Show FA R M MUCH TURKEY LOSS DUE TO BLACKHEAD A large part ot of the turkey losses seem beera to be due to blackhead black licud various medicines have been recommended for tills disease and recently tile ipecac treatment has received a great deal of publicity in elopes eliat it might bu bo tle long sought sough tf for cure up to the present time thile I 1 can call locate no cases case in our section where the ipecac treatment lias has given ghen results good enough to prove that dial it la Is definitely beneficial says a writer in the indiana partners Fan ners guide C ulde tills this being the case 1 feel that turkey breeders bleeders bre eders must still rely on the old methods of preventing disease und and not depend upon medicines inbreeding be avoided as it often results in ili weak boults which are subject to a disease like blackhead breeding from mature stock seems to produce more resistant boults than those fron frodi young breeding stock turkeys that range with farm poultry of nil all kinds seem more apt to have blackhead black licad its as they aro are often scratch ing in tile the dirt of the other birds plenty of sour milk lit in the turkey ration deenis to licup the boults to resist blackhead the sour milk Is not a cure hut but it does stimulate a n rapid vigorous growth and this in to keep keel down digestive disorders which might weaken the boults and make inake them subject to blackhead black hend it Is difficult to raise boults on land hind where blackhead has been prevalent ind some breeders bleeders bre eders have cleaned up tip weir premises by ceasing to raise tur ineys for a year or two then they obtain clean breeding stock and have better success at present there ore ol 01 r e ninny many farmers who might have good success with turkeys because none of 0 the birds have ranged on their farm for live five or ten years or more and the soll eoll Is probably entirely free from the disease |