Georgia, historical and industrial . ,o ^^ ^^%^. HON. R. T. NESBITT,Tliird Commissioner of T^gricullure. GEORGIA: HISTORICAL AXD INDUSTRIAL. 435 mature. Hence the places most frequented by the cattle in the pasturageare where you ^vill find the most infection, yet any place may becomeinfected pro\ided the cattle pass over it and drop the tick at such aplace. In summing up the life history of the tick Dr. Cooper Curtice says: 1. Ticks are introduced on farms by cattle. 2. Seed ticks appear in from twenty-five days to sLx weeks. • 3. Ticks grow to maturity in about four weeks after they attachto
Georgia, historical and industrial . ,o ^^ ^^%^. HON. R. T. NESBITT,Tliird Commissioner of T^gricullure. GEORGIA: HISTORICAL AXD INDUSTRIAL. 435 mature. Hence the places most frequented by the cattle in the pasturageare where you ^vill find the most infection, yet any place may becomeinfected pro\ided the cattle pass over it and drop the tick at such aplace. In summing up the life history of the tick Dr. Cooper Curtice says: 1. Ticks are introduced on farms by cattle. 2. Seed ticks appear in from twenty-five days to sLx weeks. • 3. Ticks grow to maturity in about four weeks after they attachto cattle. 4. Ticks when mature fall to the ground to give rise to new multi-tudes. SOME REMEDIAL SUGGESTIONS. If proper and judicious work be done, there is no good reason whythe farms and counties of North Georgia should remain infected longerthan twelve months. In point of fact many militia districts, as wellas almost entire counties, are practically free of the diseasercarryingtick. We would not advise the discrimination between ticks, as a
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