The Archive · 1928

Diseases Among Poultry

To the Ruitor of the "Nowrn-Cuina Datty News."

Sin—In reply to. "Fowl Lover! inquiry, I have the liberty to that chickens affected with neue monia are still good for food if the case is not very bad.. During the Jato autumn and the early spring (the most favourable weather for developing pneumonia), we may find out many: fowls which a attacked by such disease in market.

it wed of harm.

People buy them and ext

positive prove, 1 raise several hundred of S.C. White "Leghorns every" youn: occasionally, T et one oF two have contracted diseases, In. ceases out of ten, the sufferers were laying hens, especially heavy layers, while the cock-birds and non-laying pullets remain as strong. as. ever, 'The veason is that hens are bound to lay; they lay out thei vitality, so that they have less resistance against diseases than the cock-birds fand the non-laying pullets. So fur as I know hens will often impair their health by' too heavy Jaying unless they are properly housed, fed and eared for.

Tam, ete

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