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Show Avoid Quack Cares for flock Diseases Advises Specialist F.y C:ni Frischknect, Poultry Specialist Many poultrmen be-a'ie of an' i::pent desire fit this t;me of the! v-ur to prevert (nid coiurol dis-i res, become the victims of fraud-! ; iiih powerea salesman. Dr. ;7 E. Moskjy, y.n.narian in the ft -ml. cUuj and iu;po'..e;o'e adminis-j traticn of the U'.Vtfd States de-i.artmont de-i.artmont of aariculfjre has called uttention to the fac'- that there are ;en diseases of poultry which, so far as is known, da not yield to treatment with drugs, aril tJl patent pat-ent medicines claiming to be cures i.i .'..:C U:C illegal. The ten diseases of pouliry for which theie are no adequate drug treatments, according to Dr. Mos-key, Mos-key, are: Typhoid, cholera, cocci-diosis, cocci-diosis, foul pest, roupe, uiarrhea and gapes, and blackhead U: turkeys. tur-keys. Some of these can be prevented pre-vented by proper precautionary methods, but once contracted they da not respond to iviug treatment. The false sense of security which likely to result in the spread oi disease through an entire flock an.l those c'ug preparation creates is to delay or prevent the application of suitable scientific methods of control used, said Mr. Moskey. While the federal administration in suppressing such fraudulent remedies which the shipped from one slate to another, it is felt that poultry raisers should be watchful because new preparations making exravagant claims are constantly being plced on the market and buyers buy-ers are defrauded in large numbers before the nostrums can be seized. A recent remedy seized in Oakland, Oak-land, California, that sold to the unsuspecting pouitrymen for $10 was found(go cost the manufacturer manufactur-er but 80 cents per gallon to produce pro-duce and two-thirds of this amount represented the cost of the container. con-tainer. Damage is frequently done by well-meaning people who circulate recipes for reputed cures which are in reality useless. A better plan to follow would be to sees the advice of a well-known authority author-ity who is not engaged in the business busi-ness of salesmanship. Under any condition it it unwise for the pouitrymen poui-trymen of the state to place any confidence in the ciaim made by overzealous salesmen for any drug products, when such claims do not appear on the label. |