The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-12-15
THE STATE CAN BE MADE EN-
TtRELY TICk-fREE IN ONE
SEASON.
EVERY ONE MUST CO. 0PERATE
Louisiana Is the Only State Using
the Twenty-one Day Dipping
Periods.


pie, of the Department of Veterinary
Science, Louisiana State University:
Why is il necessary to dip cattIs
every ~ days during the season to
get rid of the ticks?
Answer. During the warm season
of the year, the average time requir-
ed by the lick to develop, from the
small larval. or seed tick. after at
taching to cattle, until the large fe-
male tick natures and drops to the
ground to lay her egg, is about %
days. But while % days may be the
average. many ticks mature earlier
than that time. Consequently it has
been found that the 21-day dipping
periods do not catch the earlisr-ma-
turing ticks. which drop OF and keep
on making more ticks, thereby delay.
ing the final results. On the other
hand, by dipping cattle every ii days.
all of the ticks that become attached
to them in the intervals are killed.
because none of them mature and
drop Off before IA days.
How has this information been OBJ.
tanned?
Answer. II has been observed by
those engaged in the work of tick
eradication that. towards the end OF
the season, under the 21-day method,
there are always number of cattle,
or herds. still remaining tick-infested.
While with 14-day dipping there may
be none, or only very few. with ticks
on them.
Then the dipping periods are based
upon the time required for the ticks
to develop on the cattle and fall Off
Answer. Precisely so. The adop-
ton OF the 14-day periods is to de-
stroy all of the ticks that have be-
come attached to the cattle in the in
tervals between clippings, without any
OF them having dropped off.
How long, relatively, will it take to
clean parish, or section, of ticks un-
der the 14-day and 2f-day dipping Pc
RODS?
Answer. With the full co-opera.
tion of everyone interested, the ticks
may be cleaned up in one season un..
der the 14-day periods; while under
the 21-day periods it may take two
or three or more seasons, as mas been
the case in number of parishes.
Do ticks have any effect on milk
production?
Answer. Federal experts have test.
ed this question, and they report that
cattle which have been freed of ticks
have given an increased milk pro-
duction OF from Is to AZ per cent, de-
pending on how grossly they had pre-
viously been infested. II we should
strike an average of 25 per cent. IL
would mean that the dairyman who
continued to feed ticks on his cows
was throwing away an equivalent of
one bucketfu1 of milk out of every
four which his cows would produce
under tick-freedom.
What effect do the ticks have. ~
any. on the development Of beet
cattle?
Answer. They prevent develop
ment, because a great deal OF the |
blood which the feed makes, and that
should be used to nourish the animal.
IS appropriated by the ticks, and the |
benefit of the feed is, therefore. lost |
10 the animal
Are all the other states dipping
their cattle every IA days?
Answer. Yes. Some of them /
adopted the 14-day periods at the
beginning of the work, and others
hat had commenced with the 81 DAYS
have since abandoned the longer in.
.eryals for the 14-day method. as the
results have been found so much
more satisfactory.
1t is believed, then, that Il il nos.
'ible to eradicate the cattle ticks
rom parish, or even the state, If al
he cattle are dipped in the standard
'reenieaf solution every IA days for
me season?
Answer. Yes. 1t is being done in
'ther states, and parts of this state
I the present time. However. to he
BILE to accomplish it satisfactorily n
I'LL require cooperation on the mart
everyone concerned and interested
D the work.
When once the state is tjek.s,..
III there be any danger Of re.Infes.
alton?
Answer. None. The federal gov.
rnment and the state will see thar
gid quarantine is maintained against
ne Introduction of any tick-infested
attic. That Is provided for now IN
CT NO. Is OF the General Assembly
1916, and by federal regulation.
What Is a condition Of ticksreedom
xpeefed to mean to the state?
Answer. 1t will mean that Louis.
ma win be in a position to pro.
'ess agriculturally. and otherwise.
the more progressive states have