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I It THI DKHJtZT FARMER Saturday, july i? 1909
S.J.STOOKEY.Prcs, C.G.PATTERSON, Sec. C. FRANK EMERY. Trcas. M
I I Wasatch Produce Co. t
I INCORPORATED M
I 64 Richards St Salt Lake City J
I Successors to f
I Brook Ranch Com. Co.
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H 1908-09 Winners In Omaha, Fremont, Lincoln and Salt Lake City
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m GraaUst Laying Strains In the VnrW StatM
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1 bSt ' jPJUyr 068 . 1ST SOUTH, ALT LAKE CITY
FOR QUICK SALE, F.O.B. HERE i
a Mandy Lee Brooders at $10.00 each, cost $15.00 each. B
2 Mandy Lee Secondary Brooders at $4,00 each cost $8.00 each. m
These are good as new, but changing my brooding system. M
WHITE LEGHORNS THAT LAY- 1
Because they can't help it; they are bred so. m
STOCK AND EGGS FOR SALE. 1
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1224 Bait 7 South Sttcc SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH f
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BLACKHEAD IN TURKEYS
Under favorable condition 5 turkey
raising has proven to be a vc v pro
fitable industry. Young tutKcyi. ore
however, very dc'icatc and require
a great deal of care, .in ! destructive
diseases sometimes appear 1 sirh :m
extent as to discourag the raising f
turkeys. Among the most destruct
ive of turkey diseases, attacking oM
and young, is the so-called b'ackhcad
This disease has for several years pa.t
menaced the formerly profitable and
highly developed tiiikcy industry of
this country, and 's r.i n'dly deput
ing Southern and West-- 1 flocks.
The name blackhcaJ is derived
from the fact that Mie ltuads of di?
cased turkeys frequent turn black,
although it his ben u..-cwred thai
few young pou'U nave black heads
when they di., ana thai many old
turkeys do nor. The biack appear
ance of the head, therefor.', th"tioi
common, has no nccess'i cy rc'ation
to the- blackhead disease. Turkeys
dying of other diseases may alio
have the head turn black.
The scat of the disease lias been
shown to be in the liver and in the
blind intestine. In the former it is
recognizable by disco'orations often
more or less circular or even quite
irregular in form, and often present
ing a yellowish appearance. In the
blind intestine the disease is accom
panied by great enlargement and the
formation of largo sores. When the
disease in the intestine is slight it is
doubtful if the affected anima's have
diarrhea, which is more or less pre
sent in other cases. In many of the
older poults the droppings will be
liquid, and stained orange yellow;
this is the most characteristic symp
tom of all. Sometimes there arc
blackened blood clots in the drop
pings, indicating s'ight hemorrhages1.
The majority of young poults die af
ter a day or two of droopiness. Ad
ults may droop longer and p" .... into
chronic stages of the disease. Re
fusal to cat and standing apart con
stitute late symptoms.
The disease . is not transmitted
through the egg, and while ordinary
fowls (hens, guineas, pheasants, etc)
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rarely die of the disease, they carry
and distribute the disease. By re- j
moving the turkey eggs three or four
days before hatching, wiping them
with a cloth moistened with go per
cent alcohol, finishing the incubation
in a machine keeping the poults for
a few weeks on a disinfected boaiM
floor, and placing them in- a .location
remote from ordinary fowl, the loss
es by blackhead disease prior to
reaching maturity may be reduced'
from a minimum of 80 per cent to 4
from 15 to 20 per cent.
This sh6ws that the turkeys must
be kept away from ordinary fowl us
much as' possib'c, and in view of the
tendency of partially wild turkeys to
roam and Tcmain at a considcrabk
distance from the farm buildings, ;t
is possible that the supposed benefit
from introducing wild blood is thus
partial'y explained, and that it is not
due to greater immunity of the wild
birds. F--
As the parasites seem to be easily I
killed by drying, dry sandy soils 1
wou'd seem to be preferable for turk- 1
ey rearing, and it is clear that turk-
cys should be reared away from the
house and be kept from all fields
where ordinary fowl arc likely to '
forage.
Older turkeys apparently resist the
disease bettor than very young, but j
no breed of turkeys thus far tested is
immune to the blackhead disease, for
all of them, at a'l ages, so far trie!
have died of it.
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The destructive character, of this j
disease and the case with which it
may be distributed suggests that
great care should be exercised not to
carry turkeys from regions where the
disease pevails into regions where ir
docs not exist.
POULTRY SHOW.
Seattle. In additoin to the Live
stock exhibition to be held at the
A'ask'n-YukonnExpositoion, Septem
ber 27th to October 9th, and in con
nection therewith, will be held on.:
of the largest Poultry shows ever
contemplated in the VVoat. A com
prehensive premium list isnow ready
for distribution, giving a complete
