Show A BLACKHEAD AHEAD MOST SERIOUS DISEASE I The name blackhead comes from the fact that the thc head sometimes turns dark color although this Is not an present ever symptom This condition condition con con- frequently affects turkeys and more particularly the young oung than old but In fn rare cases It has been known to affect t chickens For turkeys it isa Is Isa Isa a most serious disease and often oCten makes turkey raising difficult writes Dr George II Conn In the Farm Journal Jour Jour- nal The disease Is caused by the ameba i mela This can cnn be found In the affected birds In the liver and the bowels The disease Is spread by b droppings from affected birds The first symptoms noticed are a dullness and a drooping of ot tile tiie tail tall and wings The feathers are rum ed and the birds become Inactive A yellowish green diarrhea follows together with lack of ot appetite and rapid weakening and loss of flesh Death comes conies in from three i days duys to a n week after the first s symptoms symptoms mp toms al although though In extreme cases the bird may live ten days das Occasionally the thc disease ea e develops dC a n chronic form which will linger Unger on for man many weeks The ver very best sanitary measures measure must be taken Imm immediately Sick birds should be separated from the I well wen birds and the well wen ones put In new quarters Frequently It Is necessary necessary necessary sary to discontinue the thc raising of turkeys turkeys turkeys tur tur- keys for a year or so on an infected farm In securing new birds to start the flock It Is alwa always s 's advisable all to determine determine de de- termine whether or not this condition has been heen present In inthe the thc flock at an any previous lous season Birds from an Infected infected In In- flock should not be sold to other other other oth oth- er breeders Thorough especially of the places where the flocks Hocks roost Is necessary Be careful to see that when feeding and Ind watering the flock Hock everything Is as fiS sanitary as possible Potassium permanganate placed Inthe In Inthe Inthe the drinking water and also dissolved In water and mixed with feed Is a preventive of this disease Use of this I remedy with every hatch of turkeys until they the are arc at least several weeks I old Is worth-while worth insurance against I loss of young oung turkeys s |