. Agriculture and the farming business . o THE FARMING BUSINESS 555 times called Texas fever. The disease is caused by a smallanimal parasite carried to the affected animals by a smalltick. The parasite works in the blood of the animal, caus-ing a high fever. Loss from the Texas fever ticks.—Not only does thetick carry to the animal on which it lives the parasite thatcauses serious disease, but it lives off the blood of its host,decreases its vitality, and reduces the amount of milk or The Tick Takes Milk as Well as Milk from Tick-Free Cows. From Cows with Few Ticka. From Cows with Man
. Agriculture and the farming business . o THE FARMING BUSINESS 555 times called Texas fever. The disease is caused by a smallanimal parasite carried to the affected animals by a smalltick. The parasite works in the blood of the animal, caus-ing a high fever. Loss from the Texas fever ticks.—Not only does thetick carry to the animal on which it lives the parasite thatcauses serious disease, but it lives off the blood of its host,decreases its vitality, and reduces the amount of milk or The Tick Takes Milk as Well as Milk from Tick-Free Cows. From Cows with Few Ticka. From Cows with Many Ticks. beef produced. It is estimated that the annual loss to theSouth from this one species alone has amounted to manymillions of dollars. Freeing cattle of ticks.—Treatment of animals sickwith tick fever is usually not satisfactory. The remedy liesin prevention, which means getting rid of the ticks. Sev-eral methods are used for freeing cattle of ticks: (1) Theticks are picked off by hand, or scraped off several timesuntil the animals are free from the pests. (2) The cattle 556 AGRICULTURE AND are sprayed or rubbed with cottonseed oil, fish oil, or a mix-ture of kerosene and oil. (3) A dipping vat is used con-taining a carefully prepared disinfecting solution. Caremust be exercised not to pasture cattle on land infested withticks. Foot-and-mouth disease.—This is a highly contagiousdisease greatly dreaded by farmers. It attacks not onlycattle, but hogs, sheep, horses, dogs, cats and beings may a
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