Show FOWL POX QUITE SERIOUS DISEASE carried by common variety of garden mosquitoes fowl pox pos tn in chickens Is not chicken pox according to prof robert math eson of the new york state college of agriculture who explains that this troublesome poultry disease Is 13 curried c r by mosquitoes fowl pox appears as warty nodules or lesions on the comb wattles and skin of 0 the heads of fowls lie he says and causes a decided lessening of egg laying in more serious cases it kills from the corne 11 university adlo station atlon et professor matheson states that while the flo cause of at the ilia disease Is unknown investigations at the rockefeller institute of medical research and at correll cornell show that the disease Is carried by mosquitoes whether it may bo be contracted in any other way has not yet been deter mined other bloodsucking blood sucking insects besides marsh mosquitoes and the cornmon garden variety of early spring mosquitoes that hatch in april and live all summer nimer may carry the disease from infected poultry to the healthy ones apparently a mosquito which has become infected will continue to be a spreader of the disease throughout her natural life the male mosquito is of course harmless due to the heavy losses that result from fowl pox a reasonable precaution la Is to uso use up to date methods to mosquitoes from breeding in the vicinity of poultry plants Im immunize tion against epidemics of the disease can be assured by vaccina vaccinator ton but this is expensive for tor the commercial pout poul try trainan inan considering the present price for eggs |