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THE CATTLE FEVER TICK. 



These are fever ticks. A, Full-grown female; B, young fever 'tick after 



first molt. The picture-; arc much larger than real ticks 



These ticks, found on dogs and other animals, do not give tick fever to 

 cattle. A, American dog tick; 1>, Gulf coast tick; C, brown dog tiek. 

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on jui animal it docs not leave that animal until it 

 drops off to die or to lay eggs. So live ticks do not 

 pass from one cow or steer bo another. 



How do the fever ticks carry tick fever from a 

 sick animal to a well animal'? The tick that is suck- 

 ing blood from a sick animal gets the germs of this 

 fever in the Mood it cats. These fever germs stay 

 in the tick's body and get into its eggs. The germs 



