. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . ans of the turkeys un-doing, one fact remains clear and undisputed, andthat is that turkey raisers are confronted with amost serious problem. It is only by the co-operationof experiment stations and government officials withturkey raisers and farmers, together with thepassage of laws of strict governmental inspection,that we may hope to gain the upper hand of a dis-ease which, while it may not be a menace to thehealth of our people, because it is said not to becommunicable to human beings, yet threatens dire 348 PROFITABLE STOCK FEEDING. disa
. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . ans of the turkeys un-doing, one fact remains clear and undisputed, andthat is that turkey raisers are confronted with amost serious problem. It is only by the co-operationof experiment stations and government officials withturkey raisers and farmers, together with thepassage of laws of strict governmental inspection,that we may hope to gain the upper hand of a dis-ease which, while it may not be a menace to thehealth of our people, because it is said not to becommunicable to human beings, yet threatens dire 348 PROFITABLE STOCK FEEDING. disaster to this important branch of the poultry in-dustry. Investigations in Rhode Island.—Because we arestill young in the West and our experiment stationsare not, for the most part, equipped with facilitiesfor experimentation in this line of work, it may bewell to call the attention of Western farmers tothe work done in the East, especially at the RhodeIsland Experiment Station, where investigationswith this disease, have been carried forward now. Cseciim, or blind gut, of turkey affected witti hepatitis. Liver of turkey affected withhepatitis. Spots indi-cate dead tissue. for more than ten years. That farmers may recog-nize the disease when it appears in their flocks,illustrations from photographs made by the RhodeIsland Station, showing the diseased appearanceof the organs primarily concerned in the malady,are given herewith, and the following descriptionis quoted from the official report of that Stationmade in 1894: The disease apparently first attacks the caecum,or pronged part of the lower bowel, which event- TURKEYS AND GUINEAS. 349 ually becomes thickened and enlarged, and oftenbadly ulcerated. The liver is next affected, be-comes spotted and in advanced stages is coveredwith circular yellowish areas, showing destructionof tissue within the organ. The disease attacksyoung turkeys at all ages and gradually turkeys succumb to it in the latter part ofJuly and
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