cattle-tick

The order of mites (_Accorina_), which includes the wood-tick, cattle-tick, etc., and mites, are quickly told from the higher orders -- true spiders and scorpions -- by their rounded bodies, which appear like mere sacks, with little appearance of segmentation, and their small, obscure heads.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883 Various

Bureau, experimenting with remedies for the boll-weevil, and fighting the plague of the cattle-tick.

Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905

Poultry and Tomato Clubs; and was full of homely advice upon such living subjects as the spraying of fruit trees, and how to save them from blight and scale-insects, and how to get rid of flies, and cut-worms, and to fight the cattle-tick, which is our curse; and the preservation of birds, concerning which he was rabid.

Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905