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Word: tick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...years the County had spent more than $250,000 in eradicating the Texas fever tick which had blocked progress of livestock and dairy development. But cattle would ramble across the border from Louisiana (where no eradication measures were practiced) and re-infest Pike County stock as fast as they had been purged. The McComb Enterprise advocated the building of a double wire fence the length of the County line; was met by ridicule, hostility. It fought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ticks & Kudos | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

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