COCCIDOSIS Strictly Enforced Sanitary Measures
Sanitary measures and milk are promoted as the most potent tools against coccidiosis. Officials stress strict enforcement to control the serious disease through hygiene and nutrition.
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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1930
Page
11
Sanitary measures and milk are promoted as the most potent tools against coccidiosis. Officials stress strict enforcement to control the serious disease through hygiene and nutrition.
Editor notes this paper carries a series of 52 poultry raising stories by Dr L D LeGear a national poultry authority from St Louis urging careful reading and clipping for future reference.
An article warns poultry raisers about coccidiosis in baby chicks, noting it is highly fatal, especially in three to eight week olds. It describes symptoms such as droopy feathers, loss of appetite, and bloody droppings, and prescribes sanitation, isolation, milk diets, and thorough cleaning to control the disease.
Lactose in milk helps kill the tiny parasites causing the disease. Remove water then feed chicks fresh buttermilk clabber or 20 to 40 percent powdered milk in mash, plus green food and light grain. After disease vanishes in one to two weeks, taper milk and increase mash and grain. Emphasize sanitation. milk diet alone is not enough. With proper feeding and hygiene, Cocci diosis can be conquered.
The Department sent two unknown men into a deer hunting area to pose as guests at a suspected gang camp. They befriended the law breakers, were invited for water, then shot at deer, admitted poor aim, and agreed to join wardens. The two men then sold a deer for ten dollars and led night headlight hunts. Seven men were arrested. five were cleared as witnesses. The pair paid about 270 dollars in fines and costs as part of a broader crackdown on headlight hunting in southwest Texas.
Poultry expert R S Dearstyne from State College outlines steps to raise spring hatched pullets to laying age. Emphasizes proper feed, green forage, housing space, cleanliness, water, oyster shell, grit, and daily flock observation to prevent disease and improve profitability.
Electra and Alice are among Texas towns slated for new airports. Downtown lighting improvements are expected in 1930 as Dallas Retail Merchants Association campaigns for brighter streets with Pacific Ave style illumination planned for other downtown streets.
Abilene residents exceed 400 in number subscribe 400000 dollars in stock to the Frank Kell line proposed from Cross Plains to connect Abilene with the Katy system and serve a rich agricultural and livestock region.
The Central Power and Light Co constructs an 86 mile 66 kV transmission line from Laredo to Asherton with another line extending north from San Angelo. Texas improvements follow regional developments as authorities urge Texans to prevent fires. The State Fire Insurance Commission reports September fire losses at 816,620, totaling 9,614,357 for nine months, with 85 percent blamed on carelessness.
Background on the 200000 dollar milk plant at Mount Pleasant shows local stock purchases totaling 100000 dollars from Titus Camp Franklin Morris and Harrison counties with the remainder from the Texas Milk Product Co of Marshall. Plant capacity is 120000 pounds daily to meet rising dairy needs.
Gainesville starts the year with $200000 in new construction including paving a dozen streets. Swift & Co. to build a Taylor poultry plant employing seventy five, also packing poultry and adding butter machinery. After twelve years, the Fairlie light plant is replaced by Texas Power & Light Co. highline service.
The Lubbock Chamber of Commerce appropriated twenty two thousand dollars to advertise the advantages of the South Plains farming area. Space in six national publications is provided for in the budget.
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