■Jnerican Agriculturist, April 19,1924 
407 
White Diarrhea 
Remarkable Experience of Mrs. 
C. M. Bradshaw in Prevent¬ 
ing White Diarrhea 
The following letter will no doubt be 
0 f utmost interest to poultry raisers 
ffho have had serious losses from White 
Diarrhea. 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 woulc 
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. 437, 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 al¬ 
ways get the remedy by return mail. — 
Mrs. C. M. Bradshaw, Beaeonsfield, 
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 pre¬ 
vents 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, Shenandoah, 
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 discour¬ 
aged with the chicken business. Finally, 
I sent to the Walker Remedy Co., Water¬ 
loo, 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 
^ e will send Walko White Diarrhea 
Remedy entirely at our risk—postage pre¬ 
paid—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 package of Walko—give it in all drink¬ 
ing water for the first two weeks and 
watch results. You’ll find you won’t lose 
one chick where you lost hundreds before. 
Its a positive fact. We guarantee it. 
The Leavitt & Johnson National Bank, 
the oldest and strongest bank in Water¬ 
loo, Iowa, stands back of this guarantee. 
iou run no risk. If you don’t find it the 
greatest little chick saver you ever used, 
your money will be instantly refunded. 
WALKER REMEDY CO., Dept. 437 
Waterloo, Iowa. 
Send me the [ J 50c regular size (or f ] SI 
economical large size) package of Walko'White 
oiarrhea Remedy to try at your risk. Send it on 
5our positive guarantee to instantly refund my 
money if not satisfied in every way. I am enclos¬ 
ing oOc (or SI.00). (P. O, money order, check 
or currency acceptable.) 
Xame. 
Town.... 
.R. F. D. 
State.... 
wanted I? 5 in square indicating size package 
^autea. Large package contains nearly three 
No war tax. 
^arge pacnag* 
maes as much as small. 
Our Record With White Leg¬ 
horns and How We Do It 
Mrs. A. C. Umoselle 
W E have been keeping White Leg¬ 
horns for the last ten years and 
although we have never kept a very large 
flock we have tried each year to select and 
breed up these birds so that each year we 
would have better and more early matur¬ 
ing hens than we had the rear before. 
We never bought any new stock after we 
got our first start and we have followed 
what is known as line breeding. This 
makes it unnecessary for us to get new 
stock. While some believe that it may 
result in harm, we have not yet seen any. 
The young cockerels produced this year 
are mated to yearling or older hens and 
this gives us the eggs we use for hatching. 
Coal Oil and Carbolic for Lice 
I believe a great many of the pests are 
brought in by importing other stock which 
brings in all the diseases. We have 
never been bothered yet from some of the 
kinds of lice which poultry keepers com¬ 
plain of and I believe the main reason for 
this is that we have not imported any 
stock. We have been able to keep in check 
all of the vermin we have by mixing a 
quart of coal oil and three tablespoonfuls 
of carbolic acid. This mixture we put 
clear on the perches and around the nests 
with a paint brush, trying to work it into 
all the cracks and crevices. 
There is nothing a bit fussy about the 
building. We keep these hens in and I 
doubt if there is a farm in the country 
where some building could not be re¬ 
arranged so that it would serve as ours. 
Ours was an old house which was re¬ 
modeled. An addition was put on to the 
east and windows placed in this, together 
with screens, so that plenty of fresh air 
could be admitted. 
Plenty of Room for Hens 
We figured on three square feet for 
these White Leghorns of ours and of 
course we have to figure the capacity of 
the house for that time of the year when 
the chickens cannot get out. That is the 
time when eggs are pretty hard to get 
unless the hens have enough room to get 
a great deal of exercise. We find that it 
does not pay to crowd our hens too tightly 
into the coop. We have tried it once or 
twice and found that a large number of 
crowded hens will not lay as many eggs 
as a considerably smaller number that 
have a chance to dig and scratch as much 
as they want to. A White Leghorn is 
one bird that never gets too lazy to forage 
for what mash we put in the self-feeder 
which is made up of equal parts of bran, 
middlings, ground corn and ground oats. 
To each 100 pounds of the mixture we use 
10 pounds of meat scraps, also a handful of 
salt. In the winter time we keep plenty 
of dry straw in the hen house and the 
scratch grains are raked into the straw. 
The scratch grains we feed are oats, corn 
and wheat screenings. 
Early Chick Rations 
As to raising the chicks, I do not feed 
them at all for from 36 to 48 hours after 
they are hatched and then the very first 
thing they get is a drink of sour milk. I 
never leave the milk before them more 
than ten minutes at first, as they will get 
into it and get themselves all dirty unless 
it is given to them in a fountain. The 
irst feed they get is bread crumbs and 
iard-boiled eggs and for the first 15 days 
they are fed this from two to three hours 
apart. I think it is considerably better 
to give them less and oftener from the 
very first. These young chicks should 
lave plenty of exercise. Of course the 
itter doesn’t want to be too deep. I 
get the clover heads from the barn and 
nit them in the brooder house. In the 
morning commercial chick feed is scat¬ 
tered in this litter. AVe begin to feed the 
regular hen mash to them when the 
chicks are from ten days to two weeks old 
and from then on they get all they want. 
It is before them in self-feeders. Also 
they have before them at all times, water, 
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EARLY 
BROILERS 
November Layers 
Make it ten weeks from peeps to 
broilers—two-pounders. 
Do it this way: 
Keep them healthy. 
Keep them hungry. 
Feed the old reliable 
Dr. Hess Poultry 
PAN-A-CE-A 
Never mind about indigestion, diarrhea, leg 
■weakness and gapes. Pan-a-ce-a takes care of 
all that. There will be wellness, cheer and 
good growth. 
PAN-A-CE-A your chicks—then put them 
on the scales at ten weeks, set her at two 
pounds, and watch that beam come up! 
You will see a mighty difference in the 
feather growth, too, between your flock and 
a non-Pan-a-ce-a flock. 
Pan-a-ce-a will develop your pullets into 
early henhood—fall and winter layers. 
Tell your dealer how many hens you have. 
There’s a right-size package for every flock. 
100 hens, the 12-Ib.pkg. 200 hens, the 25-lb. pail 
60 hens, the 5-lb. pkg. 500 hens, the 100-Ib. drum 
For fewer hens, there is a smaller package. 
GUARANTEED 
DR. HESS & CLARK Ashland, O. 
/ spent SO 
years in perfect¬ 
ing Pan-a-ce-a. 
Gilbert Hess 
&.D.. D.V.S. 
Dr.Hess Instant Louse Killer Kills Lice 
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Baby Chicks 
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Wtt.andBr.Leg.12c; Bar.Rocksand 
Blk. Min. 14c; Anconas 13c; Wh. 
Rocks and Reds 15c; Wh. Wyn. and 
Buff Orps. 16c. Live delivery guar¬ 
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Est. 1906 Tiffin, Ohio. 
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Every bird in our flock inspected by experts from 
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Foundation stock from Tom Barron of England, and we 
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