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"About the very worst pests of man and domesticated animals are the Harvest-bugs, Red-bugs or Jiggers.... Men and animals passing through low herbage that harbors them are attacked by these pests, which, whenever they succeed in finding a host, burrow in and under the skin, causing intolerable itching and sores, the latter caused by the feverish activity of the finger-nails of the host, if that should be a man, whose energy in scratching, apparently, cannot be controlled and who is bound forcibly to remove the intruders.
The writer has been there! Those who have ever passed through meadows infested with red-bugs will remember the occasion." Horses, cattle, dogs and cats and other animals suffer also. Again sulphur ointments are the best remedies.
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