The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1922-07-15
HOW LONG IS DIPPING
CATTLE NECESSARY?
"HOW LONG DO WE HAVE TO
DIP" is THE QUESTION.
1t Is Owing to the Cooperation
Given BY All Con-
cerned.

Progress in the eradication of the
cattle tick depends on the manner in
which stock owners cooperate in the
dipping of their cattle. d. w. H.
Cooper, district Inspector, lands out
the following paper on the subject,
addressed "To All Persons Owning
Cattle or Stock Subject to Dipping"
and issued by DR.. j. Stotchlk, veteri-
marian, Inspector Bureau OF Animal
Industry, supervising tick eradica-
ton in Bastrop county, Texas:
GLOW Long Do We Have To Dip"
One year or several years, depend
ing upon how you dip.
Every one naturally would want to
get done with the dipping in the
shortest time possible, SO let us have
clear understanding of what it
takes to do it.
Dipping all of the cattle-all of
them-at the regular specified inter-
walls of IA days will clean the county
in one year. This means 100 per
cent dipping. In proportion as the
dipping is less than 100 per cent it
will take longer to clean the county.
And here is the reason for it:
The fever tick spends part of it's
life on the ground and part on cattle
1t lays it's eggs on the ground-from
5000 to 5,000-and these eggs hatch
out on the ground into so-called seed
ticks. Now this seed tick will eat
only one kind of food, namely: Red
fresh blood of cattle, horses. mules
or asses, and nothing else-net even
the blood of jack rabbits or any other
wild animal-such is it's nature ire
member we are talking only Of the
fever tick-not any other kind of
tick). This means that the seed tiek
will not grow until it gets o. cattle,
horses. mules or asses and ns to
suck their blood. If it is A,cky
enough to get hold of. org .ase
animals it will live in the d for
long time without food, 1t will
not grow or multiply.
After the seed tick gets on one OF
the above mentioned animals and be-
gins to suck the blood it begins to
grow. and after it has grown to ma
turity it falls to the ground, lays it's
5000 to 5000 eggs and dies.
The object in dipping is to kill the
tick before it falls to the ground and
goes to raising his big family, and it
takes dipping every fourteen days to
catch the tick before he falls to the
ground.
Naturally, if you dip only part of
your cattle, the part that you failed
to dip will drop off enough ticks tc
keep your pasture infected all the
time. This is the reason why 1t takes
regular dipping of all the cattle as
we'll as horses, mules and asses rang
irg out in the pasture-regnlar dip
ping of all Of them to get rid of ticks
in one year,
It paws to make the effort to dip all
YOUR cattle and have the whole COM
munitv cooperate to that end, unless
YOU would rather keep on dipping Tor
years.
In the event the county is ready for
release at the end of the year with
the exception of few lndlVldual
nremises whose owners failed to clean
up, those premises will remain under
quarantine and will have to continue
dipping every fourteen days all next
wear or until the clean up.
It is well, therefore, to look aheao
now and by dipping all of your cattle
regularly to insure yourself against
the possibility of having to contend
with an individual quarantine on
YOUR premises and the necessity OF
dipping an extra year, besides being
a source of danger to the whole
and county.
AS an additional protection against
the possibility of scattering ticks
from premises to premises and from |
county to county the quarantine reg
ulations provide that all movements |
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