Show Y DISEASE IS FOUND IN POULTRY YARDS rotation or cropping will prove helpful by dr robert graham chief in animal pathology college of 0 Arri agriculture culture university of illinois service disease organisms worms and coc cid losis germs which are found JIB in contaminated tamina ted soll soil and constitute tile the greatest menace to poultry production can be controlled only by proper management including the rotation or cropping of poultry yards no medicine will correct the ailments caused by chicken sick 9 ground notwithstanding the claims of remedy venders benders to the contrary all intestinal and parasitic diseases of chickens as well as contagious germs such as coccid losis are spread by the droppings of infected fowls thus the so soil of many poultry yards becomes an incubator or seed bed for the propagation and spread of these diseases to overcome tile development of disease germs poultry mea men who hope to reap a profit from their efforts must rear their chicks on clean ground and plow cultivate and crop the old chicken yards rotation of the poultry range so that it is used but once in every four years is a profitable practice on oa farms where this can call be done in cases where extensive rotation of the poultry range is not possible keeping intile inthe chickens out of the yard until th the ground reground can be plowed and a new seeding gets well started is helpful for summer planting a combination of oats and r rape ape makes a satisfactory mixture an ordinary farm disc is probably the most satisfactory tool too to use in working the poultry yard al though a plow may do just as well the latter implement however tends to bring brin to the surface the contamination which has been plowed under the previous year |