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FOLLOWING reports by Stokstad and Jukes1 that the addition of aureomycin to the diet of chicks stimulated growth, and by Whitehall et al.2 and Groschke and Evans3 that other antibiotics had a similar effect, it has now become almost universal practice in the United States to supplement the starter mash of chicks and turkeys with one or other of these agents. In Great Britain, Coates et al.4 confirmed that growth stimulation occurs in chicks and discussed the possible mode of action of the antibiotic.
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Stokstad, E. L. R., and Jukes, T. H., Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol., 73, 523 (1950).
Whitehall, A. R., Oleson, J. J., and Hutchings, B. L., Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol., 74, 11 (1950).
Groschke, A. C., and Evans, R. J., Poult. Sci., 29, 616 (1950).
Coates, M. E., Dickinson, C. D., Harrison, G. F., Kon, S. K., and Mann, M. E., Proc. IX World's Poultry Congress, 2, 101 (1952).
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WILSON, J. Effect of Adding Penicillin to Turkey Starter Mash. Nature 169, 715–716 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/169715b0
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