Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1912 — Birds Cause Horses Death [ARTICLE]

Birds Cause Horses Death

Veterinarian Explains a Trypanosyomla Epidemic in Kentucky— Is Like Pellagra. I* Louisville, Ky.—Blackbirds carrying infection from the south are responsible for the death of great numbers* of Kentucky horses from a disease skin to pellagra, in the opinion of Assistant State Veterinarian iL'L Purdy, who is analysing the brains of dead horses Is ah effort to find traces of the germs. The disease is trypanosyomia, and Dr. Purdy’s theory is that the birds infected with it are btt-

* —— (S? , . ten by mosquitoes, which either bite the horses, thus conveying the infection, or lay their eggs in the damp fodder eaten by the horses. Moldy, feed was at first held responsible for the epidemics, which have been prevalent since last spring, but that theory has been discarded. '■" ,l . V'" 1 1 ? For Commercial Sueeeas. “Commercial success requires the | and enterp^b.-^Slfe