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Show Serosal Treatment Aids Poultry Respiratory Diseases One of the newest wrinkles in , aerosol products for agriculture I is a handy little push-button can with which the poultryman can treat his flock for chronic respiratory respir-atory disease by spraying a film mist of a product containing streptamycin. One of the first products of this type on the market is an aerosol unit containing sufficient spray to treat 100 birds during a 30 second discharge. The mist from the can is sprayed into the poultry house above the chickens, chick-ens, then settles slowly to the level where it is inhaled by the birds. As in most aerosol containers, con-tainers, "Freon" flourished hydrocarbon hydro-carbon which are non-flamable and create no toxic problem are used as propellants to force the spray out through the nozzle at the touch of the valve button. Poultry research during recent re-cent years has shown that several sev-eral antibiotics, including streptomycin, strep-tomycin, will stimulate the appetite ap-petite and help control infections infec-tions of chronic respiratory disease, di-sease, one of the country's major ma-jor poultry problems, particularly in cold damp weather. The operator should be sure to wear a mask to avoid inhalation of the fumes himself. Night is recommended to do the spraying, spray-ing, letting the poultry remain in the area. |