BULLETIN No. 163 AUGUST, 19 15 



MASSACHUSETTS 



BacHlary White Diarrhea (Bacterium 



Puflorum Infection) in Young 



Chicks in Massachusetts 



By G. EDWARD GAGE and BERYL H. PAIGE 



Department of Veterinary Science 



This bulletin presents a brief history of the results of the study 

 of Bacillary White Diarrhea by different investigators, and the 

 discovery of a method of detecting, by means of an agglutination 

 test of their blood, those hens in a flock carrying the infection. 

 It shows that the disease is widely disseminated in Massachusetts, 

 presents the complete records of the agglutination test of a 

 number of breeding flocks, and urges the general adoption of the 

 test as a means of eliminating the disease. 



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Agricultural Experiment Station, 



Amherst, Mass. 



