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Show VACCINATION WILL CHECK POX LOSSES Plan Recommended to Owners Own-ers of Diseased Flocks. Vaccinating young chickens against chicken pox la now a proven way for farmers to protect the cash Income In-come from poultry, according to the laboratory of animal pathology and hygiene. College of Agriculture, University Uni-versity of Illinois. Poultry and eggs now bring in about 11 per cent of the cash income of Illinois farmers, farm-ers, but the total would be even higher were it not for the Inroads of chicken pox and other barriers to the production of high quality products, it was pointed out The disease also is known as canker sore mouth or avian diphtheria. Routine vaccination is recom mended to all owners of flocks on infected in-fected premises as a result of a two years' study by the laboratory. Either fowl pox or pigeon pox vac; cine can be used. It was demonstrated demon-strated that there Is no danger of causing chicken pox by using pigeon pox vaccine. Occasionally, however, serious results follow the use of fowl pox vaccine. It also was found that unhealthy flocks are not good subjects for Immunization with pigeon pox vaccine. Complete protection pro-tection was not established in all flocks vaccinated with the pigeon box product in 1932, but In general gen-eral the results were satisfactory. Vaccination should be restricted to flocks in which the disease occurred oc-curred during the previous year. All fowls vaccinated with fowl pox vaccine vac-cine should be placed In voluntary quarantine for two months. Chickens Chick-ens suffering from any other disease should not be vaccinated. |