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THE CATTLE TICK CAIi 'JiE', BiXsVvfe«i'-Vi/-'*- 15 



We need more pastures, more green cover crops, more clover, etch, 

 cow peas, velvet beans, and alfalfa. 



We need more feed pens filled with cattle to consume the feeds we 

 raise. 



We need more patriotism and work and less politics to get rid of 

 the cattle tick. 



The cattle tick is costing us up to one hundred million dollars 

 annuallj'. 



If all the cattle on a farm, be it large or small, are regularly dipped 

 once every two weeks for a period of a few months, in a properly pre- 

 pared arsenical solution, all of the ticks will be eradicated. 



The area of Mississippi is 46,340 square miles — an area of 143,000 

 siiuare miles has been freed of ticks since 1905. 



Same steer free of ticks — October 12, 1911. Weight, 1,015 pounds 



Mothers! Do not feed your children milk from tick-infested cows; 

 it is unwholesome, unsanitary, and unsafe. 



Hon. E. F. Noel, Governor of Mississippi, says: 



"Tick eradication work has done much for Mississippi. I^one 

 who tried it intelligently, so far as I have heard, were otherwise 

 than pleased and benefited. I sincerely hope the work will be 

 continued and advanced in this state until we are in at least free 

 territory for the whole of Mississippi. There was never greater need 

 of improvement and extension of cattle raising than in the South at 

 this time. It promotes crop rotation, diversified farming and utiliza- 

 tion of valuable fertilizers." 



