PRAIRIE FARMER'S POULTRY BOOK 



avian tuberculosis, being due to environmental adaptation. Nevertheless 

 these types are transferable. A io-wl eats the sputum of a human tuber- 

 cular patient, contracts the disease and dies. A rat eats the fowl, and 

 also contracts the disease and dies. A hog eats the rat, and becomes 

 diseased. Further the rat contaminates food of human beings and farm 

 animals and in that vfa.y communicates disease. A human being drinks 

 the milk of a tubercular cow and in that way becomes infected. Thus 

 the vicious circle is continued. It is an endless chain. English spar- 

 rows, without doubt, are instrumental in communicating this disease. 

 It is evident that it will be a hopeless task to eradicate tuberculosis 

 unless radical measures are taken to destroy the cause. We need clinics 

 on the farm. There should be state-wide campaigns against vermin 

 which harbor and spread the plague. 



Symptoms: Lameness, pale comb, emaciation, bright eye, good ap- 

 petite, tubercles or raised nodules on liver, spleen, intestines, or mesen- 

 tery. A post mortem examination always should be made. 



Treatment: Destroy the entire flock, or if the disease appears to be 

 restricted to a few birds, kill all that are emaciated, and isolate all the 

 others, giving each fowl two drops of tincture of iodine daily in drink- 

 ing water. Tincture of iodine is used effectively in incipient cases of 

 human tuberculosis and should give favorable results with fowls. 

 Renovate and disinfect the buildings and premises, and keep a close 

 watch for new cases. 



Infectious Leukaemia is a blood disease produced by a specific germ 

 known as Bacterium sanguinarium. There is noted a decrease in the 

 red corpuscles' and an increase in the white corpuscles. 



Symptoms: Increased temperature, drowsiness; the heart, intestines 

 and blood are pale. An increased number of leucocytes. 



Treatment: Improved sanitation and a tonic as rciomraended in 

 formula No. 2. (Page 27.) 



Sleeping disease is an affection of the blood caused by a gorm 

 known as Streptococcus capsulatus gallinarum. 



Symptoms: Sleepiness, lameness, swollen eyes, pale comb. 

 Treatment: Improved sanitary conditions, and give a good tonic. 



Vent Gleet, or Cloacitis, is an inflammation of the cloaca, probably 

 produced by a specific germ. It is infectious, being transferred from 

 one fowl to another in copulation. . 



Symptoms: Inflammation of cloaca, white diarrhea, inflamed skin 

 around the vent, foul odor. 



Treatment: Cut away the feathers around the vent and wash with 

 a one per cent solution of creolin. Then make a swab by wrapping 

 cotton around the end of a stick, cover this with iodoform ointment 

 and swab out the cloaca. One treatment will probably effect .a cure. 

 Keep the sick birds in dry comfortable quarters. 



Bacillary White Diarrhea is a disease of chicks produced by a spe- 

 cific germ, Bacterium pullonun. A hen that has had white diarrhea in 

 its early life will transmit the disease through the egg to the chick. 

 The germs of the disease become localized in the ovary, and when the 

 yolks develop the bacteria liccome incorporated in the egg and are thus 



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