Show FOWL POX QUITE SERIOUS DISEASE carried by common variety of garden mosquitoes Is not chicken in chickens awl pox crp rowl pox appears aled by mosquitoes as arty nodules or lesions on the of the beads comb wattles and skin of fols he says and causes a decad ed lessening of egg laying in serious cases it kills spiking from the cornel university adio station professor states that the cause of the disease Is unknown investigations institute of medlia at the rockefeller research and at conell con ell show that the disease Is carried by mosquitoes be contracted in any whether 1 may other way has not yet been deter mined other bloodsucking insects besides marsh mosquitoes and the common garden variety of early spring mosquitoes that hatch in april and live all summer may carry the disease from infected poultry to the healthy ones apparently a mosquito which has become infected will con dinue to be a spreader of the disease throughout her natural life the male mosquito Is of course harmless due to the heavy losses that result from fowl pox a reasonable precaution Is to use up to date methods to prevent mosquitoes from breeding in the vicinity of poultry plants alon against epidemics of the can be assured by hut this ts expensive for the commercial poul tryman considering the present price for eggs management of turkeys not well understood turkey management problems are probably as little understood by the average as are any of the problems connected with any of the domestic fowls this Is especially true fiort the time the boults are hatched until they reach a marketable age during which time they must be carried through the summer in a man ner that will enable them to reach the market in favorable season the first problem Is that of brood ing the boults many investigators have found that turkeys can be raised with greater success in confinement than on unlimited range especially where chickens have been raised on the same farm chickens are susceptible to the worm which Is host to the blackhead germ which n turn Is the greatest single cause of turkey losses because of this good management demands that boults be raised on fresh ground and away from old turkey or chicken yards or runs the nebraska station gives some very valuable pointers on production boults will thrive best if not overcrowded one square foot of brooder space per Is recommend ed units of over are not becom mended except for those who have hid considerable brooding experience powdered skim milk Is fine for laying flocks powdered skim milk has given such good account in the rations of dairy calves that Is use might well be in creased in the rations of laving hen flocks it makes a valuable protein constituent of the laying ansh it may well take part or all of the place of meat scrap the cornell alty laying mash Is composed of pounds each of wheat bran wheat yellow corn meal ground heavy oats and meat scrap plus three pounds of salt and 1 per cent cod liver oil it no liquid skim milk Is fed one may well substitute pounds of the powdered skim milk for the pounds of meat scrap where one has the liquid skim milk available from the separator on the farm it could well he used as the only source of drink in which case the meat meal of the mash mixture coul be reduced one half grain for a hen the amount of grain a hen will eat dally will depend upon the quantity of other feed such as noshea or table scrap that Is available the birds should get just what they will clean up nicely without leaving any in the around bone ls awl tor hens h it not fed in excess about hilf an ounce per bird per day Is sufficient authorities do not recommend warm S ens it Is preferable rereading ellk t become sour b keep houses clean the removal litter and jeanure Is more commonly the rule autust S S august really la very am pan t belv hi alte tr he anu has painted or sp ped with an efreb coal tar preparation within six mont he mites should not bother K Kr kra 0 |