A fence erected to prevent the movement of tick-infested cattle.
at Tweed Heads, a bull jumped the tick fence into Queensland
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He showed me remnants of old "tick fences" put up years ago to keep Mexican cattle from getting into Texas pastures.
For what reason is this man here, seeing that there is a tick fence which will exist for all time?
The rusted remains of a tick fence are still standing on the platform.
People wandered back and forth through the gate in the tick fence hardly noticing.
No permanent solution to this problem has even yet been found, but periodical dipping affords some measure of control, while tick fences and grids prevent the spread to non-infested areas.
When prosperous cowmen built tick fences, many less well heeled resented it.
At the mouth of the Tweed River the tick fence divides the two portions of the residential area.
Both a leech and a tick have been found in my dining-room after those connected with the tick fences have been here.
On our southern boundary runs the tick fence, which terminates between Coolangatta and Tweed Heads.
That day we did not ascend higher than the tick fence, about half-way up the mountain.