its direct progeny. These will produce
a thousand times "A thousand. Thus in
two generations, one tick will have been the
progenifor OF over a million ticks. BY the
same process of calculation. the third gen
Grafton will reach the staggering proper
lions of a million times one thousand, or
one billion ticks. just think of that. What
chance l. there for the country to escape
being completely overrun with these enor-
monsly prolific destroyers of cattle un-
less we manage To kill the first ticke
But, when We realize the damage which
nous loss which they canse by sucking the
blood of our cattle, we shall be willing To
do our best to exterminate the pest.
Let Us remember this, then: The tick
l. sucking $50, 000.000 a year from the
substance of the South. The animal bu-
reau has established this by the most thor
ough experimentation. The blood which j.
drawn by ticks from the Southern beef and
dairy animals represents that much wealth
last to the people of the South and their
heirs for every year that the tick keeps
up IL operations unmoleSted.
Ticks on a COW will reduce her milk pro-
duction from ] II quarts 10 over three
quarts per day. Ticks will eat POO pounds
of blood from a 200 pound steer in a
year. The net losses from these depreda-
lions over the entire South amount. a.
stated, Ia $685. 600 per year.
There i a way 10 stop this enormous
drain upon the beet and dairy business Of
the South-the dipping vat. The cost Of
a dipping vat for the use of all the far
mers of a community j. comparatively
small. After the vat j. built, five cents
per head will pay for arsenic enough for
the required number of clippings To rid the
entire county Of ticks. The construction
l. simple. Government agents will assist
farmers wherever asked in the work If
building and starting the dipping appar-
atus in operation.
Here, then, l. the way. The old saving.
.'where there's a will there j. 4 way must
be reversed in this ease, 50 a. 10 read
.'where there j. a way there j. 4 WILL"
The farmers must have the will 10 H.. the
way.
The veterinary Inspector for the
Brownsville district. DIR. y. f.. Dutro. who
has his Office N the federal building in
Brownsville, will he glad to furnish all the
tick talk necessary To convince anyone of
the necessity for taking active steps TO
eradicate ticks from the country. Ask the
doctor for "A copy of Uncle Sans Tick
Primers or other literature telling how
10 conquer the tick. He will furnish all
you van without charge. The doctor j.
with the farmer and the st0ckman in the
fight against the tick.