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Show PROTECTS PULLETS AGAINST DISEASE Layers Should Be Prepared Pre-pared to Battle Winter. Now is the time to grade the pullets pul-lets in your flock and select the birds you will keep for permanent winter producers, suggests L. E. Weaver of the state college of agriculture. ag-riculture. Professor Weaver says that a pullet pul-let to be best fitted for her winter's win-ter's work should be of good size, which Is a result of a combination of proper breeding and good feeding. feed-ing. She should be well-fleshed, heavy and moderately fat, a condition condi-tion reached by having free access to both grain and a first-class milk-mash milk-mash on range, an abundance of tender green stuff, clean water, and airy roosting quarters, unihfested with mites. The pullet, he says, should be free of all parasites, both external and Internal. Infested birds can be freed of body lice and ordinary round worms but, he points out, no known drug or treatment will entirely en-tirely overcome the more serious tapeworms and chronic coccidiosis. The birds should also be protected protect-ed against the two most common infectious diseases, fowl pox and infectious laryngotrachetis, or bronchitis, bron-chitis, he advises. On farms where one of these troubles appeared last year, the pullets should be vaccinated. |
