Show milk powder remedy for little chick diseases milk powder Is the remedy for the disease of which for years lias has taken its annual toll of baby chicks according to the att experimental peri mental work conducted at the california agricultural experiment station the results of the investigation recommend the feeding or a ration to baby chicks which contains 40 per cent of dry skim milk the investigators say bay the fact that feeding chickens i ma sh containing cont ahling 40 per cent dry skim milk not only protected protect led them against Infect infection lon but also stimulated rapid growth indicates that this would be a valuable practice in the prevention and control of outbreaks of the disease on poultry farms two pens of chicks fed in the experiment peri perl ment were inoculated with the germ of of those which did not get dry milk in their mash mach per cent died of those which did got get dry milk only 23 per cent died it was found that chicks fed powdered dry milk produced 25 per cent faster growth than those which were not so fed |