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sausages, and manure, solid and liquid. All such should bo 

 promptly sent in closed wagons to rendering works to be super- 

 heated and made into manure; or, in default of this, they may be 

 deeply buried in a covering of recently burned quicklime and 

 solid earth. If the manure cannot be dealt with as above, it may 

 be freely watered with a solution of corrosive sublimate (1 part 

 to 500 parts water) and hauled out and plowed under by horses. 

 The place where it has Keen should be scraped clean and thoroughly 

 disinfected with the same agent, with carbolic acid, cresol, re- 

 cently burned quicklime or some other effective germicide. If it 

 can be completely isolated, it will, in the unfrozen state, usually 

 disinfect itself in a comparatively short time, but meanwhile there 

 is great danger of infection being carried elsewhere by sparrows, 

 poultry, pigeons, carrion crows, buzzards, hawks, and in summer 

 other birds, and also by rats, mice, and other vermin, and again by 

 insects, so that the subject of the manure and its accumulation 

 becomes one of a constant peril. 



AH objects used on or about cattle, sheep, goats, swine or other 

 susceptible animals must be as closely secluded as the animals 

 themselves. Of these, covers, clothing, currycombs, cards, brushes, 

 rubbers, wash cloths, scrapers, broom-, forks, shovels, hoes, vacuum 

 cleaners, sewer compression pumps, buckets, pails, power hay forks, 

 ropes, pulleys, bull rings, poles, anti-kicking contrivances, sheep 

 crooks, hog catchers (nooses)-, butchers' implements, milking 

 machines, veterinary instruments, lariats, halters, hobbles, ambu- 

 lances, wagons, stone boats, farm implements may be especially 

 named. Manure wagons, offal wagons, dead wagons, and those 

 used for hides are preeminently dangerous. A thorough disin- 

 fection of each and every object should be made as it passes out of 

 the quarantined territory. 



Horses, mules or donkeys on a quarantined farm must be kept 

 in a separate enclosure (better in a separate building) from the 

 affected and suspected animals, and kept carefully apart from any 

 manure, fodder, litter, or other material that has been exposed to 

 the latter or their products. If they must come in contact with such 

 products, as in hauling out the manure, they must be brushed and 

 have their feet and limbs cleaned, washed and disinfected before 

 they can pass on any public highway or open ground, and the 



