Show Protect Flo From Para Paras L- L Worms Causing Greatly Great H creased Losses to t l Poultry Industry The recent studies of of the United States Department of Agriculture are arc 0 oI Oi scientific Inter Inter- Interest interest Interest est and of or practical value alue to poultry owners Referring to a 8 10 per cent decline In the chickens of the J 28 hatch compared with that of the pre pre- previous Ions year Dr Eloise B n Cram of the bureau of animal Industry raIses these questions Why this tills decrease In S Was It due to casualties dby by accidents accident's and disease or the lie clos dos dosIn closing Ill In ing out of Hocks flocks or the cutting down of their size by hy poultry raisers misers and If the latter why this closing out or culling down Were diseases n and nil especially e parasitic diseases an nn im- im important Im Important Item Serious I Inroads of Parasites In answer to these questions Doc Doc- Doctor Doctor tor Cram cites evidence showing that parasites have hae been making more serl seri serious OtiS nag Inroads on the poultry Industry of the country than Is commonly realized though losses are sometimes difficult to explain until scientific ob- ob observations ob observations fer are made In general sas sa's says Doctor Cram Crom the worm para parasites sites of ot poultry seem to be causing greatly Increased losses to the lie Indus Industry try A In Washington D C for Instance lost 75 ij per cent of or sev sev- several several eral hundred clucks chicks from gapes apes In- In Investigation investigation In Investigation showed showell that this tills loss re- re resulted re resulted from the use of ot one of the paid poul poul ryman's fields for about 24 4 hours as asa asa n a resting place for a lock flock of f turkeys being driven en overland o The chickens became Infested by left lert by bythe the lire turkey flock In addition to pro pro- producing producing the noticeable symptoms of gaping by obstructing tile the windpipe also weaken their victims by sucking blood Tapeworms have haye been ben named as the cause of ot death of GO 50 per cent cert of the chickens In some Maryland nocks flocks There have been heen correspondingly heavy losses of or domestic geese In Ore Ore- Oregon Oregon gon gnu from a closely elated i parasite In addition to causing death tape tape- tapeworms tapeworms tapeworms worms bring about emaciation re- re rei reduced re reduced i egg production and more or orless orless less complete paralysis Worms Kill Turkeys Slender threadlike worms In the crops of ot turkeys were found to have e caused the death of three-fourths three or of orthe the birds hi n a flock if tf OU and the lie sur sur- survivors survivors hors were scarcely worth marketing The gizzard worm one of ot ofa a n general class of roundworms Is also serious been because use It attacks the walls of the gizzard and Interferes with the food grinding function Control measures t tt tl check Inroads of parasites on poultry Hocks flocks sa says s Doctor Cram consist largely In san sanitary san san- equipment and management of flocks In such n way that the life cycle of or parasites Is broken so that Infection tion ion cannot get back to the fowls fO Prompt disposal of or droppings from poultry houses plowing up or scrap scrap- scrapIng scraping ing tog off ofT the top soil of chicken yards the rise of a i system of yards the Judicious use of ot disinfectants and pro sanitary feed feell and water con con- containers are among some of the practical practical practical means of ot prevention pre EY Even o though poultry raising has been highly successful It Is unwise to relax precautions against parasitic foes of poultry By y Increased attention and knowledge the ra a ravages es of parasite enemies ma may be checked and poultry given ghen a n better chance |