The Cattle Tick This Pest Can Be Destroyed (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Cattle Tick: This Pest Can Be Destroyed <p>There are various kinds of species of ticks to be found on cattle in the Southern States, but the one that chiefly concerns us here is that commonly called the cattle or Texas-fever tick. It is the one most frequently found on cattle and is much more abundant than the other species. When the losses occasioned by this parasite are once thoroughly understood by farmers and stockmen there will be little need for arguments in favor of tick eradication. Some of the losses are not directly noticeable and consequently make little impres sion, while other losses properly chargeable to the tick are frequently attributed to other causes. <p>It is hardly necessary to emphasize the important fact that the tick is something more than a simple parasite drawing blood from his host, it being the carrier of a dangerous micro-organism or germ, which it transmits to the blood of cattle, thus causing a disease known by many names, among which are Texas fever, tick fever, splenetic fever, and murrian. Without the tick there can be no Texas fever, and it is by preventing the Spread of the tick beyond its natural bounds that the fever has been prevented from waging destruction among Northern-cattle, which are especially susceptible to the disease. In order to restrict the distribution of the tick the national and state government maintain a quarantine line extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, marking the boundary between the states or portions of states harboring this pest and those that do not. Cattle of the quarantined area can not be driven across this line, and may be shipped only in accordance with the regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture to prevent the spread of splenetic fever of cattle. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.