The Cattle Tick.
• ♦ As an example of the destructiveness of the tick cattle plagu* which is now ravaging Queensland, it if stated that there is a small penimala having a base line tast to Barratto Greek from Ayr, on which twelve months ago there were 15,000 cattle, and where 75 per cent are eithtr dead or put through the pots, and the country practically abandoned for cattle. This tick belongs to the family Izodiac, and especially of the genus Ixodes. There are many species found in the woods and fields, capable of independent existence, but liable to fasten upon dogs, oattl«, Ac, forming temporary parasites. They bury the head in th« skin of th« host, and hang tberb sucking thff blood until they swell up •normously, lose thtir hold, and drop off.
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Manawatu Herald, 9 June 1896, Page 2
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132The Cattle Tick. Manawatu Herald, 9 June 1896, Page 2
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