8 CONKEY'S STOCK BOOK 



In domesticating living creatures, animals or fowls, even in the hous- 

 ing and crowding of man himself, we know we are going against Nature's 

 law. Consumption, the great white plague, may be the greatest but it 

 isn't the only "house disease," as your doctor will tell you any day. 



Wherever living creatures congregate will be found disease germs, to 

 say nothing of parasites lurking and waiting for victims. Perfect health 

 in any 'organism has, by that same Nature's law, the power of resistance, 

 even to very serious disease conditions. There is a healing process in 

 the healthy cells of living tissue. It fights disease germs, destroys them, 

 throws them off. But let the same living creature become weakened from 

 any cause and it loses this resistance; disease germs attack it like ravenous 

 wolves and if the right sort of help does not come in time the life of that 

 organism is destroyed. 



Just as civilized man must live in houses, so livestock must, to be 



profitable, put up with conditions against Nature's law. But, warned of 



the danger, the up-to-date stockman can keep a sharp lookout, and be 

 armed for the fight against Nature's law. 



KEEP CLEAN In this whole problem of close quarters and profit in 



livestock, the chief question is Sanitation; the next most 



important is Sanitation; and SANITATION is the most important of all. 



Keep everything clean. Disinfect regularly if you expect to keep down 

 disease germs. Many of the diseases of animals are of germ origin; to 

 fight these germs is a first essential, and is just as necessary as to feed 

 and water the stock. An ounce of prevention is still worth a pound of 

 cure. Nearly all diseases of stock may be traced to poor feeding, unsani- 

 tary quarters and insufficient care. Cleanliness, absolute cleanliness, is as 

 important as any other consideration. Disease germs thrive in filth and 

 dirt and all conditions that favor mould or fungus growth. 



Let us thoroughly understand what is meant by filth, for a little of it 

 means a lot. On the foot of a common house fly, six hundred thousand 

 typhoid germs have been found, and six million on the whole of its little 

 body. When we think of such facts we will cease to think of heaped-up 

 manure piles as the only source of germ contagion, We begin to under- 

 etand that any taint can harbor germs. 



DISINFECTING Disinfection is a necessity. A good, economical liquid 

 disinfectant should be kept on hand and used regu- 

 larly. Any disinfectant used must be good enough to kill a germ by odor 

 as well as contact; and while thoroughly effective as a germ killer, at the 

 same time it must not be injurious to livestock either in odor or contact. 

 It must be non-explosive, non-corrosive, non-poisonous, that is safe 

 and of an agreeable nature, so that it can be used conveniently, and what 

 is more, will be used, not only in barn and stable but in sick room 

 (systematically for prevention and always when occasion needs). To 

 meet all practical purposes the disinfectant used must be an antiseptic, 

 germicide, parasiticide and insecticide all in one. Let us take a moment 

 to go over these four points, which are the four cardinal points in helping 

 Nature to combat unnatural conditions on the stock farm: 



WHAT IS AN An antiseptic is a healing remedy in this sense; that 

 ANTISEPTIC? while it has no healing property in itself, as the heal- 

 ing process is in the living cells of the tissues only, 

 it prevents the germs and bacteria from hindering nature in its healing 

 process. It keeps the tissues germ-free and healthy. Nature with these 



