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riii'k«Ms oil affected farms should !»<• disposed of 

 whether they appear to be sound or not. The roci-stin^ 

 place should be thoroughly cleansed, droppings should 

 be collected and disinfected and the entire locality 

 should be disinfected as thoroughly as possible by 

 spraying with carbolic acid solution, saturating the 

 Moors and earth with saturated solutions of copperas 

 and covering the soil with lime. Then, if turkey breed- 

 ing is to be contiriued, fresh stock should be purchased 

 from regions where the disease does not exist cr tur- 

 keys should be hatched under hens and in this way the 

 nucleus of a new and sound tloek may be acquired. 



4. TUliERCULOSIS. 



Tuberculosis, or consumption, is a very commo-n dis 

 ease among people and among several species o-f our 

 domestic animals, particularly cattle and swine. It is 

 also found, although comparatively rarely, among 

 other species of the domestic animals. In some places 

 fowls are frequently found that are afflicted with this 

 disease. For a long time it was thought it might have 

 been acquired thi-ough eating the expectorations of 

 tuberculous animals or man, or feeding upon tuber- 

 culous organs of slaughtered animals, but recent in- 

 vestigations have made it pi-actically certain that tu- 

 berculosis of fowls is not the same disease as tuber- 



