Show PIUTE COUNTY NEWS plute county lis a gem fern of PIUTE COUNTY NEWS b beauty set la in A square of wealth agricultural and mineral THE COUNTY PUBLIC publication ION industries IN COUNTY AND VICINITY DEVOTED TO THE INTEREST STOCK RAISING AGRI agriculture CULTURA NININO LUmBERING AND OTHER MARYSVALE UTAH FRIDAY JUNE NUMBER 24 ad tur united blacks become disease is a rough the y t I 1 measures tt poultry sate agri ural blackhead a parasite disease that effects principally young turkeys in the early summer er and late fall it may aw cause lows losses among chickens and older turkeys the term blackhead has been applied because of the common discoloration of tho the head of the baid that dies of the disease however this symptom Is seen seca in other and does not always occur in blackhead the most common common symptoms are sulphur col ored drop droop droopiness iness loss of appetite and an invariable loss of weight weigh many turkey breeders bleeders bre eders now rear their boults artificially in order to prevent losses from blackhead they keep tho the pouts first in coops and runs that can be easily cleans ed and later on pasture that Is i known not to have been ranged on oil i by turkeys any turkeys which show atoms of disease are promptly oved and isolated and those mid 3 Soc have bave died are burned promptly 40 chickens hickens may contract the disease says mr but they usually recover and remain as carriers of the organisms which are discharged in their these organisms may infect other birds if picked up in contaminated food or water pd and as young soung turkeys tur keis are espe especially cialli susceptible they should never be allowed to bo run with chickens it la Is a dangerous practice even to fertilize with chicken manure the ground on which turkeys are allowed to range as they may pick up the organisms in sufficient numbers to cause serious losses |