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(c) When removing the healthy animals, their bodies 

 should be washed with a %/ Q solution of sulphate of copper 

 and they should be made to swallow a little of ferrous sul- 

 phate with ginger (\ ounce of the sulphate being given to an 

 ox). 



f d) When an epidemic breaks out in potato, wheat or 

 any other agricultural crop, the crop should not be removed 

 after harvest, but some arrangement should be made to store 

 it in the field in which they have grown. 



(e) Seeds of all kinds should be pickled before sowing. 

 For delicate seeds steeping in camphor water is recommended 

 for 2 hours, and for ordinary agricultural seeds, such as wheat, 

 paddy, sorghum, potatoes, the sulphate of copper dip is the 

 best. Immediately after the dip, the seed should be got dry 

 with lime and ashes which have also germicidal properties, 

 and then sown. There is very little chance of a crop suffer- 

 ing from a fungoid disease if the seed has been pickled in 

 this way before sowing, and the sowing done in a field in or 

 near which this particular disease has not been noticed for 

 about two years. 



(f) Animals and plants enjoy some amount of immunity 

 from epidemics if they are kept in a vigorous condition. 

 For vegetables, water and manure, and for animals, oilcakes, 

 pulses, wheat-bran, salt, fenugreek and sugar, are invigorat- 

 ing and stimulating foods. A vigorous constitution is 

 generally speaking unsuitable for the growth of para- 

 sites. 



(g) When an epidemic breaks out among animals, one 

 should not rest satisfied simply by removing the healthy 

 animals and giving them stimulating food. They should be 

 given with their food some germicidal substance for a few 

 days until the danger is passed. The affected animal should 

 be also encouraged to eat some food in which some germi- 

 cidal substance is mixed up. These are, quinine, sulphate of 

 iron, sulphate of copper, lime, corrosive sublimate (rasa- 



