Disinfection. 87 



For stables our printed instructions embrace what fol 

 lows: 



"1. Eemove all litter, manure, feed and fodder from 

 the stables ; scrape the walls and floor ; wash them i. 

 necessary ; remove all rotten wood. 



"2. Take Chloride of Lime one-half lb., Crude Car 

 bolic Acid 4 ozs., and water one gallon ; add freshly 

 burned Quicklime till thick enough to make a good white- 

 wash ; whitewash with this the whole roof, walls, floors, 

 posts, mangers, drains, and other fixtures in the cow sta- 

 bles. 



"3. "Wash so as to thoroughly cleanse all pails, buck- 

 ets, stools, forks, shovels, brooms, and other movable ar- 

 ticles used in the buildings, then wet them all over with 

 a solution of Carbolic Acid one-half lb., water one 

 gallon. 



"4. When the empty building has been cleansed and 

 disinfected as above, close the doors and windows, place 

 in the centre of the building a metallic dish holding one 

 lb. Flowers of Sulphur ; set fire to this and let the cow 

 shed stand closed and filled with the fumes for at least 

 two hours. The above should suffice for a close stable 

 capable of holding 12 cows. For larger or very open 

 buildings more will be required. 



"5. The manure from a stable where sick cattle have 

 been kept must be turned over and mixed with Quick- 

 Ume, 2 bushels to every load ; then hauled by horses to 

 fields to which no cattle have access, and at once plough- 

 ed under by horses. 



" 6. The pits, where the manure has been, must be cleans- 

 ed and washed with the disinfectant fluid ordered for 

 the building (Sec. 2). 



" 7. The surviving herd should be shut up in a close 

 building for half an hour once or twice a day, and made 

 to breathe the fumes of burning sulphur. Close doors 

 and windows, place a piece of paper on a clean shovel, 

 lay a few pinches of Flowers of Sulphur upon it, and set 

 it on fire, adding more sulphur, pinch by pinch, as long 

 as the cattle can stand it without coughing. Continue for 

 a month. 



