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Encourages Disease And Works: WATERING too frequently, shallowly and at wrong times promotes crab grass, encourages disease and works other damage. Intelligent watering brings greenness, healthy growth, turf that repels weed development and, to some extent at least, pests and diseases. Know-how is needed to water well. Good practices must be based on sound principles. Let's examine these.
First, don't water early in the season unless there is evident need. Grass stands considerable dryness without harm.
The second rule: when you water soak to a depth of at least six inches, provide no more water until there is obvious need. Usually this will not be sooner than five to .seven days even in dry weather.
Mycoplasmosis is a respiratory disease caused y the bacteria Mycoplasma gallisepticum. It is Iso known as air sac disease or chronic respira-jry disease. Those affected with the disease may how nasal discharge, watery eyes, and respira-)ry difficulty. This disease is often associated /ith other respiratory diseases. It is transmitted hiefly from infected hens to their chicks through le eggs. The disease can also be transmitted by ontact with infected individuals, but it spreads ery slowly in this manner. The disease can best e controlled by maintaining breeding flocks free f the disease by strict measures of isolation and mitation. Chicks hatched from such flocks can egin life free of the disease.
Marek's disease is primarily a disease of young chickens from 2 to 5 months of age. It is also known as jowl paralysis and neural lym-phomatosis. Nerve-tissue rumors that cause paralysis of both legs and wings are the most common form of this disease, but the tumors may also affect the viscera, eyes, and gonads. The disease is probably caused by a virus. |
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