THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



Some Tick Facts 



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^ single Femak T1d( maif laf «t mmrf as 5,000 eggi. The progeny of one ahgle 

 'f— lo/f Tick "nay, in the coune of team month), come to number 6,750,000,000 indloidualt. 



CATTLE TieK 



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I. U gorged tides are crushed, it will be found that ilnb 

 intestines are completely filled with a dark, thick mam 

 of blood which has been sucked from the animal host : 

 this blood should have gone to the formation of milk, 

 flesh, and the laying on of fat 



X A Female Tick, when fully gorged with blood, may 

 weigh as much as 30 times more than before it began 

 to engorge. 



3. A beast, badly infested with tides, weighed 730 lbs. It 



was freed from ticks by dipping, and two months 

 later — its food and general treatment remaining the 

 same as before dipping — it had gained 285 lbs. — a daily 

 average gain of 4| lbs. 



4. No less than 28 lbs. of Ticks were taken from a horse 



which died from anaemia resulting from gross tick 

 infestation. 



J. A large number of tick bites over a limited area of skin 

 may be followed by infection with pus-producing 

 organisms, giving rise to small abscesses which may 

 develop into ulcers. The discharge from such sores — 

 or even the mere oozing of blood serum through the 

 tick punctures — keeps the hair moist and matted: in 

 such areas fly eggs are laid and hatched, resulting in 

 infestation with destructive maggots, causing ulcers 

 and other complications that will require medical 

 treatment. 



4^ In the United States, the death, rate amongst cattle in the 

 Tick areas is three tinifs liigher than in the areas free 

 from ticks. 



7. 



Ticks only stop on an animal for three weeks ; dipping 

 or spraying must therefore be done not less often than 

 every three weeks in order to catch ticks before they 

 drop off. 



The perforations of the skin caused by tick bites 

 facilitate the entrance of various kinds of disease germs. 



9. Ticks prevent cattle maturing normally, and this 



necessitates Beef Cattle being kept until they are 3 or 

 more years old. Cost of two years extra feed and care, 

 and interest oh capital tied up, involves a heavy 

 additional outlay, the necessity for which can be 

 entirely avoided by the adoption of thorough tick 

 destruction measures. 



10. Tlje total annual loss sustained in the United Stiites 



as a result of ticks is enormous. §100,000,000 

 Of 20,000,000) is the amount named by the United States 

 Department of Agriculture. 



11. If ticks are not kept under control, young animals may 



never become fully developed, but remain thin, weak, 

 and stunted, and thus the more easily succumb to 

 diseases, as a result of lowered vitality. 



12. Newly-hatched ticks can live as long as eight moi;*J's 



without food, even during the colder season. 



13. Hides from animals that have been infested with ti is 



are graded as No. 4 quality : the s.ime hides if free 

 from tick marks would grade as No. 2 quality. The 

 difference in price between these two qualities is three 

 cents a pound. Therefore, on an average hide, wei^'h- 

 ing 42 lbs. the loss due to ticks wouUl be more than f 1.26. 



14. It has been calculated that a single beast may, as a result 



of Tick infestation, lose as much as .iOO lbs. of blood in 

 a season. 



15. In a carefully conducted test it was found that tick- 



infested cows lost an average of 9\ lbs. in weight, 

 while the cows free from ticks gained during the same 

 period an average of 44 lbs,, both lots of cows hf-'ng 

 fed exactly alike. 



16. The presence of ticks on cattle is a serious drain or. (he 



animals' systems, one consequence of which is that t^<c 

 amount of milk produced by cows is diminished. In one 

 experiment, cows badly infested with ticks produced 

 42% less milk than cows kept free from ticks. 



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