Show TWO LITTLE TICKS ARE CAUSE OF BIG DAr DAMAGE AGE Ignited united st States tes Survey of Sheep and Spotted Fever Pest Shows Alarming Alarm Alarm- In ing Totals Totals Totals-In In Appearance Ticks Entirely Different v Damage amounting to thousands of dollars is done annually in the Rocky mountain states through two app apparently r looking harmless-looking ticks according to literature published by bythe bythe bythe the United States department of ot ag ag- The two ticks which have been photographed even to their finger prints and otherwise subjected sub sub- subjected to detective play of government government government govern govern- ment scientists are known as the sheep tick and the spotted fever tick Which is the more dangerous the government literature does not say hut but it is pointed out that the sheep tick probably causes a greater loss lossin lossin in money while the fever tick holds holda the tho reputation of ca causing gr greater ter loss of or human life Ufe In appearance the two ticks are entirely different The sheep tick looks like Uke a fly Oy without any wings It has six legs each of which is di divided divided divided di- di vided into three visible segments The spotted fever tick is like a submarine boat and has eight legs or feelers each leg containing five segments Its head is pointed like Uke a tiny dart and according to the government pictures from which the tho above description is derived It appears appears ap pears to have high potentialities for forI penetrating animal tissue I The two ticks ar are are different In their modes of life the sheep tick thrive L ling ing on sheep but the spotted f feye tey I tick tick dies when it gets on a a sheep h ep The sheep tick has no great no-great great affinity for tor mankind It is said fever tick likes men best monkeys second Owing to the difference in their modes of ot life Ufe it ha has been suggested I by government o officials facials that the ticks be used in an extermination of ono one another It has been found by experiment experiment experiment ex ex- that the wool of a sheep affords too high a temperature for fort l the spotted fever tick to thrive and consequently the government has I been urged to graze sheep in th the Bitter Bit Bit- J ter Root valley of ot Montana where I the fever tick is most a abundant using usIng using us- us usI 1 I ing sheep as the destroyer of the fever ticks It is said that the spotted spotted spotted spot spot- ted fever tick Is ready to make its abode on the body of or a sheep as well as on any other but that its death death results soon after I IThe 1 The difference of ot mortality rato I in various localities is pointed out in the literature the th figures showing that In Utah and Idaho the death rate produced by the spotted fever Is about 7 per cent while in BitterRoot Bitter Ditter BitterRoot i Root valley it is 70 per cent These These figures are based on number number of or cases cases cases' where the tick has infested the body I of man I l i iThe IThe The danger of or the fever tick being i i transported from Bitter Root where where I it is believed to have originated before be be- j be-j fore tore the time of ot white settlers iu iL the west Is also pointed out but in the literature Increased effort being made to localize the little tick and finally to exterminate it In Montana Thus far there have been a few traces of the tick found in Utah Idaho Colorado Wyoming New Mexico Arizona and Nevada The little parasite appears to be a western west west- western ern species entirely and efforts are being made to keep It in its mountain mountain mountain moun moun- tain home One of or the most effective ways of fighting the two grim pests It Is s said in the literature I is Ia that of dipping infected animals This Is easier lu in application to the sheep tick than the spotted fever tick as the sheep tick is is gene generally airy found on sheep that will willobey willobey willobey obey the the order of dipping when properly approached but the fever tick has bas a more mere varied habitat and I abides on almost any which I has not an of hair or wool |