THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



Some Tick Facts 



A stngh Female Tkk mag lof « man^ ai 5,000 tgg*. The progen\) of one single 

 Fmnale Tick may, in the count of teaen montha, come to number 6,750,000,000 individuah. 



•Am.e TiMt 



L If gorgei) tida are crushed, it will be found that tkeir 

 intestines are completely filled with a dark, thick maaa 

 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 



2. A Female Tick, when fully gorged with blood, may- 

 weigh as much as 30 times mote thjin beiote it began 

 to engorge. 



1 A beast, badly infested with ticks, 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 t&S lbs.— a daily 

 average gain of 4J lbs. 



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



which died from auaemia resulting from gross tick 

 infestation 



5. A large numbnr of tick bites nv • ' ;i limited area of skin 



may be folloucil by infection with pus-pioducing 

 organisms, givmg rise to small absce.sses which may 

 develop into ulcers. The discharge from such sores— 

 or even the nwre oozing of blood serum through the 

 tick punctures— keeps tlie hair moist and matted: in 

 such areas fly eggs arc laid and hatched, resulting in 

 infestation with destructive maggots, causing ulcers 

 and other complications tliat will require medical 

 treatment. 



fc. In the United States, the death rate amongst cattle in the 

 Tick areas is three times higher than in the areas free 

 from ticks. 



7. Ticks only stop on an animakfor three weeks; dipping 

 or spraying must therefore be done not less ofion than 

 every llirre weeks in order to catch ticks before they 

 drop off. 



ft. The pcrforat.ons of the skin caused by tick bites 

 facilitate the entrance of various kinds of disease germs. 



9. Ticks prevent caw's maturing normally, and this 

 necessitates Beef Cattle being kept until they are 3 or 

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

 and interest on capital tied up, involves a heavy 

 additional outlay, the necessity for which can be 

 entirely avoided by the adoption of thorough tick 

 destruction measures. 



IOl The total annual loss sustained in the United States 

 as a result of ticks is enormous. s 100,00i),000 

 0^20,000,000) is the amount named by the United States 

 Department of Agriculture. 



11. If ticks are not kept under control, v'oung 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 Wv^ as long as eight monilis 



without food, even during the colder season. 



13. Hides from animals that have been infested with licks 



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

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

 difference in price between these two qualities is three 

 ceiu^ a j)ound. Therefore, on an aierage hide, weigh 

 ingH'2 lbs. the loss due to ticks would be more than .?1.26 



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



of Tick infestation, lose as much as 500 lbs. of blood ii' 

 a season. 



15- In a carefully 'onducted test it was found th.il tnk- 

 infested rows lost an average of 9} lbs. In Nveighl. 

 while the cows free from ticks gained during the same 

 period an average of 44 lbs., both lots of cows beinj; 

 fed exactly alike. 



16. The presence of ticks on cattle is .n serious drain on the 

 .Mlin; il-' ^> >lri:,>,iiiie Ci>i.:.niaeiice <f which is that ttir 

 amouiitof milk produced by cows is diminished. In one 

 experiment, cows badly infested with ticks prodNcei', 

 42';o less nn'lk than cows kept free from tick.s. 



COOPER'S CATTLE TICK DIP 

 Hmt rmcmtvtd the official approval of the following Countri€»: 



TnioD of South Africa. Northern Rhodesia. Braz:]. busutoland. 



NjftAataml. Swaziland. Southern Rhodesia. I4«daf!A<(r4lr. 



British East Afri'.a. German Host Africa. PortucuiiM-. East Africa. 



*>rtujfueie West Africa. Egypt. Argentine Republic. Quctuisland. 



United States of America. New South WhIiw. 



Nortbero Tr*rritorv of Australia 



Manufacturers : WILLIAM COOPER & 



WEST INDIAN AGENTS ; 



ANTiaUA: Bennett, Bryson A Co., 5t. JohOA 



BAHAMA5: H. T. Brice. Nassau, N.P. 



BARBADOS: Rarbado.* Co-operative Cotton Co.. BrIdrctawB. 



BRITISH aulANA: T. aeddc.i Orant, Ltd. 



DOMINICA; Hon. H. A. PraniDton. UKBNADA: Thomson, Hankcy A G» 



aUAI>l;LOUI>l: : The .'Station Afronomlquc de la Ouadeloupa, 



l>alnt-\-Pltri'. .lAMAlCA: D. Henderson A Co.. KIncstOB, 



MAKTINIULII:: L. Duplan & Co., Fort-4e-Fran«. 



MONT.SERRAT: W. Llewellyn Wall. NEVIS: 5. D. Molaaa. 



ST. KITT5: 5. L. Horslord & Co. ST. LUCIA: Barnard i»m» * C*., 



Castries. ST. VINCENT: Corea dt Co., Klnrstawa, 



TRINIDAD & TOBAOO: T. Qeddes Qrant. LM. ' 



AMERICAN VIKflIN ISLANDS: O. H. SchmlCBVlaw. St. Ctala, 



MAMCHtS TaraaU. aifsfg. ^linmy. Ma{kam< Aadilna. Banioc 



NEPHEWS, Berkhamsted, England. 



Moatr ViJa*. Pnb Afaww, 



