Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . CALF LOUSE. BIRD APPEARANCE OP A COW AFFECTEDWITH LICE. Trichodecies, having no sucking tul)e, but with strong biting jaws. Thecixts show all these parasites, of course very much enlarged. There are also ticks infestingcattle at certain seasons, and espec-ially plentiful on Texas cattle. Ofthe several varieties founc
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . CALF LOUSE. BIRD APPEARANCE OP A COW AFFECTEDWITH LICE. Trichodecies, having no sucking tul)e, but with strong biting jaws. Thecixts show all these parasites, of course very much enlarged. There are also ticks infestingcattle at certain seasons, and espec-ially plentiful on Texas cattle. Ofthe several varieties founci, the oneknown as the Texas tick {BoophihisBovis) is the most important, itbeing the cause, at least of thetransmission, of Texas fever. The-emale attaches herself to the animal where the skin is thin and soft—onthe insides of the thighs, along up to the anus, just back of the elbows ;n the neck back of the ears—by burying her head into the skin, is fecunda-ted by the male, which dies immediately after, and remains there till matureif not pulled or rubbed off, then she drops offand hides under a crust, where she lays her eggsand dies. The young ticks hatch out in a fewdays, and, being very active, get on to the cattleas opportunity offers, and so the round is con-tinued. These
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