20 THE CATTLE 1 K\ BE TICK. 



GETTING KID OF TICKS HELPS A COUNTY. 



You can see that it is a very good thing for cattle 

 owners to get rid of ticks. Without ticks they have 

 more milk and meat to sell. Their cattle do not die 

 of fever. They can raise more cattle. They can 

 raise better kinds of cattle. They get full returns 

 from their feed. Thev make more monev. 



Getting rid of fever ticks is a good thing also for 

 all the business men of the county. If cattle raisers 

 and dairvmen have more milk and meat to sell, thev 

 will have more money to spend in the stores for 

 clothes and groceries and machinery. The}' will 

 have more money to put into the banks. When 

 there are no ticks, the cattle raisers get more money 

 for their beef cattle at the big cattle markets. This 

 brings more money from the outside into the county. 

 When more money comes into the county, the people 

 of the county are more prosperous. There is more 

 business and more work for them. Even-one gets a 

 share of the extra money. 



A MEDICINE WHICH KILLS TICKS. 



It is easy to get rid of cattle fever ticks. It does 

 not cost much money nor take very much time or 

 trouble. It is worth doing. 



The United States Department of Agriculture has 

 found a sure and simple way to kill all of the fever 

 ticks in a county. 



It has made a medicine called an arsenical bath. 

 This medicine kills all the ticks that are wet with it. 



The easiest way to wet the ticks is to make the 

 cattle swim through a vat filled with this medicine. 



To make ;i v:it, the people first dig a deep, long 

 trench. They line this trench with concrete and 



