Show r 19 IL a B ROOSTERS SPREAD POULTRY DISEASE more cases of bacillary white diarrhea noticed male birds help to spread bacillary white diarrhea among poultry although the disease does spread without males male according to the new york state cot college of veterinary science at cornell un university until recently the cause of the spread of this disease among mature chickens has been unsolved experiments ments were conducted in which pens were made up of infected and non in fectea hens cock birds were placed in some of the pens and others were maintained without males A period of months was ans necessary before any evidence of this dissemination was seen bacillary white diarrhea has been found to be the most widespread and se serious alous disease of baby chicks to assist poultry men to control the dJ disease sease the veterinary college has encouraged local veterinarians to establish laboratories ora which are maintained under its supervision these laboratories are located in erie orange sego and greene counties long island also has a number of similar laboratories conducted on oil the same plan although testing under this plan has been in operation only one year up state and two years on long island nearly locks flocks have been handled approximately chickens have been tested and progress is being made in lowering the amount of infection io in these hocks flocks and in dec decreasing rensing the chick mortality due to this disease |