TEXAS FEVEK. 



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Ticks may crawl from the edge of one pasture into an adjoining 

 pasture, or engorged females may drop from the heads of animals 

 reaching through a dividing fence. These difficulties are best ovw^ 

 come by consti'uctmg a double fe.irc with an intervening space of 



ri^LD N0.2B. 

 OCT. I2.M0VETHEHERD_ 

 TO FIELD NO. 3. 



o/iTj rau-owED by 



coiA/pcfls on OTH 



rORMCE. 



rTT 



FIELD NO.ZA. 

 SEPT22.M0VETHE 

 HERD TO FIELD 

 NO 2 B. 



FIELD N0.3. 

 CORN. 



COIVPE/IS. 



NOU. I. MOVE THE HERD 10 

 FIELD NO.M. 



FIELD NO. 4-. 

 COTTON. 



nre OR CRIMSON 

 CLOVE n. 



H0U5E. 



P/ISTURE: BERMUO/1 ,\/ET,CH,flND BUR CLOVER. 



FIELD NO.I B. 

 5EFT 2. MOVE THE HERO TO FIELD 

 NO. 2/1. KEEP OUT ALL miMALS 

 UNTIL JULY I, WHEN THIS FIELD 

 WILL dE FREE orr/CK-S /)W0 THE 

 TEMPORARY DOUBLE FENCE M/IY BE 

 REMOVED. 



I I 



I I 



I FIELD NO. I n. 



I JUNE 15. m\IE THEHEE\D TO FIELD 

 NO. (8. KEEP OUT ALL flNIM/lLS 

 FROM THISD/1TE UNTIL WOI/. /,WH£N 



I rWS FIELD MILL BE FREE OF TICK?,. 



Fig. 1. — Plan for freeing' cattle and pastui-os from ticks by rotation, requiring four and 



one-iialf montlis. 



15 feet. Such a fence, if the land does not slope greatly, also greatly 

 reduces the danger of ticks being \\'aslied by rain from one pasture to 

 the other. 



Plan requinng fcnir and one-half -months. — The plan of rotation 

 represented in figure 1 requires four and a half months for its com- 



