Show Keep Poultry Yards Clean and Sanitary Parasites Undermine Health and Sap Vigor of Birds Prepared w by tho United States tu ll Department or Care Cure exercised In keeping poultry yards ar s clean and In n sanitary con condition has n a double function flock clear of ot la In keepIng Pl the parasites that un undermine the health and sap th the vigor of the birds The injury by mites lice fleas and other parasitic organisms is some some- times sometimes times obvious but It also happens that some somo Insects and other small creatures are carriers or intermediate hosts of some of the Internal para para- sItes parasites of poultry specialIsts For example accor according to special special- In the United States Department of roundworm worm Agriculture one variety of round round- worm must develop for tor one stage of Its life lire outside the poultry It affects The roun roundworm worm lays its eggs within the chicken and they are eliminated In the droppings They will not ma ma- ture mature If It picked up by a 11 fowl They do mature If It n water flea picks up the eggs Then If a hen takes In the wa- wa wa ter water flea flen with her drinking water the worn worn round parasite of the flea de- de develops de develops Clops Into a poultry p parasite Many similar examples are known and others ore are suspected The grass grass- hopper grasshopper for Instance has recently been shown Important to transmit at least one tant tont parasite of domestic poultry Sanitation and cleanliness which prevents such Insects from having ac- ac access ac access cess ac cess to the droppings may lOay thus break a cycle through wl which ch Infestation I reaches the flock The Insects In I themselves may not be harmful to poultry but If they have had an op- op opportunity opportunity op opportunity to feed on contaminated droppings they may be the means menns of spreading these particular parasites I I |