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4. The sick animals should be disinfected repeatedly ; 4. Special ma- 



. _ , nagement of 



their pens should be cleaned and disinfected re- hospital shed. 



peatedly, during the course of the illness. This 



should be doue by persons either guarded by the persons to be 



safety dress, or and this is safest by such as may CB 



not come into contact with healthy cattle, or have to 



enter healthy sheds. All tools, pails, fodder, &c., to be 



used in the hospital shed to be kept for that purpose 



only, and never to be used with healthy, or quarantine, 



or only suspected cattle. 



5 If the proprietor of any dead piece of cattle, 5. Disinfection 



J of parts ot dead 



whether it has died naturally or been killed, should or killed animals. 

 decide upon dismembering it instead of burying it 

 entire, and upon utilising the hide, horns, hoofs, 

 tallow, and bones, he should disinfect the skin, horns, 

 and hoofs, by steeping them for one hour in a strong 

 solution of chloride of lime, containing one pound of 

 the powder in each gallon of water, and afterwards 

 washing them. The tallow should be thickly pow- 

 dered with chloride of lime all over, and be sent 

 directly to the boilers. It should not be boiled in any 

 vessel employed on the farm. Under all circumstances, 

 it is advisable to let this dismemberment of dead and 

 fallen cattle be performed at the knacker's yard. 



6. Flesh, blood, guts, lungs, and the bones of the 6. Flesh, &e., 

 head of infected animals should not be trafficked with, 

 as they cannot easily be disinfected. They should 

 always be buried. 



I. Disinfection of Meadows, Fields, Roads, dec. I. Disinfection 

 1. Meadows infected by diseased cattle should be care- fields, roads', &c. 

 fully cleaned of all dimg, by burying each dropping on 

 the spot where it lies, cutting out the round piece of 



