An Interesting Experience with Chicken Pox

Abstract

The appearance of chicken pox in the contest flock at the California Farm Bureau Egg Laying Contest at Santa Cruz, being conducted under the auspices of the Poultry Division of the College of Agriculture, University of California, the second week after the start of the contest on November 1, 1921, furnished a certain amount of interesting data on this disease which should be of extreme interest to poultry raisers. The first two cases appeared in one particular entry the second week of the contest but in a day or two it appeared in another pen. As both of these pens came from the same shipping point, the disease undoubtedly came from that territory and may have been contracted en route by contact with diseased stock.

Since this disease develops slowly it was the eighteenth of November before there was enough evidence of pox to make it advisable to vaccinate the . . .