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THE WORLD 'IS MEAT FUTURE 



In the United Slates, where Texas fever, or redwater, is the 

 only tiek-borne cattle disease that troubles the stock farmer, the 

 starvation method is said to have been practised with success. 



The Soiling jNIethod. — This is based upon the following data : — 

 The time required for the female tick to lay eggs and the latter 

 to hatch — i.e., the time spent on the ground — is rarely less than 

 three weeks, and the time required by the seed ticks to mature on 

 the cattle is from twenty to forty-five days. 



When the tick-infested cattle are to be cleaned it is recom- 

 mended that they be kept in a small tick-free enclosure for three 

 weeks, when many of the ticks will have fallen off. They should 

 then be removed to another similar enclosure for another three 

 weeks. After this, they should be examined, and, if found free 

 from ticks, they may be put on non-infested pasture at once. If, 

 however, any ticks are observed, the cattle should be placed in a 

 third enclosure for another two weeks. 



By this time the youngest ticks that were on the cattle at the 

 start will have matured and dropped off, and, as the animals are 



