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CATTLE, TIIEIR DISEASES. 
recovery we still find masses of from one to two pound? weight waiting 
for the slow process of solution. Whenever there are indicatio‘ns^ef4^® 
existence of such encysted masses, the animal should be looked on as in- 
fectious, and disposed of as summarily as if in the acute stages of the 
disease. Mr. Law gives the following rules when the disease is suspected : 
1. Remove all litter, manure, feed and fodder from the stables ; scrape 
the walls and floor — wash them if necessary ; remove all rotten wood. 
2. Take chloride of lime one-half lb., crude carbolic acid, 4 ozs., and 
water, 1 gal ; add freshly-burned quick-lime till thick enough to make a 
good whitewash ; whitewash with this the walls, roof, floors, posts, man 
gers, drains and other fixtures in the cow stables. 
3. Wash so as to thoroughly cleanse all pails, buckets, stools, forks, 
shovels, brooms and other movable articles used in the buildings ; then 
wet them all over with a solution of carbolic acid 1-2 lb., water 4 gal. 
4. When the empty building has been cleansed and disinfected as 
above, close the doors and windows, place in the center of the building a 
metallic dish holding 1 lb. flowers of sulphur ; set fire to this and let the 
cow-shed stand closed until filled with the fumes for at least two hours. 
The above should suffice for a close stable capable of holding twelve 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 quicklime, two bushels to every load ; 
then hauled by horses to fields to which no cattle have access, and at 
once plowed under by horses. 
6 . The pits, where the manure has been, must be cleansed and washed 
With the disinfectant fluid ordered for the building. 
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 5 
adding more sulphur, pinch by pinch, as long as the cattle can stand it 
without coughing. Continue for a month. 
8 . Give two drachms powdered copperas (green vitriol) daily to each 
cow in meal or grains ; or, divide 1 lb. copperas into 50 powders, and 
give one daily to each adult animal. 
9. Do not use for the surviving cattle any feed, fodder or litter that 
has been in the same stable? with the sick. They may safely be used for 
horses and sheep. 
What to So. 
There is only one remedy — entire isolation of the herd infected. Th« 
prompt killing and slashing of the hides of diseased animals, deep burial, 
