Show fading out epidemic A recent survey covering five years of study in fourteen southern california poultry flocks including birds shows a mortality in these flocks running from a minimum of to a maximum of cl 61 per cent tills this report Is very disturbing and would indicate ta that something is radically wrong in t handling breeding stock and birds intended for replacement mortality seems to have been steadily increasing for the past five years in the last two years it has increased 1 SO 0 per cent over the averages ot of 1028 1920 1025 and 1030 1930 the trouble Is known among commercial poultry men as fading out and it has caused the loss ot of thousands of dollars to south 3 low t alsi ern california poultry men this trouble 0 Is not confined to this country english poultry men are complaining ofa of a similar condition los angeles m 50 times wl |