Show clean ground essential for turkey success recent findings have shown that the organism which causes blackhead in turkeys lives in the soil consequently if turkeys are raised on contaminated tamina ted soil they can hardly escape the disease the danger will to a large lame extent be averted it if a three year rotation rot aaion Is followed experimental findings have shown that the cecal worm found in chickens Is a menace to the turkey it Is believed that if the young turkeys are affected with cecal worms worms the injury they do to the lining of the intestinal walls is sufficient to permit the entrance of blackhead organisms into the blood stream thus infecting the tha bird with the incurable disease and the one most dreaded by turkey breed ers the remedy therefore is to keep the young turkeys on clean ground round and entirely separate from chickens 1 |