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As a measure of economy the skins may be removed, if at once,, 

 on the spot, plunged for 12 hours in a 5 per cent, solution of car- 

 bolic acid, or cresyl, or creolin, or in a two per cent, solution of 

 sulphuric acid, and, if the knives and other implements used are 

 placed in boiling water for half an hour. The same will apply 

 to fleeces. 



Disinfection. All litter, fodder, manure, urine, and other ex- 

 cretions, or products ; all stalls, feeding troughs, sheepfolds, 

 covers, halters, harness, wagons, poles, shafts, and other objects 

 used about the animals, or soiled by them or their products, 

 should be disinfected by burning, flaming or scalding (boiling), 

 when applicable, by one of the above-named disinfectants, by 

 mercuric chloride (5 : 1000), by formalin, or other potent anti- 

 septic. Extensive dung heaps, too wet to burn, may be sprinkled 

 freely with strong mineral acids, or mercuric chloride in solution, 

 piled into compact mass, covered with chloride of lime, and finally 

 with a thick layer of earth, and fenced in from all stock. 



If carcasses must be moved to the grave, rendering works, or 

 elsewhere, they should be sponged with carbolic acid solution, 

 formalin, or mercuric chloride, and each of the natural openings 

 firmly plugged with tow or cotton soaked in the same material, 

 so that no infecting material may drop on the way. They should 

 on no account be dragged on the ground, but carried on a wagon 

 or stone boat, which should be afterward carefully disinfected. 

 Men or animals, entering an infected place, should be disinfected 

 on leaving ; especially hands and feet. 



All roads, yards, and pastures where the sick have been, and, 

 above all, where manure, urine, or saliva has fallen, should be 

 subjected to thorough disinfection, or the surface layer removed 

 and deeply buried. Where available, a concrete or asphalt floor 

 should be placed in the buildings. 



Isolation. Movement from Infected Ground. It has long been 

 known that the movement of an infected herd from the contamin- 

 ated pasture to another, will often, at once, check the development 

 of new cases. In Sardinia and Auvergne the flocks and herds 

 were yearly moved on the approach of autumn, from the rich 

 valley, and bottom lands, to the drier hill pastures, to avoid or 

 lessen the decimation that otherwise inevitably overtook them. 

 This is in keeping with the enzootic nature of the malady which 



