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Show TURKEY INDUSTRY IS THREATENED Salt Lake, SepL 17 Turkeys now are threatened with a deathly malady. Shoppe &. Odell, owners of the Bonneville Bon-neville ranch in North Salt Lake. hae j reported the loss of about forty fowls, , 1 and Friday submitted two of the dead I birds to Dr. .1. W Trenam, city veterinarian, veter-inarian, and D"r. R. W. Ashley for examination. Unllko the malady playing havoc I with Utah's wild ducks, the nature of I this disease 16 known The scientific , term of the dlseaso is enterohepatltls. j the common name, degeneration of 1 the liver. Drs. Trenam and Ashley found tho livers of the birds to bo In an ulcerated condition. The owners of the ranch, at tho suggestion of the city authorities, will segregate tho ailing fowls from tho healthy ones. The malady is said to l be especially destructive among tho ' young Towls. In Rhode Island several years ago the turkey Industry was almost al-most stamped out by the disease threatening the Industry In Utah. It Is quite likely that tho current malady mal-ady among the Utah turkeys will have its effect on the Thanksglilng price j of the national bird. |