. Agriculture, its fundamental principles. Agriculture. 252 AGRICULTURE the milk or flesh, the harmful bacteria are destroyed. The ten- dency to tuberculosis is increased by anything that weakens the general health of the animal, such as overcrowding in foul, badly- aired stables, feeding bad food, and overproduction of milk and young. The disease is contagious, and animals affected with it 3-: r^^Sr-^ '^'•~*T^^^^. Shokthukn Steers The steers in this car-load lot averaged 1544 lb. in weight; they were prize winners at a Texas Fat Stock Show. should never be kept in a stable or herd with health
. Agriculture, its fundamental principles. Agriculture. 252 AGRICULTURE the milk or flesh, the harmful bacteria are destroyed. The ten- dency to tuberculosis is increased by anything that weakens the general health of the animal, such as overcrowding in foul, badly- aired stables, feeding bad food, and overproduction of milk and young. The disease is contagious, and animals affected with it 3-: r^^Sr-^ '^'•~*T^^^^. Shokthukn Steers The steers in this car-load lot averaged 1544 lb. in weight; they were prize winners at a Texas Fat Stock Show. should never be kept in a stable or herd with healthy ones. Badly diseased cattle should be Tick Fever. —Tick, or Texas, fever, prevails south of Maryland from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It is caused by a parasite, con- veyed by cattle ticks, which are parasites of the southern United States. A tick cannot mature except on an animal. It fixes itself on the skin of cattle at pasture; when full-grown, it drops off and lays its eggs — fifteen to twenty-five hundred — on the grass. If the young ticks which hatch out fail to fix themselves on animals, they die in a few Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Soule, Andrew MacNairn. [from old catalog]; Turpin, Edna Henry Lee, 1867-1952, joint author. Richmond, Atlanta [etc. ] B. F. Johnson publishing company
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