. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. THE AQRIOULTUIIAL NEWS. How Ticks Reduce the Milk Yield An Important Matter for Owners of Dairy Herds. •ATTLS TIOH VKt fUbwlng infcrmalhn It ta^tn fnm Farmtrt !B»ttetin, No. 639, laued officially hy the 'Department of Agrlcii!lurc of the Vnllei Slolrt. Tlw •dual amount oi harm whicb licki ito to cattle u no longer a matter of mere conjecture. But the need of deBri:e knowledge on iliii tob^M^ led Am DajiwtAMDt to coodsct kmm cxparineDti on the effect of ihe lick on milk production and on the body weightt of dairy ca
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. THE AQRIOULTUIIAL NEWS. How Ticks Reduce the Milk Yield An Important Matter for Owners of Dairy Herds. •ATTLS TIOH VKt fUbwlng infcrmalhn It ta^tn fnm Farmtrt !B»ttetin, No. 639, laued officially hy the 'Department of Agrlcii!lurc of the Vnllei Slolrt. Tlw •dual amount oi harm whicb licki ito to cattle u no longer a matter of mere conjecture. But the need of deBri:e knowledge on iliii tob^M^ led Am DajiwtAMDt to coodsct kmm cxparineDti on the effect of ihe lick on milk production and on the body weightt of dairy caMle. RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS Foriy COW! were divkled into 2 lou oi 20, each of whicii was producing practically the same amount of niilta a«<l wa< given the tame feed and care (or an average of 1S2 were producing IS'' l«s miik than the cows kept free (rem ticki, practically If pints less per cow per day. 3. At the end of the expeiimenls the cows heavily infested with ticks were producing ' less milk than the lick free cows, or ne-arly one-hall gallon le» per head per day. 4- Oaring the experiment period of one of the tests, which included 20 cows, the heavily inle>u>d cows lost an averasre of poundt ip weight, while the tkk fre« cowt gained an average of pounds, although both were fed alike. 1 THE COST OF FEEDING TICKS If a pen keep«r or dairymaa with 20 cows, each producing 8 quarts of milk a day, should let them become lightly infested with ticks, the milk induction would be dacrauad to tbc czlenl of 1 ^ quarta a day for each cow. At as low an estimate of 20 ctntt. a gallon or 5 cents, a quart, this wenid amount to 7i ceott. or $ \M (or the entire herd of 20 cows each day. If the tick infestation were heavy the reduction in the milk yield would be quarts a da> for each cow. equal to 17 ccnls. in milk values. This would amouDt to ^ a day for the herd of 20 cows. The following it aa actual ezpcricBce cl a dairyman in a very heavily
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