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THE AUTOMATIC INCUBATOR COMPANY 
Est. 1912 Dept. 12 Delaware, Ohio 
SMASH HATCHING COSTS! 
Petaluma Incubators 
and Brooders 
will smash your hatching costs 
to smithereens and will give you 
bigger hatches of larger, better, 
“peppier” chicks. 
Petaluma Incubators of 504-egg ca¬ 
pacity are made both in Hot Water 
and Electric Types. They require ab¬ 
solutely no attention! You just turn 
the eggs. Corrugated, galvanized steel 
trays make this simple and easy. 
Petaluma Incubators are made of 1 
wormproof California redwood—double 
walled, with double glass and dead air 
space doors that open down to floor to 
make cleaning easy. They are made in 
interchangeable standard units of 126- 
egg capacity, which can be converted 
from Hot Water to Electric quickly and- 
at nominal expense. Nursery is con¬ 
veniently arranged to let chicks drop 
out of way of others hatching. Pure, 
warm, fresh, vitalized air surrounds 
eggs at all times. 
In Hot Water Petaluma Incubators 
improved thermostatic controls positively 
regulate the warmth of the incubator 
and the flame of the lamp. 
Electric Petaluma Incubators attach 
to any lamp socket. What they save in 
time, money and work and in the pro¬ 
duction of healthier, sturdier chicks 
more than makes up the difference be¬ 
tween cost of current (whatever your 
rate) and oil, besides entirely removing 
fire hazard. 
Order direct or through your hard¬ 
ware dealer. Write for Illustrated 
Booklet H-6. 
Petaluma Electric Incubator Co. 
Petaluma, California 
WHY EXPERIMENT? 
I BUY PETALUMA INCUBATORS! 
Cost Only $4.96, Complete 
In an hour you can make a better brooder than 
you can buy. No tools needed but saw and ham¬ 
mer. It will do the work of 4 old hens and do it 
better. The materials, including heater, cost|4 96. 
I want you to try my Brooder and will send you 
for making it, together with a PHtnain Brooder H 
for $4.75 ; all postpaid. Try the Brooder out and i 
don’t eay its the best Brooder you ever used, retui 
Heater in 30 days and get your money buck. Your i 
will make you the same offer and guarantee. Ask 
but if he does not carry the Brooder Heater, send me 
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INLAND POULTRY JOURNAL,Deptj 50 v Indianapolis,ln(L 
Diagnosis and Treatment of Poultry 
Diseases in New York 
Part II 
Bacillary White Diarrhoea —Bacil¬ 
lary white diarrhoea is an acute, highly 
fatal, contagious disease of young chicks, 
caused by the Bacterium pullorum. It is 
characterized by a white pasty diar¬ 
rhoea and a heavy mortality. Chicks are 
most susceptible within the first 48 hours 
after hatching. Mature fowls are very 
resistant to infection, hut outbreaks, 
causing heavy mortality, do occur. The 
lesions in young chicks are congested 
liver, spleen and kidneys, and an unab¬ 
sorbed yolk sac. Birds that recover often 
carry the germs in their ovaries or tes¬ 
ticles. Ova of hens carrying the Bas- 
terium pullorum are misshapen and often 
dark in color. It is spread mainly by 
hatching chicks from hens which are har¬ 
boring the germ in their ovaries. It is 
also spread by contaminated incubators 
and brooders and by the male bird. Diag¬ 
nosis is made by finding the Bacterium 
pullorum microscopically. Chicks that 
have been overheated or chilled in the 
brooder, or hatched from eggs that are 
chilled or overheated in the incubator, 
show symptoms very similar to chicks 
affected with bacillary white diarrhoea. 
Treatment is very unsatisfactory. Five 
grains of a sulphocarbolate compound to 
each pint of drink seems to give some 
benefit. Prevention consists in eliminat¬ 
ing the carriers by either the agglutina¬ 
tion test or the intradermal test. The 
first consists of drawing a small amount 
of blood from the wing vein and sending 
it to a laboratory where dilution of 1-100 
and 1-200 are made with a suspension of 
Bacterium pullorum. 
The Intradermal Test. — Several 
strains of Bacterium pullorum are grown 
.in bouillon at a temperature of 37.0° C. 
for 30 days. The product is then concen¬ 
trated to one-fifth of its original volume 
over a water bath, and filtered through 
filter paper, which has been sterilized by 
soaking in a 5 per cent solution of car¬ 
bolic acid, into a sterilized flask. A suf¬ 
ficient amount of carbolic acid is then 
added to form a .5 per cent solution for 
preserving purposes. It is then bottled 
in sterile bottles and corked with sterile 
corks. A small amount of the fluid is in-, 
jected into the lower part of one of the 
wattles with a fine hypodermic, 20 or 22 
gauge needle. One mil (c.c.) usually 
contains 10 to 15 doses. Readings are 
taken 24 to 30 hours after the injection is 
made. All edematous swellings are con¬ 
sidered positive reactions. The swelling 
may be very large or may be so small 
that it can only be detected by palpita¬ 
tion and comparison with the other wat¬ 
tle. No disinfectants are employed on 
the wattle in healthy flocks. 
Worms. —It is possible to treat poultry 
successfully for most intestinal worms, 
but it is not possible to get rid of all 
kinds of them with any one treatment. 
There are several different kinds of in¬ 
testinal worms, and there is a specific 
treatment for each kind. It is not usual¬ 
ly wise to try two treatments at the same 
time, but better to rid the birds of one 
parasite before attempting to treat them 
for another. 
Common Round Worms. —The com¬ 
mon round worms are white or yellowish 
white cylindrical worms, pointed at both 
ends and varying in length from l 1 /^ to 
4 y 2 inches. The largest numbers are 
found in the floating part of the small in¬ 
testine. A few worms apparently do no 
harm, but when present in large numbers 
young chicks develop slowly, are poor, un¬ 
thrifty and appear dull. Some of the 
affected birds may die. Adult birds are 
unthrifty, have a low egg yield, or may 
not lay at all if heavily infested. The 
best treatment for the common round 
worm is the tobacco dust treatment. The 
most satisfactory way of using this is to 
mix 2 lbs. of finely powdered tobacco, dust 
with each 100 lbs. of dry mash which is 
normally fed to the birds. Only enough 
for three or four days should be mixed at 
a time, as the nicotine in the tobacco de¬ 
teriorates on exposure to the air. The 
tobacco dust should be analyzed and 
should contain 1% to 2 per cent nicotine, 
and should be kept in a closed container. 
Feed the tobacco mixture for at least 
three weeks. The birds do not need to 
he starved before feeding, nor do they 
need a purgative with the tobacco dust 
treatment. 
Tapeworms. — Tapeworms are flat, 
segmented worms, varying in length from 
1/16 of an inch to 10 inches. There are 
several different kinds common in fowls 
in this country, and they are found in the 
small intestines. The symptoms are sim¬ 
ilar to those seen with the round worms. 
A treatment that has seemed to give very 
good results with tapeworm infestation is 
as follows: Mix 1 oz. of powdered crude 
kamala in a dry or moist mash for each 
25 birds. The birds should be starved 
the night before and the mash fed the 
next morning. This treatment does not 
need to be followed by Epsom salts or 
any purgative. All droppings should be 
removed to a place where the birds can¬ 
not get them. Poultry yards should be 
plowed annually, and the chicks should be 
reared on new ground where possible, or 
a double yards system provided. 
J. W. FULLER, 
“So you have been married before, 
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-and if it pleases ’even to take this one, 
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the 
BROODER 
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