TEXAS FEVER. 



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Ticks may crawl from the edge of one pasture into an adjoining 

 pasture, or engorged females may drop from the heads of animals 

 reaching through a dividing fence. These difficulties are best over- 

 come by consti-ucting a double fence with an intervening space of 



FIELD N0.2B. 

 OCT. 12. MOVE THE HERD. 

 TO FIELD N0.3. 



OATSrOiLOWED BY 



FOR/1 ce. 



fHEM 



FIELD NO. 2 /I. 

 SEPT22.M0VETHE 

 HEFtD TO FIELD 

 NO 2 B. 



FIELD NO. 3. 

 CORN. 



COlVPE/fS. 



NO I/. I. MOVE THE HERD TO 

 FIELD NO. I A 



FIELD NO. 4-. 

 COTTON. 

 HYE OR CRIMSON 



CLOVE n 



HOUSE 



P/ISrURE: BERMUO/1 ,VET,CH,flND BUR CLOVER 



FIELD NO.I B. 

 SETFT 2. MOVE THE HERD TO FIELD 

 NO. 2/1. KEEP OUT ALL RNIM/iLS 

 UNTIL JULY I, WHEN THIS FIELD 

 WILL BE FREE OFTICt^iS AND THE 

 TEMPOnmY DOUBLE FENCE MfiV BE 

 REMO\yEO. 



FIELD NO. I /?. 

 JUNE 15. MOVE THE HERD TO FIELD 

 NO.IB. KEEP OUT ^LLflNIMffLS 

 FROM THISD/)TE UNTIL NOV.I.I^HEN 

 THI^ FIELD UJILL BE FHEE OFTWn^. 



Fn:. 1. — I'lan for freeini^ cattlt> and pasturos from ticks by rotation, r<■(lvlirin^' four and 



one-lialf months. 



15 feet. Such a fence, if the land does not slope greatly, also greatly 

 reduces the danger of ticks being washed by rain from one pasture to 

 the other. 



Plan requiring four and one-half months. — The plan of rotation 

 represented in figure 1 requires four and a half months for its com- 



