Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1917-05-04

Dut lleI6 dll no Auilh III lNhSs
The farm woman mashed one on the
floor "See, it's full Of bIoodp
"But where does blood come from2"
'Why, the COW makes it out of the
feed she eats"
"And where does milk come from?"
"Why, out of the feed, too, Of
course"
"Then the ticks are getting lot of
that feedY
"Yes, ma'am."
Feed that ought to be going to
make blood and milk and butter fat?
The ticks, then, are drawing mllk-mak-
Ing material from that cow"
"Yes, ma'am. And ] guess about
three quarts day.
"John," the woman called to her
husband, come here ana meet a
stranger"
John Farmer ran over to where his
wife was milking. He looked at Pros
perity rather doubtfully and shaded
his eyes from the unaccustomed CLEAN
Of her golden garments.
whats your business? We don't
cotton to your kind hereabouts."
II have come to kill our worst en-
emy-yours and NINE" She held out
tick. Look at your cattle"
John looked.
"How much do those steers weigh"
"'Bout seven hundred and fifty
pounds"
How old are theyT"
"Two-year-olds."
"Why, they ought to weigh at least
one thousand pounds"
'They ought to weigh ton, ma'am,
judging from my feed bills. Them
steers eat their blamed heads off and
don't gain none to speak of"
you don't try to store feed in
chicken coop, do your"
"Of course not. 'Twould run out
of the cracks like water out of sieve.
That's foolishness."
ANY leaks in the hides Of those cat
tleY'
"What do you mean?"
"How about those ticks? The steer
turns that food into blood and that
blood is leaking out through thou
sands of ticks. Those ticks are TAX
ing two hundred pounds of blood
year from those steers, and it takes
a lot of corn and pasture and feed
cake to make that much blood. That
blood is making so many pounds Of
ticks and SO many pounds less Of
meat"
Guess you're right"
Prosperity left the tlcky farm and
walked back to town. She went to the
local bank and asked for the presi-
dent.
Good morning, madam he said.
"We've heard a lot about your visits
elsewhere, but we haven't seen much
of you In this county lately Hope
you'll settle among US permanently"
"That, sir, depends on yourselves. /
simply can't stay where there are cat
tie ticks. Ticks are my natural enc
mics. They kill the cattle with tick
fever. They won't let me raise good
cattle and establish the thriving
diaries which are SO essential to my
well-being.
"And the ticks do more. BY keep
ing cattle off of farms, they make it
impossible to get manure needed to
keep the soil rich and prosperous. BY
interfering with cattle, they prevent
farm help from working profitably oil
winter"
Eyes, madam, I've noticed that our
accounts with farmers in ticky dis
tricts begin to go down just after the
cash crop money is banked. First,
they try to pay off the years debts
for food bought on time at the local
stores. And then we are kept busy
discounting notes and financing the
long credit the local stores have to
grant"
"Of course the tick hurts business,
That's natural, if you only figure how
many pounds of meat and how many
quarts Of milk that ought to be sold
for cash and bring hard money to
stores and banks are now wasted in
feeding soft, Gravity ticks
Madam, do stay with u.s."
Eyes, If you'll drive out the tick.
We can't exist together"
IF we can drive out the tick, we
will. We'd rather have Prosperity
than ticks"
"You can. Dip those ugly witches
in an arsenical dipping vat. The peo-
pie Of the South already have ex-
terminated ticks In three hundred and
twelve thousand square miles. Wher-
ever tick has been dipped out, better
cattle have come in, milk and butter
yields have increased, and beef animals
have become heavier and worth more
money. Cattle stop dying Of tick fe-
yer. The cattle and not the tick are
getting the feed. Why, with the tick
dipped out, figures show that cattle on
the average are worth seven dollars
and half more per head. 1t costs
little to get rid Of the tick and take
his profit.
"Write today to the United States
Department of Agriculture. Washing
ton, D. @. They will help you"
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