Show T turkey bricey business dusi 0 ness 0 1 1 T T on m stable basl rocia s heretofore industry has been regarded as side issue and gamble prepared by the united states state department of agriculture I 1 turkey ra raising of ising in the united states has been regarded aa a side issue end and a gamble but increasing Inc rensing knowledge of paras itle diseases find and their control la Is putting the industry on st a more stable basis says A R lee poultry husband man of the united states deportment department of agriculture there are now more then than three and a half ball million turkeys on farms in III this country and they constitute 1 per cent of sill all poultry the 1029 1929 crop of market turkeys indicated a decided advance in the business as compared with 1028 28 the e estimated increase Inc rense was about 0 per cent information needed in recognition of the increased interest in III turkeys and the need for further information concerning parasitic discuses the united states department part ment of agriculture hits has established a foundation flock of turkeys at the united states range experiment station at nilles miles city mont this work got under way last spring of COO birds raised last season BOO were selected for the breeding flocks ever ett B E wehr a research worker Is devoting all ills his time to the investigation of parasitic diseases the work at ai this station will also include a study of the comparative cost cast of raising turkeys in confinement and on free range the lock flock was established by purchasing h ing hatching eggs which were incubated eted aut artificially the young birds were broaded brooded bro oiled in III special brooder houses yarda until they were about eight weeks old the investigators took these precautions to prevent infestations fe of the boults by such parasites as are introduced by adult turkeys when large enough to range the young boults were provided provide with large fenced lots and inexpensive shelters for ro modern improvements modern improvements in III mechanical means of hatching and brooding enve done much to develop the turkey industry mr lee says day old boults are now produced by commercial hatcheries and shipped by parcel post in much the some same anner as baby chicks artificial brooding has been of particular value in ID preventing losses from blackhead disease which nt at one time threatened to destroy the industry research workers have determined that this disease Is 13 cause caused by a parasite which cannot live long in soil so I 1 1 but which may be transmitted in the egg of another tile the worm the blockhead parasite survives for long periods period in the worm egg As both turkeys and chickens may have blackhead usually in a chronic form in mature birds and as blib both may also have cocain worms prevention of tile the acute destructive form of blackhead in young tur turkeys leys calls for rearing on clean ground away fron froin chi chickens chens and older turkeys |