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Usage examples of ticks.

Some ticks were soft taps, others were chimes, others were the sombre clacks of a pendulum.

Buried away under the matted hair of the cattle hid those ticks, and the little ones out in the open seemed to crawl away under the hair when the cramped fingers of the searchers went after them.

It was, to tell the truth, a perspiring and not too interesting waiting until that day a little past the middle of August, when the first northern cow began to show ticks, and presently to stand with her back arched, refusing to eat.

From North Carolina, from the fatal fields down there, came large cans and these cans were filled with grass, that swarmed with ticks, crawling, thirsty for the blood of cows.

You would think he would have advised the government to start an exterminating war on ticks, but that was not the kind of searcher Theobald Smith was.

He tried drenching another cow with mashed up ticks made into a soup-but that cow too seemed to enjoy her strange dose.

He took a good fat yearling heifer, put her in a box-stall, and day after day put hundreds of clean baby ticks on her, holding her while these varmints crawled away beneath her hair to get a good grip on her hide.

Then day after day, while the ticks made their meals, he cut little gashes in her skin to get a drop of blood to see if she was becoming anemic.

For every northern cow, on whom he stuck his regiments of incubator ticks, came down with Texas fever.

Wipe out that insect, dip all of your cattle to kill all their ticks, keep our northern cattle in fields where there are no ticks, and Texas fever will disappear from the earth.

Most little ticks will die waiting, but a few will be lucky enough to attach to a passing creature.

Some bird ticks live in nests and can go for up to two years without food.

Australian ticks include the very nasty Q fever, tick typhus and Lyme disease.

Avoid narrow paths commonly travelled by animals - that is where ticks hang out.

These frequent inspections are important, because diseases carried by ticks usually require that the tick be attached for eight hours or more before the infection begins to set in.