. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. History op Cooper's Cattle Dip FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF TICKS. Cooper's Cattle Dip is the! result of 5 years continuous research work, nbt only by chemists working ia • l^bonUory, bot by Practical Cattlemen working under practical conditions in badly Tickiinfested areas. It wa» in 1905 that our searcii for the Perfect Cattle Dip commenced, and the method we adopted wa» to purdiMC, pordjr for ezpoimental purposes, a large farm right in the very heart of the Tick-infested Coastal Area of South Af
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. History op Cooper's Cattle Dip FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF TICKS. Cooper's Cattle Dip is the! result of 5 years continuous research work, nbt only by chemists working ia • l^bonUory, bot by Practical Cattlemen working under practical conditions in badly Tickiinfested areas. It wa» in 1905 that our searcii for the Perfect Cattle Dip commenced, and the method we adopted wa» to purdiMC, pordjr for ezpoimental purposes, a large farm right in the very heart of the Tick-infested Coastal Area of South Africa. This farm i> called Qonubie Park, and is close to E^t London, m the Cape Province. What we aimed at was the co-opwration of- the trained Chemist and tJife practical SljockiAan'; so a Laboratory was erected on the Fcinn in charge of our Head Chemist, and the practical Manager in charge of the Stock was told that his first, aad indeed his only duty, was to assist and further, to the full extent of his power, the research work of the Chemist. It should be mentioned that, previously to its purchase by us, the Farm had been practically abandoned owing to ihe Tick infestation being so bad as to preclude absolutely the raismg of either Large or Small. Stock—for ticks in South Africa are the cause of many other diseases besides Red-water «r Texas Fever, which is the only Tick-borne disease of economic importance met with in most Tick-infested countries. One cannot conceive of a more grossly Tick-infested area than was Gonubie Park. It was impossible to keep sheep there for any length of time, as they died from Heart-water, transmitted by Ticks, within a few weeks. About 80/» of the calves born there also died from Heart-water or some other tick-borne disease ; whilst dairy farming was in such a deplorable state, due to the ravages of Ticks, that a cow with a sound udder and teats was a great rarity, and it was not an uncommon occurrence to be compelled to sell'to the b
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