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they advise, and not try to improve on
rohea and so far none of the Leghorns.
the methods recommended. You might
Some one will say the germ must have
think of many different ways to disin-
been inside of the egg and hatched with
fect the eggs and try to improve.
Just the chick. It looks reasonable but such
stop and consider that all this experi-
IS not the fact. The germ was on the
menting with dozens of methods they egg .shell and the inside of the egg played
have tried and sifted down, the alcohol
no part except to act
as the breeding
is the best, safest, quickest and cheapest place of the germ which caused the
and has no bad effects. Take my ad- diarrhoea.
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vice and do as they say. There may be
How. the gerws wjjicli^^atree-.ithe^'^di^
other ways, but don't risk any chicks
.ease.maj.Jjelikfj, th'QsevO^; typfeiS'let^'^^
or time experimenting. If they say-
''in ta^,.; i$h!ese.m)*$t.reiiiain..-in i;ontetf**>X
alcohol to cleanse the eggs, use alcph^,; ,
with decomposing animal or vegetable """'
exactly as told. -, ',,',
' t matter a time before they have advance-'
Now the valuable part of the investi-
ed sufficiently far
gation is that the disease to reproduce the dis^'-^'>~
is due to a
ease in man who takes them
germ, which may be in the stools of any in his
system through food and drink, mostly
fowl at any age. •.
impure water, r,-.;a-ji-,'-i
In old fowls it seems to be harmless,
You might drink typhoid
but in young chicks it is fatal. Now germs
perfectly fresh
experiments demonstrate that the germ and not have the dis
ease: yet if allowed to incubate a few
is left on the egg in passing out perhaps
hours, are virulent infection.
in small numbers. The process of in-
Now after
cubation furnishes the very method of the germs have passed
breeding, hatching and spreading the through the bodies of the chicks from
the infected egg shells in which they have
germs, increasing the growth and even
possibly the extreme virulence. For caused the disease, they are in turn,
the incubator is the very machine used after a proper change, carried into the
to grow and multiply germs in the crops of the well bom chick who gets
medical and scientific investigation of the disease, and thus it spreads from one
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disease. to the other along an endless chain.
Thfese germs are found by the mis- This explains the necessity,
first of
roscope in the dropping of fowls and, removing the sick and second, thorough
apparently harmless to grown adults, cleansing and disinfecting the discharges
they are deposited on the coating of the from the sick chicks. Removing, drying,
egg in an incubator. There they hatch sunhght, all are disinfectants.
and grow and multiply. By the time
You must go back of that.
You must
a chick is ready to come out he gets
fumigate the incubator after each hatch
some of this germ culture in his mouth, with formalin or wash with
formalin,
absorbs it and straightway starts the live per cent, solution,
I suggest formalin
growth in his own body, which multiplies
as It is non-poisonous and will not corrode
fast and in a few days he has diarrhoea
the metal parts as sulphur or bichloride,
and dies. Giving through his stools the and it evaporates after accomplishing
disease to other chicks and thus spread-
its mission and leaves nothing behind
ing indefinitely. to poison the chicks, as other germacides
In a hatching I saw today some would do.
Rocks and Leghorns both hatched to- Now washing and cleansing,
first,
gether in the same incubator under the eggs with alcohol, then the incuba-
exactly the same conditions. Nearly tor with formalin, then the brooder
all the Rocks have the white diar- with the same and you have a safe,