Show cause of heavy death rate of young chicks ninety per cent of the sick and dead chicks received by tho the veterinary dopart department part ment of purdue university during march and april of this year had ba white diarrhea these chicks came from 1000 nocks flocks in most cases tho the letters that accompanied the different lots indicated that the obnere did not suspect the true cause of the th heavy death rate and most moat of them believed that the lie feed was responsible for the loss the name bacillary white diarrhea Is somewhat misleading many poultry men believe that it Is a disease of the In intestines testifies and the sick chicks always show it diarrhea As AB a matter of fact there Is vety very little evidence of bowel trouble either cither in the form of symptoms or lesions tn in tho the most destructive outbreaks and the highly acute cases birds that survive the infection for several days or a week show lesions in the liver ilver lungs heart and intestines the lungs are commonly affected this given rise to difficult or labored breathing and poultry men have frequently ala mla mistaken bacillary white diarrhea for brooder pneumonia a less common disease t |