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Good sanitary conditions, isolation of the well from the sick fowls 
and thorough disinfection seem to be the most satisfactory procedure. 
It is important not to introduce the disease with newly purchased 
fowls, or to expose healthy ones to the disease either at or in trans- 
portation to various poultry exhibits. 
Control. Fowl! cholera is a reportable disease in Germany, Austria 
and Hungary. In those countries the infected premises are quaran- 
tined against traffic in fowls. The infected places should be thor- 
oughly disinfected. Care should be taken not to introduce infected 
fowls into healthy flocks. The fowls that appear to be sound but 
which are in either the period of incubation or have recovered from 
the disease are very liable to spread the infection. 
J REFERENCES 
1. Haviey. Fowl cholera and methods of combatingit. Bulletin 144, R. I. Agr. 
Exp. Station, 1910. 
2. Hicerns. Notes upon an epidemic of fowl cholera and upon the comparative 
production of acid by allied bacteria. Jour. of Experimental Medicine, Vol. III (1898), 
p. 651. 
3. Kirr. Die pone alpine gegen Gefliigelcholera. Monatshefte fiir praktische 
Tierheilk., Vol. XVI (1904), S 
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vulgairement choléra des poules. Ibid. Vol. XC (1880), p. 239. 
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Station, 1904. 
GOOSE SEPTICEMIA 
Characterization. The disease is an acute septicemia causing the 
death of the infected goose in a few hours after there are evidences of 
sickness. 
History. In 1902, Curtice described this disease as causing con- 
siderable loss in Rhode Island. The following note by T. Smith, 
dated October 31, 1900, quoted by Curtice, is significant in explaining 
the condition under which the disease appeared. 
“Geese born in April and May and collected during the summer and fall for fattening, 
kept in open yards, crowded together but able to move about; about 500 in a pen. 
Fed on a mixture of corn meal and meat and beef scraps. Epidemic began in mid- 
summer. Deaths up to twenty a day (one workman says sixty one day); about 3,000 
lost to date.” 
