THE AGEICULTURAL NEWS 



Some Tick Facts 



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A single Female Tick ^oy I")) <is mam as 5,000 eggs. The progeny of one single 

 Female Tick may, in the course of seven months, come to number 6,750,000,000 indioiduals. 



CATTVE T!CK 



FEMALE 



1. If gorged ticks are crushed, il will be found that tkeir 



intestines are completely filled With a dark, thick mass 

 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 more than before it began 

 to engorge. 



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



was freed from ticks by dipjJing, and two months 

 later — its food and general treatment remaining the 

 same as before dipping — it had gained 2S5 lbs.— a daily 

 average gain of 4f lbs. 



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



which died from aniemia resulting from gross tick 

 infestation. ^ 



5. 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, caiisin,g ulcers 

 and other complications that will require medical 

 treatment. 



(,. 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 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. 



8. The perforations of the skin caused by tick bites 



facilitate tlie entrance of various kinds of disease germs. 



9. Ticks prevent ca"'.e 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 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. 



10. The total annual loss sustained in the I'nited Stales 



as a result of ticks is enormous. •■< 100.000,000 

 (£20,000,000) is the amount named by the I'nited States 

 Department of .\griculture. 



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 months 



without food, even during the colder season. 



13. Hides from animals that have been infested with ticks 



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 

 cents a pound. Therefore, on an average hide, weigh- 

 ing 42 lbs. the loss due to ticks would be more than $1.26. 



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



of , Tick infestation, lose as much as 500 lbs. of blood in 

 a season. 



15. hi 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 being 

 fed exactly alike. 



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



animals' systems, one consequence of which is that the 

 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. 



COOPER'S CATTLE TICK DIP 

 Has received the official approval of the following Countries : 

 Union of South Africa, Norliiern Rhodesia, Brazil, Basuloland, 



Nyasaland, Swaziland, Southern Rhodesia. Madagascar, 



British East .Africa, (lerman East Africa, Portuguese East Africa, 



Portuguese West Africa. Egypt, Argentine Republic, Queensland, 



United States of America, New South Wales, 



Northern Territory of Australia. 



WEST INDIAN AGENTS : 



ST. KITTS : 5. I.. Hor.^if.inl & Co. ANTIGLI.A : Bennett, Bryson & Co. 



JAMAICA: I). Menclirson & Co., Kineston. 



ak'l:^AI)A; Thom.son. Hankey & Co. 



BARBAIKI.S: liurlindo.s Co-operative Cotton Co., Ltd. 



liAllAMA.S: W. N. Twynam. Nas.iau. 



Tk'IMDAI): f. (ieddes lirant. Port of Spain. 



URIIISH miANA: Sandbach. Parker & Co. 



ST. VINChNT: Corea & Co.. KinRstown. NKVIS: 5. D. Malone. 



DAM.SM WRST INDIK.S: Carl V. La Beet, St. Thom&5. 



mONTSERRAT: W. Llewellyn Wall. OO.MINICA: Hon. H. A. Framoton. 



ST. l.l'CIA: tiarnard Son.s & Co.. Castries. 



Manufacturers : WILLIAM COOPER & NEPHEWS, Berkhamsted, England. 



BRANCHES : Toronto, Chicago, Sydney, Melbourne, AucMand, Buenos Aires, Monte Video, Punta Arenas, East London, OdeuL 



