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its host ; hides in some secluded place ; lays or deposits 

 from 1,500 to 3,000 eggs, and then dies. The incubation 

 period, or time required for the eggs to hatch, will vary 

 from 14 to 45 days; the length of time depends upon 

 varying conditions of temperature and moisture. Warm 

 weather and a little moisture shortens the period of in- 

 cubation ; cool weather or heavy rains prevent or retard 

 hatching of the tick's eggs and destroy many young ticks. 

 The small ticks fresh from the eggs are six-legged, and 

 very lively, collecting in bunches, not unlike in appear- 

 ance a mass of chicken mites. They are called ''seed 

 ticks" because they look like a small seed or because 

 they are said to be the seed of the tick. They crawl or 

 climb upon grass, weeds or any object near the place of 

 hatching. Cattle passing through the grass or weeds 

 will become infested with "seed ticks," which soon at- 

 tach themselves by their mouth parts to the skin of 

 their host. In 12 to 15 days the "seed tick" molts 

 ("sheds its skin") and then possesses eight legs (4 pair) 

 instead of six. A second molting occurs in from four to 

 six days after the first, and following this second molt- 

 ing, the female tick very soon becomes larger, than the 

 male; the male possesses pointed shoulders, and never 

 gets much larger after the second molting. The female 

 engorges itself with blood from its host, and thus de- 

 velops into the large, plump, fat tick that can be so 

 easily observed upon infested cattle, and when mature 

 drops to the ground and dies laying eggs. Thus the 

 round of life is completed. 



COULD ALABAMA OR THE ENTIRE SOUTH EXTERMINATE 



THIS SPECIES OF TICKS? 



According to some authorities tick extermination is 

 possible. One farm, one beat, one county can be made 

 tick-free. Why not an entire State? If every cattle 



