THE TICK-FREE COUNTRY. 27 



Ticky cattle bring lower prices per pound than 

 tick-free cattle. It is more trouble and it costs 

 more to ship ticky cattle. 



THE TICK IS DIPPED OUT OF THE WHITE SPOTS. 



The people living in the counties shown in white 

 below the red line on the map at last got tired of 

 ticks. They asked the United States Department of 

 Agriculture to help them. The Department sent 

 men to show them how to build dipping vats and 

 how to mix the medicine to kill the ticks. 



, Wherever the people dipped all their cattle regu- 

 larly they got rid of these ticks. 



The white places on the map below the red line 

 show where the people have killed all the fever 

 ticks with this medicine. These counties have been 

 freed from the troublesome quarantine rules. The 

 fever ticks have been driven out from 313,800 square 

 miles of the South. 



The red spots on the map show where the people 

 have not yet got rid of fever ticks. There are still 

 414,765 square miles of red territory to be freed from 

 ticks. 



GLAD THEY GOT RID OF TICKS. 



The people who live in the white sections on the 

 map are very glad now that they got rid of the 

 fever ticks. They will not allow ticky cattle to 

 be shipped into their clean counties for fear that the 

 cattle ticks will get back on their cattle. 



They write letters to the Department of Agri- 

 culture saying that they get more milk from their 



