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Show SCIENCE AND THE TEXAS CATTLE FEVER. Many people have wondered why the livestock live-stock men of Texas, did not long ago improve their breed of cattle. The reason was, that a very large percentage of the fine stock, imported there, died of Texas fever. But science was called in and the trouble has so nearly been cured, that complete com-plete success is looked for in the near future. It was discovered that the fever came from the ticks that infest animals there. The first triumph was the discovery that when the ticks were removed re-moved it was perfectly safe to send the animals through Northern herds, whereas, one animal covered with ticks sent North, was enough to decimate dec-imate a herd. Then a trial was "made of injecting the blood of anima's, covered with ticks, into Northern cattle, before shipping them South. Such animals were made sick for a few days, but speedily rallied, and as a rule, were thenceforth found to be immunes when turned on the Texas ranges; the same as most people after vaccination are found to be immunes, when smallpox is rag-Jng rag-Jng around them. It is believed that this will speedily insure a complete transformation of J H Southern cattle, and it is mentioned incidentally, ; B that with such change made, the herds of the ? South would be increased in value quite $60,00,000. H By the way, agriculture in the South, is talc- i H ing on tremendous proportions. The value of H seven Southern products, cotton, corn, fruit and j f H vegetables, hay, wheat, sugar and sorgum, and I H rice, Is put down at $948,193,769, or more than , f H thirty per cent of the total product of the coun- J H try, and it Is expected that this will bo vastly in- B creased in the very near future. Cotton is no H longer King in the South. Her corn acreage Is J H greater than the cotton acreage. H |