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then at least limited to portions of Florida. That 

 state, however, is getting a move on itself, and if the 

 fencing of open range there is rapid enough, it can 

 clean up easier than Texas. Some wonderful work 

 has been done in Florida by progressive individuals, 

 and the state has passed laws in which there has been 

 some confusion in interpretation. 



The United States Department of Agriculture in 

 Washington, D. C, has issued a number of compre- 

 hensive pamphlets on ticks and tick eradication. 

 From these publications a few extracts, condensed 

 and unquoted, and some observations and data from 

 Chief Dr. John R. Mohler of the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry, and from Geo. M. Rommel, chief of the 

 Division of Animal Husbandry, may prove valuable 

 to those interested. 



Texas fever was introduced into the United States 

 with importations by Spaniards during the early 

 colonization of Mexico and southern United States. 

 It seems to have been first discovered as a menace 

 by Dr. J. Pease, towards the close of the i8th cen- 

 tury in Lancaster Co., Pa., where a severe outbreak 

 of the disease occurred following the importation of 

 some cattle from North Carolina. Pease ascribed the 

 cause directly to the cattle, without locating the tick 

 as the cause. Experience soon showed the invariable 

 result of the importation of southern cattle in great 

 mortality among northern cattle. Years followed 

 before any tangible cause could be located. Smith of 



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