THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



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Do Cattle Ticks Affect 

 Hide Values? 



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CATTLE new 



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The above question was addressed to a number of Chicago hide and leather dealers, and their replies printed below 

 will doubtless convince the most sceptical that the cattle tick works very definite injury to hides in the Southern tick* 

 infested areas of the United States, and the same thing applies, of course, wherever ticks are found. 



This injury is far greater than the average cattle owner realizes— they bite the skin, and the injury this effects shows up very plainly, and causes a break 

 in the grain of the finished leather. This occasions a serious depreciation in values, chiefly because tick-injured hides cannot be used for high-class work. 

 Their market value is thus considerably reduced, and lower prices rule. 



The only remedy is to eradicate the tick, and, fortunately, this is by no means difficult. 



Dipping or spraying with a reliable arsenical Cattle Dip will destroy all the ticks and so overcome this injury. 



TICKS CAUSE LOSS OF $1,26 PER HIDE 



Extract from Farmers* Bulletin, No. 569, on " Tick Fever," issued by the United States Department of Agriculture. 



"The presence of the tick among the cattle of the South not only lessens the value of the cattle on the hoof, but causes the grading of hides that have 

 been infested wdth ticks as No. 4 quality. The same hide, if free from tick marks, would grade No. 2. The difference in price between these two grades 

 of hides is 3 cents a pound. As the hide of a southern steer weighs about 42 pounds, the presence of the tick in the hide causes a loss in the hide alone of 

 more than ^$1.26 a hide. 



"It has been shown that the cost of eradication is only about 50 cents a head, so that if Cattle owners make a joint systematic campaign to eradicate 

 the tick, the increase in value of the hide alone would pay for the cost of tick eradication, and leave a net profit of about 70 cents a hide." 



Ticks lire the cause of zery .\eavy lois in a number of different ways, but tlte 



Tick Damage 



Ticks Reduce Value 33% 



" Cattle Ticks have a very deteriorating effect upon hides and ailtskins, 

 particularly calfskins. We do not buy many Southern hides or skins on 

 account of the ticks, but when we do get some here wc are obliged to sell 

 them for No. 3 stock at about one-third less price tlian good Northern 

 I stock free from ticks. This does not apply so much to Iieavy hides tor sole 

 i leather purpose but for all light hides and cah'.skin>, it renders them 

 altogether useless, for all kinds of leather." TOHX MILLER & CO. 



I Price 2c. to 2^c. Lower 



1 "In regard to cattle ticks, they damage the hide? so badly that very 



\ few of them can be sold in this market ; and wlien they are, the price is 

 ■ from 2 to 2i cents, lower than price of our Xorlhern and Western hides. 



This reduction is largely due to tick damage, though partly to poor take- 

 I off. I handle very few Southern lades on account of ticks." 

 1 J. M. BOND. 



• Value Reduced 2c. per lb. 



'■The Snuthern hide, which is generally a tickj' hide, is sold in this 



market at ahout 2c. a pound less than similar hides free of ticks." 



BOLLES & ROGERS. 



Ticky Hides Worth 10=^ Lest 



"Wc buy large quantities of hides, but as we require a very good 

 quality, it being used for fancy leathers, we are unable to use Southern 

 hides, as tliey contain so many c.^ttle-ticks. These ticks show an abrasion 

 upon the grain of the hide. In other words, we cannot make smooth 

 ^rain leather out ot hides willi licks in them and we regard Southern 

 i hides with such imperfections worth fully lo per cent, less than from 

 districts where there are no ticks." j^ ELKAN tt Co 



Damages 2c. to 2^c. per lb. 



■ .4s to the difference in value between the ticky hide and a non-ticky 

 ., hide, I wish to say that we figure a ticky hide to be, at least, 2 to 2lc. less 

 in value. 



In general a Southern hide has not the value of a Xorlhern, Eastern 



. or Western hide, e\'en if they are not ticky they are entirely of a different 



nature, too thin and spready." GUS DREYFIISS 



leiUrs -which fothu' ^how how serious is the leakage of profit arising from 

 lo Hides. 



Reduce Value Ic. per lb. 



■ Re the eiiect rf cattle ticks upon the price of Southern hides. They 

 damage the grain oi the hide to a very large extent, and reduce their value 

 at least ic. per pound." jg^^^^, ^^j-jl & gONS. 



Worth Jc. to Ic. Less per lb. 



" From our e.xpei lence we have found that ticky bides are quite inferior 

 to our good quality stock, originating from points outside of the South, 

 and tanners, without exception, are very averse to take hides of this descrip- 

 tion, and in buying them reduce prices a fuU half to a cent a pound." 



ADLER & OBEXDORF, Inc. 

 Tick Damage I to 2c. per lb. 



"Ticky hides from the Southern States are certainly an inferior arlicte 

 to the quality that is produced in the North. The diflrerence in prices varies 

 according to the season and weights, but the damage done by the tick 

 probably amounts to ic to 2C. per pound, or from 50c. to S1-06 per hide. 

 This pertains chiefly to the hides suitable for upper leather. On the 

 heavier branded hides for sole leather, the damage is less consequential." 



CHARLES FRIEND & Co., I.nc 

 Damages Ic or More per lb. 



" Cattle ticks .ire a very serious defect on hides, and the hides we buy 

 from Southern points, where the cattle run ticky, do not bring within ^ to 

 IC a pound of Northern hides, for certain grades of heavier leathers, 

 while on upper leather that comes out of calf kip and light cow hides, 

 there is even a larger spread in price." LAPHAM BROS. & CO. 



Ticky Hides make Poor Leather 



" Ticky hides. ■■:-: Southern hides, dii not sell for as much money as the 

 Northern hides. These ticky hides, viien unhaired, are all spotted and 

 make a very poor leather and most tenners refuse to buy any Southern 

 hides at any price." EMERY & Co. 



Ticks Make Black Spots on Leather 



"Ticks on cattle make black spots on llie leather and are cause of 

 considerable loss in value, I should think fully 3c. to 4c. per lb.; on an 

 average ic. to 2c per lb. would be a fair difference, I should say, on the 

 prices paid for hides." FRANCES M. POTTER. 



COOPER'S CATTLE TICK DIP 

 Ha» nceivtd the official approval of th* following Coantrittt 



Vaion of South Africa, Northern Rbo4e»la. Brazil. Basutolaad. 



NyaMlagd, SwaziUad, Sootbem Rho4eila, .Madagascar, 



tritish East Africa, Oerman East Africa, Perfugoeae Eaat Africa, 



Fonujuese West Africa, Egypt, Argentine Repablic, Qseenelaad. 



I'nited Statei of America. New South Wales, 



Northern Territory ot Aostralia. 



WEST INDIAN AGENTSt 



«T. K1TT5 : 5. L. Horslord & Co. ANTIQUA : Bennett B ija i • Cfc 



JA.MAICA: D. Henderson & Co., Kingrsten. 



(ikENABA: Thomson, Hankey & Co. 



BARBAr)(l5; Barbados Co-operative Cotton Co.. Ltd. 



H\HA.MA5: W, N. Twynam, Nassau. 



TRINIDAD: T. Geddes Grant, Port of Spain. 



BRITISH OUIANA: iandbach. Parker & Co. 



ST. VINCENT- Corea & Co., Kingstown. NEVI5: *. D. Maloo*. 



Danish west INDIES: A. .--chmleKelow. St. Croix. 



M0NT5ERK*T u LlevellynWnll. DU.MINICA: Hon. H. A. PramptMk 



.*" r I t CIA; lljrnard Sons & Co., Castries. 



Manufacturers : WILLIAM COOPER & NEPHEWS, Berkhamsted, England. 



BRANCHES : T»r»»lo, Chicijo, Sjdnf, M.l»»«ra^ Ascklta^ Bn«(.» Airtt, Kuot. Win. Cutt* Ar.oi., Eait Undon, OdcMk. 



