Diseases of Poultry: Their Etiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, Ment, and Prevention (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Diseases of Poultry: Their Etiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, Ment, and Prevention

It is probably safe to say that considerably more than fifty percent of the correspondence of those engaged in poultry work in the agricultural colleges and experiment stations in this country relates to poultry diseases. The poultryman or farmer sees that some, or perhaps all, of his birds are ill, and he straightway writes to the nearest college or station to know what the disease is, and what to do for it. The Maine Station has for many years been the recipient of a great number of such inquiries. It is an unfortunate, but in the nature of the case an unavoidable fact, that in many instances it is quite impossible to make any really satisfactory reply to these inquiries. In the vast majority of cases the person who writes the letter is quite untrained in pathology and either describes no symptoms at all or only those very general ones which are common to nearly all the ills of poultry. To one who has not handled this class of correspondence it would seem almost incredible that there should be so many letters of the following type: "I have lost about a third of my chickens in the last few days. They seem a little dumpish for a while and then die. What is the trouble and what shall I do for it?" To diagnose and prescribe on such a basis of information is impossible. Yet the hard fact remains that the correspondent's chickens were ill and did die, and he needs help to get out of the trouble.

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