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When opportunity offers, inoculation with bile derived from an 

 animal sick of the disease will be given a trial. 



Sanitary Styes. 



A sanitary stye is, inter alia, one constructed with impervious 

 floors, drains, and catchment pit, proper walls and roof, and of such 

 construction that sunlight readily enters, and circulation of air 

 uninterruptedly goes on. The pit should have a Califoruian or other 

 cheap pump fixed in position for emptying it, and the contents should, 

 after disinfection and after proper dilution, be sprinkhMl over tilled 

 lands by a cart fitted with a sprinkler. 



An impervious fioor is constructed of concrete, and may, if thought 

 advisable, be surmounted with paving bricks set in cement. 



To construct a concrete floor, mix together one part of Portland 

 cement, four parts sharp clean sand, :ind five ])arts of clean broken 

 stone. The stone should not be over two inches in any measurement. 

 Gravel will answer, but it is not as good as broken stone. Mix the 

 sand and cement first, then wet and thoroughly mix them, then add 

 the broken stone and thoroughly incorporate the lot and place it in 

 the position for the fioor. When spread out, thoroughly tamp it with 

 a tamper and make the layer four or five inches thick. Next day 

 topcoat the layer with Portland cement and sand, half ami half. 

 Trowel thoroughly, and when well set, which will take from 12 to 24 

 hours, de])ending on the weather, cover the surface with sand, old 

 sacks, or anything that will keep moist for a week. Only when it is 

 thoroughly set is it ready for use. 



Disinfection of Premises and Disposal of Dkad Pigs. 



The sides and flooring of styes, and the ground over which diseased 

 pigs have roamed, are infected spots, and they must necessarily be 

 disinfected to eradicate the disease. Dead animals should be burnt 

 or should be buried deeply in the ground in chloride of lime and then 

 covered over with quicklime before filling in the hole. The droppings 

 from sick animals should be disinfected with carbolic acid and lime 

 solutions, and if it is not possible to burn them, they should be 

 buried deeply in the ground. The floors and drains of styes when 

 sanitarily constructed are easily disinfected. 



To thoroughly disinfect styes, the floors and drains should be 

 washed down with hot strong solutions of phenyle, and the walls after 

 having been washed with phenyle should be limed, and the lime 

 wash should contain a little of the chloride of lime or crude 

 carbolic acid. 



At all times the styes should be kept properly cleansed and 

 disinfected, and the food should be cleanly prepared. The boots 

 and clothing of attendants are, as already stated, sources of infection. 

 It would, therefore, be wise for attendants to keep boots solely for 

 use about the styes, and change them, in their proximity, when the 

 work is done. Care must be taken to see that the clothing does not 



