A tick-free South . ew owners care toimport a valuable bull into a ticky country only to see itdie of tick fever. The returns from grade stock inheavier, fatter animals and in greater milk productionhave been demonstrated many times. Elsewhere thefarmer is taking the lesson to heart, but the man in aticky county is helpless to act upon it no matter howconvinced of its importance. Wlien the tick goes out it leaves the door open for thepure-bred bull to come in. Like most good things, suchan animal costs money, but for those unable to makesuch a heavy investment there are the cooperative bullclu
A tick-free South . ew owners care toimport a valuable bull into a ticky country only to see itdie of tick fever. The returns from grade stock inheavier, fatter animals and in greater milk productionhave been demonstrated many times. Elsewhere thefarmer is taking the lesson to heart, but the man in aticky county is helpless to act upon it no matter howconvinced of its importance. Wlien the tick goes out it leaves the door open for thepure-bred bull to come in. Like most good things, suchan animal costs money, but for those unable to makesuch a heavy investment there are the cooperative bullclubs. Through the medium of these organizationsfarmers can secure for themselves at a very moderate (5) cost all the benefits of a pure-bred sire which replacesin a community a number of individually owned scrubbulls. These scrubs may and in all probability do rep-represent in the aggregate a much larger investment thanthe one pure-bred, but they do nothing hke as muchto bring money into the community. In one club the. th ^ood blood but ticks are getting the blood that igo into breeding strength. membership fee was $ a yccu-. In return the farmerobtained in the course of a period of 10 years the serv-ices of five 8-iO bulls. The ultimate effect of such organization upon thecharacter of the herds is, of course, obvious. And theSouth is badly in need of improvement in this respect. On January 1, 1915, the average price of 2-year-old beefcattle in 10 tick-infested States was $ For theremainder of the country it was $ Eighteen tick-free States had an average of over $50, and only twowere under $40. Part of this difference is due to thefact that ticky cattle are not only scrubs but unhealthy ^ 1 j^p*;^«WK5W| .,4 This shows what ticks do to a pure-bred cow—suck out the valuable blood thatshe should be giving to her calves. The better the blood, the more costly the scrubs as well. The blood that should go to the makingof flesh is wasted in feeding the tick. The tick g
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