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Prevent Poultry Diseases Prevention is the most satis factory way to deal with poulti v diseases and paiasiles, advises the USDA. Many disease conditions can be pi evented tluough good management, but cannot be •Ured once they actually occur Contagious diseases usually •an be prevented by completely Isolating the flock, vaccinations are useful against some com mon diseases. Many inherited diseases can be avoided by us ing tested, healthy stock. Diseases caused by nutrition al deficiencies seldom develop St chickens are fed balanced ra tions. Some drugs are effective in Tobacco and Balati go hand in hand* Goodbye weeds and grasses* Available thru MILLER CHEMICAL & FERTILIZER CORP. Bpkrata, Penna. Phone 733-6525 or contact MILLER Representative. pi eventing specific diseases or paiasiles. but Ihev do little good when used hapha/aidl.v Dings should be used to icin foice good management, not as a substitute lor it. The following aie effective pieventive moasuies Clean the poulti y house be fore moving the flock in. Provide clean, fresh feed and pure water Treatment of water is not necessaiy unless the source is contaminated. Keep poultry house and equipment clean and diy. Provide adequate ventilation duung hot weather. Tobacco grower acceptance of Balan is moving mighty fast for a crop that’s been cared for by hand for centuries. But Balan is taking over. Stopping 20 weeds and grasses as they germinate. For months, too. Cultivations ha\e been dropping to 1 or 2 at most. Balan is the most economical weed control insurance you can buy today. Let Balan work for you. Talk about it ruth your dealer or ask any Balan user. He’ll tell you. When vou hear it from Elanco, Scieen houses to piotecl the Hock fiom diseases earned In lice flying buds Contiol i .its and mite Obtain US Pulloi um Tv phoid clean chicks fiom a Na tional Plan halihciy. If possible, have birds of only one age on the fai m Alterna tively, separate birds of differ ent ages into different flocks Keep flocks at least 40 feet apart. Keep poultiy house locked Lunit visitors to the poultry house When a visit is lustified. supply the visitor with lubber or plastic boots or insist that he El>nc*t Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Ma> 23.1970 su ill) amt (hsinh'd his shoes m hoots Stoic dioppmgs and hltei wlme then aie not attessiole to lange 01 wild buds. Use a vaccination piogiam iccommended foi yom aica Keep delivciy liticks as fat away from the flock as possible Disinfect (nick tnes befoic cle livei ing feed to i ange Do not let lush 01 pink ac cumulate in 01 near the poulti y house When a disease outbreak oc cuis, deteune the cause as soon as possible. If vou do not lecognizc the disease 01 paiasite, take 01 send foui 01 fne live chickens to the neaiesl poultiy diagnostic lab -01 atoiy (Yom vetennaiian 01 county agent can give you the addiess ) Poultiy-disease ex pel Is need live buds to make an accin ale diagnosis In sending chickens to the laboiatoiy, be sine to list the svmptoms, number of affected buds, numbei of deaths souice ot stock size of flock, feeding piogiam vaccines used yom name, addiess, and countv, and othei peitment mfoi mation Ooni be kepi walling al the SIIOI ...MAKE FAST WORK OF SILO-FILLING WITH THE ALLIS-CHALMERS 480 FORAGE BLOWER A BLOWER that can’t keep pace with the capacity of your forage harvester is expensive as well as frustrating. You’ll never be kept waiting when you make a silo-filling date with the AUis-Chalmers 480. It’s got big, ton-a-minute capacity to fill the biggest silos in record time. It’s built rugged, too. Stays on the job, hour after 60-ton h6ur... day after dependable day. See it today. V AIUS-CHALMERS Roy H. Buch, Inc. Ephrata, ED. 2 Grumelli Form Service Quanyville. Pa. Nissley Form Service Washington Boio, Pa. Ilci omiiK'iidfd incasi in", to (onliol (II.MMSC Inc hum.ik> oi pul into .1 di*-- PoS.ll pit .ill (ll'.ul ( 111 l kl’llS Ilemou' all obMouslv sick thickens (10111 the flock It usually is best to kill them .mil dispose of (he cai casscs If buds :11c to be tiented. put them in a sepaiate pen or hos pital coop as fai away from the othci buds as convenient Fol low the treatment suggested by the poulliy laboialoiy or a poultiy pathologist. Be careful not to spread disease fiom the sick birds. Take caie of the diseased buds last, weai clothing and boots that can be left outside the pen, or disinfected aftei use Wash voui hands befoie woik ing with other chickens Clean and disinfect the poul tiy house as thoioughly as pos sible aftei diseased buds aie icmoved, without distuibing the lemaimng flock Remove litter used by diseased buds and ic place it Clean and disinfect equipment To get nd of intei nal pata sites, contact youi county agent 01 a poulliy specialist L. H. Brubaker Lancaster, Pa. N. G. Myers & Son Rheems, Pa. H. Brubaker Lititz, Pa. 7