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provisions are necessary or all parts of the floor 

 will be damp. This difficulty can be obviated by 

 constructing overlays consisting of floors of 

 matched material built on two-by-fours laid flat. 

 These are built up around the edges so that in 

 effect they are wide shallow boxes which contain 

 the litter. They should be located as far as pos- 

 sible from the platform where the garbage is fed. 

 What we have said in preceding chapters in 

 regard to maintaining herds immune to hog chol- 

 era applies as well to those that subsist on gar- 

 bage. Young garbage-fed pigs are relatively 

 somewhat slow in getting started, hence they re- 

 quire a little extra care such as we have already 

 outlined. In the absence of this care they are in 

 more or less danger of falling victims to various 

 influences that retard growth, or to ill effects fol- 

 lowing simultaneous treatment administered at a 

 time when they are not in the best condition to 

 withstand it. 



Garbage Feeding and Sanitary Considerations 



We have already described the cycle which 

 enables the practice of garbage feeding to aid in 

 perpetuating hog cholera. The ways in which this 

 cycle can be assailed remain to be considered. 

 Our attacks should include efforts to prevent ship- 

 ment from cholera infected herds, gradual revi- 

 sion of our meat inspection regulations with a 



