The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1922-06-22
TO ALL PERSONS OWNING
CATTLE OR STOCK
SUBJECT TO DIPPING
Bv DIR. Stotchik, Veterinarian In
spectOr Bureau of Animal In
dustry, SURPRISING tick eradl-
cation i'm BastrOp County Tex.
HOW LONG DO WE HAVE TO

HOW LONG DO WE HAVE ~
DIP?
One year or several years, de-
pending upon how you dip.
Every one naturally would
want to get done with the DIP
ping in the shortest time possible,
so let us have clear understand
ing of what il takes to do 1T.
Dipping all of the cattle.oall
of them-at the regular speclfled
intervals of ID days will clean
the county in one year. rms
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 1t:
The fever tick spends part OF
it's life on the ground and part
G cattle. 1t lays its eggs on the
oround-from 5000 to 5000
and these eggs hatch out on the
or0und into so-called seed ticks.
Now this seed tick will eat only
one kind of food, namely: Keo
fresh blood of cattle, horses, mules
or asses and nothing else.not
even the blood Of the jack rabbits
or any other wild animal-such
is its nature remember we are
talking only of the fever tlck-noC
any other kind of tick,) rms
means that the seed tick Will not
grow until it gets on, cattle,
horses, mules or asses and begins
to suck their blood. If it is not
lucky enough to get hold of one
of those animals it will live In
the pastur, for long time with
out food, but it will not grow or
multiply.
After the seed tick gets on one
of the aforementioned ANIMALS
and begins to suck the blood IL
begins to grow and after 1T has
grown to maturity it falls to the
ground, lays its 5000 to 5,O0o
eggs and dies.
The object in dipping is to Kill
the tick before it falls to the
ground and goes to raising ms
big family and it takes dipping
every IA days to catch the TlcK
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 to keep the pasture IN
fected all the time. This is the
reason why it takes REGULAR dip
ping of all the cattle as we'll as
horses, mules and asses ranglr9
out in the pasture-regular dip
ping of all of them to get rid OF
ticks in one year.
1t pays to make the effort to
dip all your cattle and have the
whole community cooperate to
that end, unless you would rather
keen on dipping for years.
In the event the county IS ready
for release at the end of the year
with the exception of few IN
dividual premises whose owners
failed to clean un, those premises
will remain under quarantine and
will have to continue dipping
every IA days all next year or
until he cleans up. :,
ut is we'll, therefore, to look
ahead now md by dipping all OF
your cattle regularly to insure
yourself against the possibility
of having to contend with an IN
diVidual quarantine on your
premises and the necessity of dip
ping an extra year, besides being
a source of danger to the whole
neighborhood and county.
AS an additional protection
against the possibility of scatter
in ticks from premises to preml-
ses and from county to county the
quarantine regulations provide
that all movements of cattle
should be done under a permit
issued by an authorized inspector.
You will observe that it 10 to your
best interests not to attempt to
move cattle without permit.
Every time you move cattle with
out a permit you lay yourself
liable to court action and are set
ting back the work of tick eradl-
cation.
Help your inspector keep track
of all cattle moving across the
county line. Where pastures eX-
tend from one county into the
the other special arrangements
will be made for mutual protect
ion.
You will find the work of Grad
icating the fever tick of enor-
NOUS benefit to you. but it's sue
cess depends upon your whole
hearted and active cooperation.
Read this circular carefully
and if there is any part of it you
do not understand ask you'd in
spector to explain it.
APPROVED BY TICK ERADI-
CATION DIVISION, BUREAU
OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY, u. S.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUL-