CATTLE TICK.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 167, 2 December 1912, Page 5

CATTLE TICK.

AN AMERICAN REPORT. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, November 30. The report of the Royal Commissioner who investigated the suppression of cattle ticks in the United States has been tabled in the Assembly. Almost complete absence of straying stock on roads and public places constitutes a very material factor in assisting the eradication of the tick. In every Eastern State cattle are dipped every ten or fourteen days, and in the Southern and Central States every eighteen, twenty-one, and thirty days: Since 1906 167,712 square miles have been nearly a quarter quarantined, and the area freed from ticks. When the number of cattle relative to the area permits, the starvation of the seed or larvae of ticks, by the rotation method of resting the pastures, gives very quick and reliable results. The opinion is expressed that cross-breeding for immunity from tick fever cannot be done, although Brahmin crosses proved remarkably resistant to the tick. The solution used in the dipping vats is an arsenical preparation similar to that used in NewSouth Wales. There are numerous recommendations regarding quarantine, dipping, inspection of stock and the erection of vats.