| Show BEST TO II CUT OUT HENS Safest Method Is to Raise New Flock It Is generally conceded that the fowl towI tuberculosis germ Is not carried carried car car- ried ned In the eggs s. and therefore eggs egg are perfectly safe to use even though the hens bens laying them are In Inthe Inthe the earlier stages of the disease The tuberculosis germ germ Is one that thatIs Is quickly killed by heat hence cooking co would destroy such germs even If they were present We doubt douht If it 1 It Is la advisable to keep a n lock flock of ot flens' flens hens having tub tuberculosis tuberculosis tuber tuber- r- r to any considerable c. c extent nt A Avian inn or fowl tuberculosis affects chIen chiefly the liver II and other digestive organs The disease Is communicated nl- nl Gated by food or water inter contaminated ed by bowel howel discharges hence when a n large number have the disease disease dis dis- ease keeping the healthy looking fowls Cowls usually means perpetuation perpetuation- n of the disease for one by one those that have the germs In them will reach the consumptive stage and scatter more Infection If you want to keep pullets or healthy looking young hens you OU should confine them to a yard that can easily be made mado safe by changing changing- th the top soil soli Let the of of the range begin at once There Is a n tuberculin test by by- which the disease can be bl weeded out of a flock In the course course of two or three years ears but unless the flock is a n valuable one the better plan Is to change completely beginning beginning beginning be be- ginning with chicks and raising them on clean ground Nebraska Nebraska r Farmer |
