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Show POULTRY EKTS TO PREVENT LOSS -FROM ROUND WORMS How Poultry Pests May Be Combated. (Br C. M. FERGUSON, Poultry Extemloa-Specialist, Extemloa-Specialist, Ohio State University. WNU Service.) Costly losses from troublesome round worms that sap vitality and produce runts in the poultry flock may be prevented by taking three simple, precautions. The first step in protecting pro-tecting the chick crop against round worms is complete isolation of the chicks from the adult birds. This is most easily accomplished by keeping the laying flock either confined to the-laying the-laying house or confined to a limited range. It may also be done by brooding brood-ing the chicks on ground which has not been used for poultry or where poultry manure has not been spread' ' for at least two years, and where the H adult birds cannot come in contact with the chicks. The second step is to take precautions precau-tions in preventing the carrying of Infective material on the shoes, buckets and equipment when the poul-tryman poul-tryman is walking from the laying, house to the brooding quarters. Frequent cleaning of the poultry buildings and the removal of manure-to manure-to some distant field where it should be spread thinly is the third step in controlling this dreaded pest of the-farm the-farm flock. If this is not practical, a manure pit constructed to keep out the flies, insects, and rodents will not . only aid in the prevention of round' worm infestation, but will also tend' to prevent the spread of tape worms from adult birds to the growing chicks. |