Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-12-06
CAUSE OF THE PIP.
Young Womaa student Discovers
she source of the Destructive
Chicken DtNeakc.

Women who have gone into the
chicken raising business and women
Who want TO go into it, the latter
forming decidedly the larger class,
viii be proud of one of their sex who
has made discovery which proves
invaluable 10 poultry growers. Wom
en have always had "a liking for this
industry, but have been discouraged
from entering i, on account of its
many stumbling blocks on he road to
success. One of the most impassa BILE
of these was the pps. IA disease which
every Year destroys fully half the
Young chickens. No matter how we'll
they may be cared for or how thrifty
The stock may appear. the pips will
appear among them and in less than
week thousands of them will be
dead. Amy remedy SO far tried has
proved unsuccessful because it has
never been known what the exact ma
ture of the disease is.
Miss Grace Nj. Norris student at
the Syracuse medical college. recently
made the discovery that the pips is
caused by worm which lodges in
the throat of the animal. choking it
says the Chicago Chronicle The
worm is about half an inch long as
she found it and fastens itself to the
mucous membrane of the chickens
trachea, where it grows until it has
reached maturity. when it energies
from the mouth or most rils of the
fowl and. falling to the ground. there
| deposits its ova and dies. \ group
of these parasites lodged in the throat
will soon fill up The air passage. when
the chicken will open its mouth to
pant and finally. unable to breathe.
will die. 1t is from the ova deposit
c the ground that disease spreads
The chickens scratching up the soil
set these eggs in motion and they are
breathed into the trachea where they
soon mature. So rapid is the spread
presence has been discovered all the
birds in the ward will be afflicted.
Once started it is almost impossible
TO check and in nine cases out of ten
will kill the fowl. The only prevent
i've is to change the chickens from one
yard to another. thus giving time for
the publication of the soil. If we'll
| plowed the ward will soon become
| clean again.
! In talking of her discovery Miss Nor
riS recently saitl 81 have always loved
animals and that is probably the rea-
son why ! investigated this disease
! visited last spring during my vaca-
ton at a farm near Richfeld Springs
! where Il great number of fowls We're
raised. noticed that many of the
young chickens and turkeys We're suf
| frring from a peculiar affection which
caused them to open thei- mouths
and suddenly. when they We're appar.
entity perfectly strong. die. The farm
efs said they had pips, but aside from
what had observed they knew little
Of The disease and had been unsue.
cessfnl in their attempts to overcome
| it. For four months | did nothino
but study and experiment with the
disease. AS a result | found that the
gaping was caused by the presence OF
parasite in the trachea. 1t is bright
| pink color and about half an inch
long and twisted in shape. Near ons
end il has long appendage. which
gives it forked appearance like The
letter Y. This appendage fasrens itself
firmly to the mucous membrane of tbs
trarhea, forming in masses. which close
the air passage and cause death
THE worm is pointed al one end
VI here the mouth is located. have
named the parasite the habit;
| trachena. There We're an average oi
20 parasites in every fowl I examined
| The only effective lreatmeni | have
found is to keep the fowls on fresi
soil, where there are no eggs to be in
hailed. Authorities have never agree,
as to the cause Of the disease and fol
his reason no effective remedy la:
been found. \ hooked Wire apparatl,s
| has been used, but wit hout success
| The Wire is run down the trachea an1
| in nearly every case the fowl dies as
a result of the remedy. An old treat
ment was to cat off the enCi OF The
tongue. which naturally appears to he
diseased. showing dry and swollen an,
covered with scales Anyone can ses
how cruel and at the same time how
harmful this remedy would be"
Miss Norris is a student, of medicine
in her second year at the Svracust
college and has distinguished hcrse.
by her work in biology and "naIyrica
dissection.