AOnUlLTl'RAL AI'PICOIMIIATIOX BILL, lUi:4. 117 



KXTKNHInN WHUK. 



liiist yciir with a \uitr vluAvrn force of mo votcriiiarians. there were 

 luhl 1,074 iiM'etiii^s with mm )itteii(hiM«(« «if r>7.4<)S; i.'MH (h-iiiMnstni- 

 tioiis ill thi' use of th«' prex I'litive seniiii treiittiieiit were made, with 

 an atteixhince of '2(».|*JS. At these (lern<»iistiaiti«»n.s H.s,M4<» h<»^'s were 

 tn'iiteW, 47.1."17 invest i«;at ions of swine disease were rna«h'. 1.4(U in- 

 ft'cted premises were «piarantin<'d, and rv.» premises ch'aned and ilis- 

 infected. 1 here were 171.;'>'J."» inteiviews hehl coneeriiin;: hnj.'-cli(»h'rn 

 pivvention and control. In efforts to assist practi«'in<r veterinarians 

 :ind improve tlieir methods ami techni«pie, 8t»,7H7 ho<rs were treated, 

 and. in section^ where veterinary serx iie was not avaihihh*. 'JKJ lay- 

 nn-n were trained to api)ly the serum tieutment. 



\\'itli reference to your earlier <pierv, this decrease in the appro- 

 priation for ijo<r ('liolera, to my mind, is not ^oin<r to he nearly so 

 harmful to the work as the decrease in the tick-eradication fund will 

 he to that work. I think we can ;rct alon^r far hetter than in the lat- 

 ter case, where tho eradication methods have Iwen |)erfected in such 

 a way that vou can clean the whole county or the whole State, for 

 with Texas fever we have an al)solute and uniform method of <r«'ttin<; 

 rid of ticks. I'niike with ho;j:-cholera ^'erm>, we have an ahsolute 

 knowled«rc of the life history of the tick and its vulnerahle points, hy 

 which we can clean up county after county and State after State, 

 thus <rettin;i: rid of this \('rv heavy hurden on the live-stock industry 

 of those counties and States. So there is no compari.son, in my mind. 

 hetween the effect of a decrease in hop-cholera funds and a decrea.se in 

 tick-eradication money on the live-stoi-k industry, not only of tlie 

 South hut the North. Kast. and West. We are takin<r feeder cattle 

 from the South constantly and there are «roin<r to he all k'inds of un- 

 restricted movements of cattle between the S'orth and South when 

 the (piarantine line has been shoved into the Gulf. 



A\'e had a case uj) in Pennsylvania the other day where ticks were 

 brought in with southern cattle, the ticks beinj; so small when they 

 left the South that you would have to have a ma<znifvinp jrlass to 

 see them, but when the animals jxot up Xorth for slauLditer tho 

 insj^ei tor found the ticks. I)urin<r the time these cattle were on 

 the railroad car the ticks had iirown l)i<r enou<;h to be seen on reach- 

 ing Pennsylvania. So that there will always be dan<rer of spreailin«^ 

 ticks from the .Sotith to the Xorth so lon<j as there is a sinjrle tick 

 vemainin*; in that section. 



Ml'. BrcHANAX. You can feel them, all rijrht. 



Doctor Mohlj:r. Yes; that is true. 



Mr. BrciiAXAX. How many little ticks can come from the blood 

 of one tick f 



Doctor MoHLEU. Anvwhere from 3.()00 to 4,000 ejrirs are laid at 

 one tnne by one female throufrh her oviduct, as with poultry. Thest* 

 e«r,irs later hatch and produce the minute seed ticks, which subse- 

 «|uently U'come attacheil to the bodies of cattle. 



FOR EKAnK'ATTON OF DOI'RINF: AM0N(; horsf^s. 



Mr. .VNnKRs<^N. We will now take up the item on pa<re Gl). "For 

 all necessary expenses for the investigation, treatment, and eradica- 

 tion of dourine." 



Mr. PrcnANAN. I would like to in([uire as to what that is? 



