U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRI' ULTURE 

 WASHINGTON, D. C. 



October 1, 1917. 



Dear School Children of the South: 



I know that you do not like to have cows and steers and 

 calves get sick and die. When a cow dies there is less milk 

 and when a steer dies there is less meat, and we all like milk 

 and butter and meat with our meals. We all like to see fat, 

 healthy cattle grazing in the country. 



You can help to keep cattle from getting sick and dying by 

 reading this story book and then getting your parents to 

 fight cattle fever ticks in your county. 



For most of the cattle that die of sickness in the South die 

 because they have been bitten by cattle fever ticks. 



These ticks carry tick fever from a sick animal to a well 

 one. This sickness is sometimes called redwater, or murrain. 

 Some animals bitten by ticks do not die, but every year fever 

 ticks kill thousands of cattle that ought to be giving milk or 

 become meat at the butcher's. 



This story book tells you how to get rid of these robber 

 ticks. In many counties people have gotten rid of fever 

 ticks by building dipping vats and making their cattle 

 swim through a medicine that kills ticks. These people have 

 freed their stock from tick fever and now are sending to 

 market all the milk and meat that the ticks used to steal. 

 They are turning feed into valuable food instead of into 

 worthless ticks. 



Get your father and mother to read this story. 



I hope that you and your friends will enjoy this little book 

 Very truly, yours, 



a. 



Chief, Bureau of Animal Industry. 



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