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 . f 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
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 . f 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 ticks contain the germs of Texasfever, and they spread the disease through theirbites. The accompanying cut shows the Texas tlOlF o TRXAf 9i0 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR, What to do.—The remedy for Hcks consists in careful currying andpicking them off. This can be dene if the herd is small, but to avoid over-looking the small ones, which are just as injurious as the large ones, spongethem thoroughly once a week with No. 55, or i)arafiin oil, till all ticks arekilled. All ticks that are pulled or curried off should be burned. Forlice on cattle, the following will be found among the best remedies in use: No. 55. Yi Pound of tobacco,1 Gallon of water, Steep for cwo hours.
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