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should have a shallow vat, preferably of concrete. The vat should 

 be the full width of the chute and 8 or 10 inches deep. (This vat 

 is serviceable in the treatment of sore feet, in all farm animals, 

 particularly cattle and sheep). A strong solution of copper sul- 

 phate (bluestone) or a 4 per cent, solution of the cresol com- 

 pound solution should be used to clean and disinfect the feet 

 of cattle that have been on cholera-infected grounds. 



The danger of a recently purchased lot of feeding cattle car- 

 rying hog cholera germs on their feet, from an infected stock- 

 yards to the farm, should not be overlooked ; and the proper dis- 

 infecting of tre cattle's feet should be made to prevent the infec- 

 tion of the pastures and feedyards. 



It is well known that dogs serve as carriers of cholera infec- 

 tion. It is therefore advisable, during outbreaks of cholera in 

 the neighborhood, to keep all valuable dogs in quarantine, espe- 

 cially at night, to prevent them from roving about and visiting 

 cholera-infected farms, where carcasses may have been left un- 

 burned. Worthless stray dogs should be destroyed. 



Hog cholera infection is easily carried by chickens and tur- 

 keys from the roadway along which diseased hogs have been 

 driven, or from an infected pen to clean pens, on other parts of 

 the same farm. These fowls should be shut away from the hog- 

 lots, during outbreaks of hog cholera on the farm, or in the neigh- 

 borhood. A few dollars spent in poultry netting will be less ex- 

 pensive than buying serum and cholera medicines, and will often 

 save hundreds of thousands of dollars to the neighborhood. 

 Pigeons are more dangerous as infection carriers,* because of 

 their habits of flying to neighboring farms and feeding with hogs 

 that may be suffering from hog cholera. The pigeons should be 

 destroyed or kept in confinement when cholera is in the neighbor- 

 hood. Buzzards and crows should be dealt with by shotguir 

 (luarantine. Simultaneous and repeated attacks upon the roosting 

 camps of these undesirable birds by farmers' clubs or anti-hog- 

 cholera clubs will soon rid a neighborhood or county of these 

 infection carriers. When the practice of burning all animal car- 

 casses has become well established in a neighborhood, the buz- 

 zards will migrate to other regions where carrion food is avail- 

 able. They do not visit clean farms. 



The traveling hog-doctor, .with his "sure cure" and "[)reven- 

 tive" for hog cholera, and all other ills to which swine are sub- 

 ject, should not be a welcome visitor, for he is liable to be an in- 

 fection carrier. His business takes him to diseased herds; as a 

 rule these business i)arasites are not careful thoroughly to disin- 

 fect their contaminated shoes and overalls after treating ( ?) a 

 diseased herd. 'I'lic itinerant "vaccinators" and local "farmer- 

 agents" for serum ccjuipanies are also undesirable visitors. 'Hiey 

 are more interested in their "commissions" and "fees" (ban in 

 sanitation, and are more likely to spread cholera virus "with both 

 hands and both feet" than they are to give relief from a threat- 



