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EFFECTS OF TICK ERADICATION. 
horn sires. The calves were taken away from their dams in the 
fall and fed on farm-grown feeds. When fat they weighed 870 
pounds each on the farm and ranged from 15 to 18 months of age. 
The} 7 were shipped to the Chicago market, where they averaged 800 
pounds in weight and sold for 8 cents a pound. Scrub cows worth 
about $17 each when bred to good beef bulls, therefore, produced 
calves which at less than a year and a half old sold for $G4 a head. 
Those calves never had a tick on them ; their mothers had been kept 
on good pastures, and they received good treatment from the time 
they were born until they were sold. 
What has been the result of this kind of farming? There are 
to-day on this farm crops which five } T ears ago it would have seemed 
FIG. 4. — Some excellent Shorthorn heifers raised on a Tennessee farm. 
impossible to grow, a herd of over 200 purebred Shorthorns, another 
of more than 200 grades and native cows, good barns and other farm 
buildings, beautiful cottages, and some of the finest meadows of 
clover and grasses to be found anywhere. Nine large silos, two of 
which have a capacity of 300 tons each, are filled with silage each 
year; there are large barns in which to store the cowpea and other 
kinds of hay produced, and several hundred good hogs and sheep arc 
kept on the place. The whole property is divided by good fences 
into numerous pastures, fields, and paddocks. The immense amount 
of manure produced is hauled direct to the fields, and this, together 
witli the legumes planted and the green crops which are plowed 
under with deep-tilling machines pulled by a gasoline "caterpillar" 
tractor, or walking plows drawn by large Percheron mares, is build- 
