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enumerated and described in the following may have 

 to be applied. 



II. PRACTICE OF DISINFECTION. n. Practice of 



disinfection. 



A. Disinfection by Earth. 1. Burying. All matters A. Disinfection 

 that can be buried, so as to remain covered with a i. Burying of 

 thick layer of ground or earth are innocuous. The a 

 ground chosen for such interment should be dry. The 

 quickest, and cheapest, and most certain way of disin- 

 fecting an animal dead from the plague is to bury it 

 entire. 



2. The droppings, and all straw and other matters 2. Burying of 

 contaminated therewith, may also be buried into 



ground where they are not likely to be disturbed for a 

 long time. The places from which such droppings 

 have been removed to be cleaned and disinfected as 

 will be described below. 



3. Manure heaps aud the down-trodden manure of 3 - infected 



* manure and com- 



cattle yards, if they have become infected by even a P st heaps, 

 small quantity of the droppings of a diseased animal, 

 should be carefully shifted to a suitable piece of 

 ground, and there be transformed into compost heaps. 

 A layer of manure one or two feet in thickness should 

 be covered all over with six inches of dry earth, ashes, 

 and mineral rubbish; upon this another layer of 

 manure may be placed, and then again a layer of 

 earth, and so forth, until the whole of the manure is 

 stacked ; it should be covered all over with a con- 

 tinuous layer of earth of from six inches to one foot in 

 thickness. If the manure heap or yard manure cannot 

 be shifted, it may be covered on the spot with a layer 

 of dry earth, after which all animals are to be kept 

 away from it. 



