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sheep and cattle stables when in the judgment of the official veterinarian this 

 ia sufficient and when the veterinary sanitary regulations will permit. 



2. Wood utensils, racks and mangers and board linings are to be taken 

 out as far as is necessary. Wood-work with a torn or sphntered surface must 

 be removed to a sufficient extent to obtain a smooth surface. The pieces of 

 wood removed and all decaying or rotten wood, or wood that is otherwise 

 unsuitable for use, are to be burned. 



3. From clay walls a layer of sufficient depth is to be removed. Damaged 

 or loose parts of the plaster or rough-cast on the walls are to be removed and 

 disposed of in the same manner as the manure. 



4. Loose paving and planks in the floor are to be removed. The earth 

 under the flooring which is wet with excretions must be dug out, and the 

 material removed is to be disposed of in the same manner as the manure. 

 Stone and sound wood-work in which the moisture has not penetrated deeply 

 can be again used after the damaged parts have been removed. 



5. In tightly joined (impervious) floors, in case of necessity, the damaged 

 places in the binding material or in the material itself, or cracks in the latter, 

 can be scraped out and the spaces, after thorough cleaning and disinfection, 

 can be filled in with new material. Similar conditions in the walls, pillars, 

 stall partitions, pits, troughs, gutters and canals may be treated in the same 

 manner. 



6. Lime or earth floors (puddled clay and the like) should have the upper 

 layer removed and the moist places dug out. The part removed is to be 

 treated like the manure. 



7. Earth and sand floors, in so far as they are wet with excretions, are to 

 be removed to the depth of at least 4 inches. 



8. The ceiling, walls, fittings (mangers, troughs, racks, posts, pillars, 

 stalls, doors, door posts, windows, etc.), floor, manure gutters, canals, troughs 

 and pits are to be thoroughly cleaned by scouring with hot soda solution (a 

 solution of at least 8 pounds of washing soda to 100 quarts of hot water) or 

 hot soap solution (8 pounds of soft soap dissolved in 100 quarts of hot water). 

 The cleaning is only to be regarded as complete when all excretions from dis- 

 eased or suspected animals and all dirt have been removed and everything 

 has an entirely clean appearance. When necessary, scouring sand may be 

 used with the hot soda or soap solution. The cleaning must include all parts 

 of the stable and other places where animals are kept. Special attention is 

 to be given to depressions in the floor, comers, niches, joints, cracks, scratches, 

 etc. In stables and other compartments, the ceilings are cleaned first, as 

 a rule, then the walls and interior fittings and lastly the floors, manure 

 gutters, etc. 



When the official veterinarian considers it unnecessary, stable ceilings and 

 the upper parts of the walls which have not been soiled with the eliminations 



