American Agriculturist, iviarcn I'M 
White Diarrhea 
Remarkable Experience of Mrs. 
C. M. Bradshaw in Prevent¬ 
ing White Diarrhea 
The following letter will no doubt be 
of utmost interest to poultry raisers who 
have had serious losses from White Diar¬ 
rhea. We will let Mrs. Bradshaw tell of 
her experience in her own words: 
“Gentlemen: I see reports of so many 
losing their little chicks with White 
Diarrhea, so thought I would tell my 
experience. I used to lose a great many 
from this cause, tried many remedies and 
was about discouraged. As a last resort 
I sent to the Walker Remedy Co., Dept. 
430, Waterloo, Iowa, for their Walko 
White Diarrhea Remedy. I used two 50c 
packages, raised 300 White Wyandottes 
and never lost one or had one sick after 
giving the medicine and my chickens are 
larger and healthier than ever before. 
I have found this company thoroughly 
reliable and always get the remedy by 
return mail.—Mrs. C. M. Bradshaw, 
Beaconsfield, Iowa.” 
Cause of White Diarrhea 
"White Diarrhea is caused by the Ba¬ 
cillus Bacterium Pullorum. This germ 
is transmitted to the baby chick through 
the yolk of the newly hatched egg. 
Readers are warned to beware of White 
Diarrhea. Don’t wait until it kills half 
your chicks. Take the “stitch in time 
that saves nine.” Remember, there is 
scarcely a hatch without some infected 
chicks. Don’t let these few infect your 
entire flock. Prevent it. Give Walko 
in all drinking water for the first two 
weeks and you won’t lose one chick where 
you lost hundreds before. These letters 
prove it: 
Never Lost a Single Chick 
Mrs. L. L. Tam, Burnetts Creek, Ind., 
writes: “I have lost my share of chicks 
from White Diarrhea. Finally I sent for 
two packages of Walko. I raised over 500 
chicks and I never lost a single chick from 
White Diarrhea. Walko not only prevents 
White Diarrhea, but it gives the chicks strength 
and vigor; they develop quicker and feather 
earlier.” 
Never Lost One After First Dose 
Mrs. Ethel Rhoades, Shennandoah, 
Iowa, writes: “My first incubator 
chicks, when but a few days old, began 
to die by the dozens with White Diarrhea. 
I tried different remedies and was about 
discouraged with the chicken business. Finally, 
I sent to the Walker Remedy Co., Waterloo, 
Iowa, for a box of their Walko White Diarrhea 
Remedy. It’s just the only thing for this terrible 
disease. We raised 700 thrifty, healthy chicks 
and never lost a single chick after the first dose.” 
You Run No Risk 
We will send Walko White Diarrhea 
Remedy entirely at our risk—postage 
prepaid—so you can see for yourself 
what a wonder-working remedy it is for 
white Diarrhea in baby chicks’. So you 
can prove—as thousands have proven— 
that it will stop your losses and double, 
treble, even quadruple your profits. Send 
50c for a box of Walko, or $1.00 for extra 
large box—give it in all drinking water for the 
first two weeks and watch results. You'll find 
you won’t lose one chick where you lost hundreds 
before. It’s a positive fact. We guarantee it. 
The Leavitt & Johnson National Bank, the 
oldest and strongest bank in Waterloo, Iowa, 
stands back of this guarantee. You run no risk. 
If you don’t find it the greatest little chick saver 
you ever used, your money mil be instantly 
refunded. 
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STARTING THE CHICKS 
ON THEIR WAY 
W. E. Farver 
TT IS true that the hen will always 
-*■ retain her place as a means of brood¬ 
ing yet the brooder furnishes a means of 
doing the work so much more easily with 
less cost and rather more certainty. 
It is good policy to leave chicks in the 
incubator till the last chick has dried off. 
This really is soon enough to remove 
them. Oftentimes the front of the in¬ 
cubator is darkened and the heat gradu¬ 
ally reduced to the heat of the brooder 
which is to receive them. Just at this 
time is a very critical point. Any chilling 
at this time may produce a number of 
diseases found among baby chicks. 
Experience has taught us that the 
brooder should be started and kept going 
several days previous to the time of the 
chicks being placed under it. We find a 
thin layer of fine sand placed on the floor 
very good. On this a thin layer of finely 
cut clover hay or straw is advisable. 
This combination placed on the floor and 
the brooder kept going several days before 
the chicks enter the brooder quarters, 
will insure dry sand and litter and also a 
well-regulated temperature. 
Use Sour Milk or Semi-Solid Buttermilk 
Under no circumstances should feed 
be given under forty-eight hours after 
hatching. We have found that one of 
the best, if not the very best thing to do is 
to provide sour milk from first feed to 
maturity. Sour milk has proved its 
value by test. It promotes growth and 
health and aids in preventing the dreaded 
white diarrhea. Where sour milk is not 
obtainable the semi-solid buttermilk can 
be obtained and used. Where milk of 
some form can be kept before them, it is 
unnecessary to use water at all for a 
number of weeks. We have seen eases 
of where no water was given chicks until 
almost matured. 
Some practice is required to handle 
the brooder. Our best results have been 
had by starting in with a temperature of 
100 degrees. After three da£s this may 
be reduced to several degrees lower. 
Some recommend a temperature of 90 
degrees when three days old and gradually 
lowered to 80 degrees when three weeks 
old. Some experience is needed to be 
able to say what is best in individual 
eases. By giving the matter proper 
attention much can be learned through 
experience in a very short time. 
Starting the Chick Off 
We usually start chicks off with sour 
milk, bran, fine scratch feed, and rolled 
oats. We also use a commercial starting 
feed. My experience has been that if a 
feed can be obtained that has been put 
out by a firm whose reputation for good 
products is established and whose 
products have proved their value, then 
the commercial feed is the cheaper in 
the end. Green feed is not to be over¬ 
looked. After they are three to four weeks 
old, we feed coarser grain unless closely 
confined. When more finely cracked, 
grain insures much more exercise. Litter 
must not be forgotten when feeding 
scratched grain. It stimulates exercise. 
Brooding and Early Feeding of 
the Baby Chicks 
W. L. Dickson 
fT^HE greatest problem the poultryman 
1 has is the brooding of his chicks. If 
only a few are raised hens will prove the 
best to brood them but this method has 
its disadvantages. It is usually hard to 
have broody hens early enough for the 
early hatched chicks and we must con¬ 
tinually fight lice. The incubator has 
given us a way to produce chicks in large 
numbers, the most economical way to 
brood them is by using the artificial 
brooder. 
In brooding artificially we find that the 
room in which the brooder is operated is 
very important. It should provide 
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