STORY OF CATTLE-FEVER TICK 



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broii<rlit in from tick-free places. Fine animals are so valuable that 

 a farmer can not all'ord to keep them if ticks suck out their blood and 

 keep them from beinti; healthy. 



This is why we see so many scrawny cattle where there are ticks. 

 In ticky country we do not see herds of Hno, fat. <rrade, or purebred 

 stock. But where the tick has been killed in the South you will .^-ee 

 fatter and better cattle on almost every farm. 



GETTING RID OF TICKS HELPS A COUNTY 



You can see that it is a very (rood thin<; for cattle owners to ^ret 

 rid of ticks. Without ticks they have more milk and meat to sell. 

 Their cattle do not die of fever. Tiiey can raise more cattle. They 

 can raise better kinds of cattle. They «ret ftill retuiiis from their 

 feed. Tliev make more money. 



riic kind of rjiltlf flic fever tiek lets live 



Oettiii<r rid of fever ticks is a <:ood tirm«r also for all the l)usiness 

 men of the county. If cattle raisers and dairymen have more milk 

 and meat to sell, they will have more money to spend in the stores for 

 clothes and <rroceries and machinery. They will have more money 

 to put into the banks. AVhen there are no ticks, the cattle raisers 

 <_'et more money for their beef cattle at the h'\<x cattle markets. This 

 biinL'"s more money from the outside into the county. "When more 

 money comes into the county, the ])eoj)le of the county are more 



t»ro>|)ei-ous. There is more business and moi-e woik for them, 

 i^veryone <rets a share of the extra money. 



A IMEDICINK WlIK n KILLS TIC K.S 



It is easy to <ivt rid of cattl<'-f<'\«'i' ticks, 

 money nor take very much time or troulth". 



It does not cost much 

 It is worth (join^. 



