CATTLE TICK.
outbreak: a tologa bat. WELLINGTON, January 21. It was stated to-day by Dr G. J. Reakes, Director-general of Agriculture, that the tick -invasion discovered in Poverty Bay is limited to a small area in the Tologa Bay district. The ticks are-.of the-same variety aVthose further north, and, though they have never been known to cause any sickness among cattle; or act as conveyers of disease, it is recognised that'they are undesirable parasites, and are capable of doing soriie damage'to hides when in the present’quantity; •' <; s i ---: • j- pis- ’ A systematic effort- is -being -made -to stamp-them out. They are not ; the-same as’the tick in-Queensland, which carries the tick fever'from : ariimal to animal/
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Otago Witness, Issue 3802, 25 January 1927, Page 20
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114CATTLE TICK. Otago Witness, Issue 3802, 25 January 1927, Page 20
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