Can’t Have Good Milch
Cattle in a Tick-Infested Neighborhood
“One of the saddest cases of influenza which I have treated
this year occurred in the lower part of the county,” said a local physician
this week.
“An entire family was down with the disease. There were two
small children who were critically ill. They needed nourishing food, and above
all things they needed milk. I endeavored to procure some but found it difficult
to obtain more than small quantities. With the right kind of food, and
especially with sufficient milk, they would have convalesced rapidly. As it
was, they had to remain in bed for several weeks.”
The doctor went on to say that it was not only in influenza
but other cases of sickness as well that the patients would be materially
benefited by a diet in which milk figured liberally.
“I don’t see why the farmers don’t keep more cows,” he
added.
The reason for the shortage of cows in Pasquotank County is due
to the deadly work of the cattle tick. As long as the county remains under
quarantine it will always be impossible to raise cows in any considerable
number. And with a shortage of cows there is bound to be a shortage of milk.
Tick eradication and the subsequent raising of better cattle is the only
solution.
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