Poultry Producer Chief Defender
Of Poultry Health, Dr. Gentry Says
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa June
25 Educational sessions on
poultry health, a special re or
gamzation luncheon for the new
board of directors, and the tradi
tional “Drumstick Golf Tourney ’
cnmaed the annual summer meet
ing of the Pennsylvania Poultrj
1 ederation at Penn State Univer
sity
Dr Robert F Gentry, head of
poultry disease research at the
University, told his poultryman
audience that the “front line of
defense against poultry disease
is the poultry pioducer himself”
A high peicentage of infections
can be avoided by proper man
agement practices he asserted.
Dr Gentry repoited that they
arc cuirently working on four
) lam projects at the University’s
poultry disease research center
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Dr. Louis Liebowita* director
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mg internal parasites of poultry,
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“There are no known parasites of
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Some of the “miracle drugs”
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rnd poultry health, according to
Dr Grover D Cloyd, of Hess &
Clark, Inc, Ashland, Ohio Dis
ease-causing micro - organisms
seem to have built up resistance
to the antibiotics, and anti-bac
tenals may offer more hope for
control and treatments of certain
chseases in the future, he be
lieves
DR. CLOYD DISCUSSED the
major bacterial diseases of chic
kens, along with prevention, con
trol and treatment measures for
each In summing up he empha
sized that it is cheaper in both
time and money to follow preven
tion programs than to treat dis
ease after it appears on tne faim
“It is better to prevent than to
h\e with or treat any disease,” he
maintained, urging the poultry
men to practice the basic prmci
pies of disease prevention and
conti ol such as sanitation, blood
testing, and depopulation
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Berks County hatcheryman, and Mrs Anthony, are shown
here with the certificate presented Anthony by the State
Poultry Federation. He is a past president of the Fedeia
tion. r F 1
OL I'GUlinci r'Jxji.oliJjiliNi oi me ouue i-ouitiy reaeration,
Dr E I Robertson of Lancaster, is presented an engraved
gavel by the incoming president William G Robinson
(left) Robinson assumed his new duties at the annual
Poultiy Federation Banquet at State College Thursday
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