Word: blackhead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chickens and turkeys are a bad mixture. Turkeys convey gapeworms to chickens, and chickens convey blackhead to turkeys. Raise one or the other, but not both unless you can keep them well separated." "$2,500,000 worth of cabbages went into sauerkraut in a recent year. About one-seventh the whole commercial cabbage crop made 18,000,000 gallons of sauerkraut; sold for more than $3,500,000.* "Hog mange affects the choicest parts of hogs; hams, shoulders, bacon; forces disastrous price slashing. Farmers' Bulletin 1085 gives full, explicit direction for control and prevention. Statistics on hog cholera discloses...
Maine Anderson, of Dannebrog, Neb.; Paul Austin Chandler, of Hastings, Neb.; Walter Stanley Curtis, of Blackhead, Newfoundland; Frank Lowell Dunn, of Erie, Pa.; Irving Augustine Farrell, of Central Falls, R. I.; Jacob Fine, of Roxbury; Edward Wendell Foster, of Carthage, Mo.; Robert Norton Ganz, of Cambridge; Merrill Selden Frederick Greene, of Athens, Me.; Charles Teague Hunter, of Trenton, S. C.; Warren Johnson, of Boston; Wilfred Grant Jones, of Newark, O.; Frederic William Lathrop, of Carmel, Conn.; Herman Albert Lawson, of Newport, R. I.; Ashley Webster Oughterson, of Hall, N. Y.; Garnet Polydore Smith, of Cupids, Newfoundland; Franklin Chester Southworth...
...first to recognize that there were distinct differences between the bovine and human tubercle bacilli, and contributed to our knowledge of hog cholera, anaphylaxis, contagious abortion of cattle and streptococcic sore throat. He discovered several new parasites of the lower animals, one of them the micro-organism of blackhead in turkeys, a disease of large economic importance. This discovery will help reduce the cost of Thanksgiving dinners. He has devised many laboratory procedures; one of these, the fermentation tube, is universally used by bacteriologists for the study of gas formation by bacteria...