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Live Stock and Dairy 
HOW TO DISINFECT A STABLE. 
The following inquiry has come from 
a reader, and it is of such importance 
that we shall give it more than the 
usual attention in a condensed reply: 
“I wish to disinfect thoroughly some 
old barns I have recently bought, ren¬ 
dering them safe for my cattle. Will 
you advise me what to do and how to 
do it?” 
In disinfecting a stable there are some 
fundamental principles to be borne in 
mind; but unfortunately they are often 
left out of the procedure. It should be 
remembered, for instance, that disease 
is due to infection by germs; that the 
germs are minute and may remain ef¬ 
fective for extended periods in stables 
that are dark, dirty and badly ventilat¬ 
ed, and that any method of disinfection 
that does not also do away with these 
unsanitary conditions and keep them 
permanently away, must fail of success. 
Germs thrive, grow and live in the 
dirt of dark, damp places. So do the 
insect and vegetable parasites which 
prey on farm animals. Sanitation, sug¬ 
gested by the need of sunlight, ventila¬ 
tion and cleanliness, therefore, has the 
twofold effect of lessening the chances 
of infectious disease and keeping ani¬ 
mals free from parasitic foes. Take 
tuberculosis, for example. The disease 
is due, as all of our readers are well 
aware, to the specific bacillus of the 
disease. No case of tuberculosis can 
start without its seed—the bacillus. The 
dark, damp, hot, badly ventilated stable 
cannot produce the disease, any more 
than one can grow a crop of corn or 
potatoes without planting seed corn or 
■ tubers. This is true of all other germ 
diseases. The start of the disease rs 
always in the presence of the specific 
germ. It must next be remembered, how¬ 
ever, that an animal living in a stable 
of the unsanitary sort will be an un¬ 
healthy beast, with impure blood, slug¬ 
gish circulation and overworked, im¬ 
paired excretory organs. Disease once 
started runs the most rapid and fatal 
course in the unhealthy occupants of 
the stable. 
The direct rays of the sun will quickly 
kill the germs that cause tuberculosis. 
The bacillus of tetanus cannot cause 
lockjaw in the presence of fresh air 
(oxygen). The germs which cause glan¬ 
ders, pneumonia, blood poisoning, pus 
formation and pus absorption (pyae¬ 
mia), navel infection, strangles (colt 
distemper), influenza, shipping or stock 
yards fever of horses, purpura haemor- 
rhagica, haemorrhagic septicaemia, an¬ 
thrax, blackleg and some other dis¬ 
eases, including Johne’s disease, conta¬ 
gious abortion and infectious vaginitis, 
all most surely affect animals and lurk 
and linger longest in the stables that 
are not rendered hygienic by lighting, 
frequent cleansing and adequate ventila¬ 
tion. 
With a full appreciation of these es¬ 
sentials, then, disinfection of a stable 
entails the putting in of a sufficient 
amount of window glass to allow free 
entrance of God’s good sunshine, which 
kills germs and is otherwise absolutely 
necessary to health. Each adult animal 
in a stable should have at least four 
square feet of window glass for this 
purpose. Fresh air is an essential, and 
so the stable will have to be perfectly 
ventilated. The King system now pre¬ 
dominates in popularity, because it gives 
entrance to fresh air at the level of the 
ceiling, forces the warm air down upon 
the cattle and through the medium of 
many air shafts in the walls and con¬ 
necting 'with high chimneys in the roof, 
sucks out the vitiated air from the 
ground surface. True disinfection ren¬ 
ders the provision of some such sys¬ 
tem of ventilation imperative in every 
stable. 
See to these things first; then remove 
from the stable everything that possibly 
can harbor germs. Tear out and burn 
all saturated, porous, ancient timber of 
mangers, feed boxes and hay racks, 
walls, floors, partitions and other parts 
of the internal fittings of the stable. 
Add to the cremating fire all old bed¬ 
ding soiled feed and trash. Dig out 
four inches of the dirt floor and put in 
new, clean earth, or a clay and cinder 
compost mixture wetted and tamped 
down; or, far better than either, put in 
a concrete floor. Scrub and scrape the 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
remaining woodwork or stonework. Get 
the dirt out of every nook, crevice, 
crack, cranny and corner. Get rid of 
those festoons of cobwebs. They are 
filthy, germ laden, yet often left by the 
superficial cleaner of the stable. 
Now saturate everything, above, be¬ 
low and on every side, with a strong, 
effective disinfecting solution. That 
means a solution that will actually kill 
each germ it touches; not merely stun 
it, make it weak, wobbly, or sick at the 
stomach. Such a disinfectant may not 
have a bad smell. Some of the poorest 
of disinfectants smell the worst. Use 
a solution of six ounces of formalde¬ 
hyde to the gallon of water; or a 1-50 
mixture of commercial coal tar disin¬ 
fectant; or compound solution of cre- 
sol; or two or -three ounces of liquid 
carbolic acid (95 per cent pure) to a 
gallon of water. Put the liquid on with 
a spray pump which forces it into every 
place possibly occupied by germs and 
follow it with a thorough spraying with 
fresh-made lime wash containing a 
pound of chloride of lime to each three 
gallons. 
The following formula for lime wash, 
with an added disinfectant, is also rec¬ 
ommended by the Bureau of Animal In¬ 
dustry: To prepare five gallons: Slake 
iy 2 pounds of lime, using hot water if 
necessary to start action. Mix to a 
creamy consistency with water. Stir 
in 15 fluid ounces of 95 per cent pure 
liquid carbolic acid and make up to five 
gallons. Stir thoroughly and strain 
through a wire sieve, if it is to be ap¬ 
plied by means of a spray nozzle. 
Where disease has been known to exist 
we not only disinfect the entire stable 
according to the above plan, but also 
flood the floors with the lime and dis¬ 
infectant wash combination. 
A. S. ALEXANDER, V. S. 
Cost of Pasturing Sheep. 
In my immediate section I know of no 
sheep which have been pastured out for 
many years. Formerly there were such, 
and I ' have paid two cents a week per 
head. I have frequently bought lambs or 
sheep to feed during the Winter, and had 
them pastured in the hill sections, from 
whence they came, at about that rate. 
Some are occasionally so pastured now. 
This is on cheap land, yet very good pas¬ 
ture when properly fenced. On tillable land 
that price would not be enough. Much 
would depend upon the size and age of 
the sheep. Large ones would mean about 
four or five to equal a cow. With smaller 
ones, perhaps twice that number. Two 
dollars a month is the usual rate for pas¬ 
turing a cow. In my opinion that price is 
too low for good pasture on any land 
which can be profitably cropped. One can 
figure on the number of sheep at cow 
rates and draw his own conclusions. There 
must be better fence for sheep than cattle. 
The former will, however, clean up and 
destroy an immense quantity of weeds and 
undesirable plants, edw’d van alstyne. 
Columbia Co., N. Y. 
Five cents each per week is the only 
price that I ever knew about being paid 
for pasturing sheep. That was some years 
ago. I do not know of any pasture being 
hired within the last few years. The 
usual way used to be to rent a field, or 
rough lot (bush lot or new ground), and 
turn in what sheep it would carry. 
Bath, N. Y. M. W. 
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/-Calves Without Milk\ 
Cost only half as much as the milk 
raised calves. Increase your 
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The perfect milk substi¬ 
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Factory 
Waukegan, III, 
Don’t Cut Out hock oMuiKsmsroK 
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will remove them and leave no 
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October 19, 
When you write advertisers mention The 
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THRIFTY 
STOCK 
Good-Bye 
to Hand Milking 
Put an end to the long hours of 
drudgery and the continual worrying over 
the hired help problem. Let the wonderful 
SHARPLES 
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do for you what it is already doing for hun¬ 
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In two hours. It enables you to cut down your 
labor cost more than half. You can milk any cow 
in your dairy for less than lc. You can make a 
clear extra profit of $15 more per year from every 
cow you own. You can, if you wish, double your 
herd and much more than double your profits. 
It accomplishes all these things without the slightest 
possibility of injury to your animals. 
“The Teat Cup With the 
Upward Squeeze’' 
is a Sharpies patent that removes the last possible 
objection to tne Mechanics i Milker. 
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NEWTON’S 
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UKUm □ 5 WARRINCR 
STANCHION 
H. A. Moyer, Syracuse, 
N. Y., says “they 
SAVE COST 
in feed in one winter.” 
Send address for speci¬ 
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Free booklet explains about the Wind, Throat, Stomach 
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Economical to use; dose is small. Safe for the colt, 
adult or mare in foal. $1.00 per can at Dealers’or 
express prepaid. 
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PAYS 
MORE MONEY 
GIVES 
MORE SATISFACTION.! 
NO STOCK CAN THRIVE IF PESTERED 
WITH LICE,TICHS,MITES, FLEAS, 
SCAB,MANGE,AND OTHER SKIN 
DISEASES. 
TO CLEAN OUT THESE 
PARASITES, GUARD AGAINST 
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES, 
CLEANSE, PURIFY, AND 
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■A 
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U.S.A. 
m 
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25% More Milk 
'Self-regulating; no leveling 
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growers and everybody with 
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year. HOBSON COMPANY 
WORKS, Box 45, Easton, Pa. 
COOK YOUR FEED and SAVE 
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With Dumping Caldron. Empties 
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food for stock. Also make Dairy and 
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The Recognized 
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Dairymen pronounce the PORTER barn 
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Push the extra cockerels to market condition and turn . them into cash. 
Bring the pullets to maturity, busy shelling out high-priced eggs. That 
means profit for you 1 
Poultry Regulator 
is just what is needed now. It assists digestion and upon this growth and 
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Get the houses in shape for winter. Spray them with 
Disinfectant 
the great destroyer of disease germs and vermin. “Your money back If 
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