TICKS KILL MANY CATTLE. 



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in the egg get into the body of the baby tick before 

 it hatches out. The baby tick after it hatches out 

 carries these germs with it when it gets on a cow or 

 steer or calf in search of blood. 



When the tick bores its well into the hide it lets 

 some of these fever germs get into the blood of the 

 animal. These germs spread through the blood of 

 the cow or steer or calf and make it sick with tick 

 fever. 



Sometimes these germs do not make the animal 

 very sick. Such animals do not die of fever. But 

 in many cases the germs make the cattle very sick 

 and kill them. 



Thousands of cows and steers and calves are killed 

 every year in the South by this tick fever carried 

 by ticks. 



Many animals that do not die of the fever are 

 weak and scrawnv and sickly for the rest of their 

 lives. 



The kind of cattle the fever tick lets live. 



