STOi:V OF CATTLE- FEVER TICK 



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DO YOU LIVE IN A TICKY COUNTY? 



Perhaps you live in a place that is still in quarantine. If you do, 

 there are fever ticks on the cattle in the country around your home. 



The next time you see some cattle in the country or at the stock 

 pens <;o close to them and see whether you can find fever ticks on 

 them. Notice how these ticks keep tiieir heads buried in the hide 

 so that they can suck blood from the animal and poison it with 

 fever. 



Perhaps the people in your quarantined county also are gjetting 

 tired of ticks. Perhaps they, too. are be<rinnin«j; to build vats and 

 are <;ettin<^ ready to drive their cattle through the medicine. 



Ask your father al)out this. If he says that your county is not 

 frettin<r rid of ticks, tlien ask him to read this little story carefully. 

 Tell him it means dollars and cents to him whether he owns any 

 cattle or not. 



BOOKS ABOUT TICKS FOR GROWN-UPS 



If youi' parents want to know all about the tick and how to <ret 

 rid of it, tell I hem to write a jjostal card to the United States Dejiait- 

 ment of A<j:ricultuie. Washin^^ton, I). (".. or to your State livestock 

 officials. Without char<;e, they will send little books for «;rown 

 people tellin<r about the fever ticks and how to get rid of them in 

 your county. 



DIP THAT TICK 



Fever ticks are costing the South more tlian 

 forty million dollars a year in dead ealtle, wasti'd 

 milk and meat, and lower prices for ticky beef 

 and tick-marked hides. Tiic tick is the worst 

 cattle pest in the South. Help free the Soutii 

 from this pest. Help the South become the great 

 cattle-raising section its climate, soil, and pas- 

 ture tntille it to he. 



