The Marshall republican., 1914-02-20
Pathology of white Diarrl,oca
OF Artificialiy Matched Chicks, Cause
and Cure.

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The following article was written
by b. l.. Woodbridge, a former Mar
shall citizen, OF the Fowler, Colo, egg
farm. and was handed to us by +. A.
Hightshoe of the Marshall Produce
Co.:
Premises: that forty per cent OF
all chickens artificially Matched in the
country die OF a certain well defined
disease; and ca that death generally
occurs within ten days after Matching.
Conclusion: that with such n sim
ilarity. the cause of the disease must
be one aud the anne
Like all others. | encountered this
malady soon after ] began with poul-
try. and for years | have bent all the
forces Of my study and thought to-
wards It's elimination. a ear be-
fore the actual discovery of the germ
by Rottger and Stoneburn I had be-
come convinced that the germ must
come from the parent stock. and in
timated as much In Il published arti-
Gle. OF course the discovery Of the
germ indicated how the disease could
develop. but did nothing towards It's
treatment or %pevcntion.
In studying tho problem. first
wanted facts TO work on: not theory.
Two Of these facts stood out: FACT
ONE. That the presence OF the germ
did not necessarily mean the actual
difcasc. ~Post-mortoms on hundreds
OF patents in a hospital Ia Germany.
developed the TACT that In every case.
the lungs Of the subject showed that
ut II time or another they had been
attacked by tuberculosis: that tho at
tackled portion had healed. leaving
only u scar. the person dying Of ano-
thor dlgyago than tuberculosis, having
thrown off the tuberculosis attack.
FACT TWO: That the victims OF
the attack of white diarrhooa were
rarely eyer the ~hcn-hatched chicks:
only the artiiiclally Matched ones:
and that therefore the latter lacked
something which was supplied by ma
turc in the handling OF chicks.
During the Matching season of
1871 / lost some fifteen hundred
chicks from the disease. At the
latter part OF the scason Il occurred
to me that the temperature of the
body OF the hen where the chicks
lowered was about 100; whereas my
breeders were running at from % c.
lnchos from noor) to So. / raised
the temperature OF the broodcr ten
degrees, and the disease stopped.
Reading and thinking al! the inter.
vcning time. I started the hatchinr,
OF 1919. with hot broodcrs: floor OF
under broodorg covered with an
Inch Of |tconfuodj sand, covered with
alfalfa leaves. That che LASH sea.
son. I lost only about a dozen chicks:
all tho cases ! had, aud killed them
as 500 as symptoms appeared. This
was gratifying, but ! was not gatlsfl-
ed. II was unquesilonably a fact
that a hot. well ventilated tompera-
ture prevented the disease. but
WHY? Aud I never rested tin final.
ly got Il. And I give Il, to you my
friends. with my warm regards.
believe il TO be the real. only, final
solution OF the trouble, That obsery-
ance OF the little simple laws OF diges.
ton viii oblitorate this scourge and
that It's violation will almost surely
develop the trouble. My only won,
der Is, that some obseryant person has
not run upon this patent fact lonp
ago, but In all my reading have
never seen a hint which indicated IN
understanding of the matter or even
a suspicion of Il,
Lot me dispose OF the germ" fea.
ture of this article Just here aud hav,
done with It. As stated above. the
presence OF the germ need not neces
sarily produce the disease, | USED
oggs from hens this year with NJ
disease; from eggs from the same
hens last year | had the trouble ant
plenty Of II. There must be an acut,
cause to develop this disease. A heal
thy hoy oyerloads his stomach Will
green apples: result, intestinal dis
turbanee, | have received seyera
oatalogs from an eastern breedeI
proudly displaying certificates from
high authority that his flock contain
ed no hens with infected ovaries, lie
me say to the brother that II he VIC
lates the law laid down herein, hi
chicks will have white diarrhoea JUS
like any body's else.
When a mammal receives birth IL
first instinct~is to find something Il