Remarks Regarding Poultry Diseases.

Abstract

Your secretary’s invitation to attend this meeting and make a few remarks regarding poultry diseases, was gladly accepted. My association, for several years with the Pennsylvania Bureau of Animal Industry, the duties of which are to prevent, suppress, control and eradicate the communicable diseases of animals and poultry, has fully demonstrated the importance of the subject.

It is stated by some authors that whereas proper husbandry is of the first importance in the prevention of the non-infectious diseases, it is not of as much value against the infectious diseases. I am not quite ready to subscribe to this view. It is true that an animal or bird cannot acquire an infectious disease unless it first be inoculated with the germ, and it is also true that no matter how great care be taken this accident may occur. But I hold it to be true that a properly cared for flock . . .