. Poultry diseases and their remedies. ent flocks. It is much more rapid thanconsumption and will soon cause the bird to wear away, orgoing light as some express it. As soon as we find abird of this kind in our flock it is best to kill the diseasedbird at once and cremate it for fear if it is buried it willbe scratched up by some dog or cat and hence cause therest of the flock to become exposed to it. Tuberculosis is a disease that we should do all in ourpower to exterminate. We all know what it is doing forthe human race and up to a few years ago they were notdoing anything to check its sprea
. Poultry diseases and their remedies. ent flocks. It is much more rapid thanconsumption and will soon cause the bird to wear away, orgoing light as some express it. As soon as we find abird of this kind in our flock it is best to kill the diseasedbird at once and cremate it for fear if it is buried it willbe scratched up by some dog or cat and hence cause therest of the flock to become exposed to it. Tuberculosis is a disease that we should do all in ourpower to exterminate. We all know what it is doing forthe human race and up to a few years ago they were notdoing anything to check its spread but since they havemade great strides to check and fight this dreaded dis-ease. We have known birds to catch it from tuberculosiscows and you should watch such in order to keep down itsspread. There is a germ-bacillus present in all cases of tu-berculosis and from this is where the disease spreads. Theonly symptoms that is present in tuberculosis is the birdgoing light and some cases the bird will be so weak it AND THEIR REMEDIES 63. The liver and spleen on the right are from a tubercular fowl. Thepresence of nodules or tubercles is evidence of tuberculosis. The lightspots on the liver and spleen on the left are due to light reflection, theyare not tubercles. This illustration furnished by courtesy of the Agricul-tural Extension Service, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. can not walk more than half a dozen steps before it is com-pletely exhausted. There will also be a slight cough withit and a little difficulty in breathing. Treatment. It will not pay you to treat birds with tuberculosis,for even if you could patch them up so they lookedgood, you would not want to breed from such birds andhave them passing these germs down to their offspringand in a few years have your whole flock a diseased one,would you? It is best by all means to kill the bird assoon as you discover it is going light and you suspecttuberculosis. Cremate it and you have it out of the way. Begin then to
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