. The diseases of poultry. Poultry. 230 DISEASES OF POULTRY. Washington, D. C. died from this disease; nearly eighty hens and pullets were lost on a farm at Tackett Mills; Va.; about fifty-five out of seventy died in a flock, on Block Island ; fifty old hens died on a farm in Maryland near Washington; and several thousand small chickens died in a broiler-raising establishment in the same section. These instances are mentioned to show the destructiveness of the disease under conditions favorable to its propagation. The germ can not be considered a very virulent one, how- ever, and, as sug- gest
. The diseases of poultry. Poultry. 230 DISEASES OF POULTRY. Washington, D. C. died from this disease; nearly eighty hens and pullets were lost on a farm at Tackett Mills; Va.; about fifty-five out of seventy died in a flock, on Block Island ; fifty old hens died on a farm in Maryland near Washington; and several thousand small chickens died in a broiler-raising establishment in the same section. These instances are mentioned to show the destructiveness of the disease under conditions favorable to its propagation. The germ can not be considered a very virulent one, how- ever, and, as sug- gested by Moore, the outbreaks ap- pear to occur where the requirements of fi?. ;«./,;W.,,.<^,/..nW h, capiiury Ordinarv hvo^iene °^ fowl's Uver, (magnified 2,0U0 diameters.) are not strictly complied with. In other words, this malady may be looked upon as a filth disease, and as the germ resembles in some respects the common intestinal germ known as the Bacillus coli covimnnis., it is not improbable that outbreaks may occur from filth without the necessity of importing the contagion upon a premises. In the brooder-houses above re- ferred to, the brooders were not bedded with sand as they should be, but the chicks were placed directly upon the wooden floors, which became saturated with the droppings. In the high temperature necessarily maintained in the brooders, the decomposition of such. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Salmon, D. E. Washington, D. C. , G. E. Howard & co.
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