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Show TEST FOR WHITE DIARRHEA Chicks Too Small for Market, of Slow Growth and Feathering Might Well Be Killed Off. If you have chicks now coming on old enough to be on the market, and yet too small for such purpose, runts of slow growth and slow feathering you might just as well kill them off and not hope they will yet take a start, for no doubt but they are carrying the germs of bacillary white diarrhea. Not all by any means that take this disease show the bowel looseness. Flocks suspected of having members mem-bers in it infected with this disease are now. being tested for it by the Connecticut agricultural college. The testing is done by a little blood being drawn from a vein In one ' wing of each fowl. This blood Is mixed with a serum to be put by for a few days. The mixture is labeled, and the fowl is given same label. In a few days the eye, without need of a micro icopei. tells whether this serum and blood mixture shows any trace or the disease. |