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THE CATTI.F. IT.\ Kit TICK. 



If only we could find and destroy all these tiny 

 eggs laid in the grass, we could keep the seed ticks 

 from hatching out. But no one can hope to find all 

 these tiny eggs that are in a ticky pasture. 



Egg-laying tick and e<j^ 

 that she has laid. 



The easiest and surest way to get rid of ticks is to 

 kill them while they are on the animal and before 

 they have a chance to lay eggs in the grass. 



Ticks can be killed on cows, steers, calves, and 

 horses by making the animals swim through a dip- 

 ping vat full of a medicine which kills the ticks. 



HOW TICKS KILL CATTLE. 



The owner of the cow on which the ticks had been 

 feeding saw that she was getting sick. She was Aery 

 thin and weak and feverish. The doctor looked at 

 her. He said: "The cow is dying of tick fever." 

 Tick fever is also called redwater, murrain, and 

 splenetic fever. The cow got so weak it could not 

 get up on its legs. At last it died in the pasture. 

 The cow had cost $40, and the owner lost all this 

 money. 



