114 Hemorrhagic Septicemia 



The presence of ticks on the body is good evidence of Texas Fever. 



Death may take place in thtee days or the animal may live as long as 

 three weeks. 



TREATMENT 



Remove all the ticks from the cattle by use of a curry comb and 

 hand picking, separating all animals not having ticks from the tick in- 

 fected ones. These cattle should be ke*pt a short distance apart for 7 or 

 8 days, after which the ones that have never developed any ticks may be 

 turned in to a tick free pasture. In picking or cu'^rying the ticks, the 

 belly, base of udder and tail should be given special attention. Pick- 

 ing must be done every other day till the first of November if dattle are 

 in tick pastures. 



Good results have been claimed by the use of 5 drams (5 teaspoon- 

 fuls) of quinine in 1/2 pint of water twice daily for each 1,000 pounds 

 live weight. But generally speaking drug treatment of effected animals 

 has not been very satisfactory. 



In southern states the U. S. government has cleaned what was once 

 tick infected territory until now it is free of ticks. The method U;sed is 

 described in bulletin No. 78 of U. S. Department of Agriculti'^e. It 

 goes into detail of how to rid pastures of ticks under various conditions. 



HEMORRHAGIC SEPTICEMIA 



(Pasteuellosis) {Corn Stalk Disease) 



FORMERLY PROBABLY KNOWN AS 



{Contagious Pneumonia) or {Lung Fever) 



Hemorrhagic Septicemia first received attention by the Amerii^an 

 veterinarians about 1900. Before many years elapse there will be out- 

 breaks in practically every community .of the corn belt if the malady 

 Spreads as rapidly in the next few yeajrs as it has spread since 1900. It 

 is to be hoped the farmer will be more familiar with this disease than he 

 was with contagious abortion and thereby avoid serious loss. 



Hemorrhagic Septicemia effects caflle, hogs, horses, chickens and 

 sheep, but it is >-are to find more- than one class of farm animals effected 

 on the same farm at the same time. That is, horses apparqfntly do not 

 take the disease readily from cattle. I have known of hogs eating the 

 carcass of cattle that died of the disease without ill results where ihe 

 farmer did not know the seriousness of the disease. However, I am 

 not trying to establish that such is desirable practice. It should not be 



