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Excerpt from Studies on a Nutritional Disease of Poultry Caused by Vitamin a Deficiency Flock No. 2 - Co'ntained 784 pullets, about 4 months old. Fifty nine or per cent were diseased. No greens had been fed for a month. About one hundred had died during this period. Greens were fed liberally and the flock entirely recovered in thirty days with a mortality of but nineteen additional birds. Flock No. 3 - Consisted of 1336 hens, 15 months old, 239, or per cent of which had characteristic lesions. These birds had free access to growing corn a short distance from their house, but few of them were getting it. About one hundred and fifty had died within six weeks. Greens were fed to the flock in the yards and within two weeks the number of diseased was reduced to forty. The additional loss from death was but eighteen fowls. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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