Show it T WEATHER AFFECTS POULTRY PEEPING causes vitamin A lack in ration reduces worms i good feeding of poultry during lean income years la Is fully as important Import antas as in years of gond god egg and poultry prices asserts 0 al ferguson extension specia specialist listin tn poultry for the ohio state university shifting about of rations because of dry weather and dry weather itself has raised t 0 o problems with which poultry men ordinarily do not meet ho he says one Is vitamin A deficiency to 10 the ration and the second is the reduction in roundworm infestation absence of green feed and the substitution ution of wheat for yellow corn in the poultry ration may bring about this vitamin deficiency unless vitamin A Is supplied in some other way explains ferguson wheat contain it and yellow corn does docs its lack leads to roup hesayo ha he says to make up for this deficiency in the diet ferguson recommends tile the feeding of alfalfa and soy bean hay bay or alfalfa leaf meal As much hay can be fed ns as the birds will consume but if the leaf meal Is used about 6 to 8 per cent of the ration Is quantity enough he declares Round roundworms worms on account of the hot dry weather are not as numerous numero as usual although the weather pad had little or no effect on tapeworms tape worms ferguson says before starting treatment for worms lie he recommends that a poul tryman get an absolute dlag diagnosis this year treatment for worms Is discussed in fergusons Fergus ons latest bulletin poultry parasites Parn and their control which may be obtained from the office of agricultural publications at 1 the university |