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With dipping and starvation combined, the ticks which get 

 On the cattle are being killed off, and simultaneously those ticks 

 which do not find a host are dying of starvation. AIsd, if a 

 Suitable dip be chosen, the ticks which get on immediately after 

 dipping die. In other words, dipping means quick destruction 

 of a certain proportion of the ticks, combined with the slower 

 process of starvation of the remainder. 



In the United States, where Texan fever, or redwater, is the 

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

 the starvation method is said to have been practised with 

 success. 



The Soiling .Method. 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. 



