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Disinfectants, Deodizers and Fertilizers. — By the use 

 of disinfectants we may prevent disease, give health to 

 our animals, and make them more useful and valuable. 

 And the thrift of many a farmer depends upon the accu- 

 mulation and application of his fertilizers, which is all 

 the bank he need be directly interested in. Haifa peck 

 of onions, halved and run on a string, will prevent a 

 horse from being infected with any kind of disease, if 

 hung over him in the stall, even if one diseased stands 

 in the next stall to him. The use of asafcetida (as be- 

 fore stated) and the chloride of lime, brought to a solu- 

 tion and applied to the ceiling and mangers where dis- 

 eased animals have been fed, are undoubtedly tw-o of the 

 best articles employed in this way as disinfectants. But 

 this is not all that can be done in this respect. Where 

 horses are confined in stables, the effluvia or gases that 

 are continually arising from filthy ones, are very injurious 

 to their health, and are often the exciting cause of vari- 

 ous diseases. This is w^itnessed in our cities most, or 

 where there are a great many of them crowded together. 

 Nor is this all the harm that is done by the stench that 

 arises from large stables being filled w^th these useful 

 animals. The common, or atmospheric air, becomes 

 overcharged with these poisonous gases, and is thus 

 drawn into the lungs of the horse, yes, and men's too, 

 often causing violent and loathsome disease in both. 

 There is a remedy for this, or an agent that will in a 

 great measure prevent this evil, which is to be found in 

 the common or muck earth, brought from the forest. 

 One peck of either of these strewn under the horse at 

 night, and then covered with straw to bed him in the 



