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rootknot to beets, soft rot, ordinary blight, black-leg, rootknot of caggage, and various diseases of cucumbers and cantaloupes. NEW COMBINA. |

I A new cor/fbmation treatment, using the antibiotic aureomycin with sulfamethazine, has proved 100 percent effective in prevent*' ing mortality of chicks infected with cecal coccidiosis under experimental conditions.

The most favorable results of the treatments came from feeding 100 grams of aureomycin per ton of feed with 0.125 percent sulfamethazine. No deaths occured in chicks given this treatment, compared w’ith a morality rate of 43 percent in the inoculated, untreated group.

Chicks affected with cecal coccidiosis usually show no symptoms until the fourth day of infection, and deaths generally occur on the fifth day. To produce worthwhile benefit, the aureomycin-sulfamethazine treatment must be started at the time the chicks are exposed to infection. '

SOIL TESTING

Farming without fertilizer is not profitable. Using too much or tpo little also cuts down on the profit.

VPI agronomists say about the only way you will know haw much lime and fertilizer to use is to take soil samples and send them to the

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