ime, crude carbolic acid,
corrosive sublimate, formalin, formaldehyde, gas, cresol, etc.

In the disinfection of stables and premises it is essential to execute
the work in a most thorough manner. This may be satisfactorily
accomplished by carrying out the following directions:

1. Sweep ceilings, side walls, stall partitions, floors, and other
surfaces until free from cobwebs and dust.

2. Scrape away all accumulation of filth, and if woodwork has become
decayed, porous, or absorbent, it should be removed, burned, and
replaced with new material.

3. If floor is of earth, remove 4 inches from the surface, and in places
stained with urine a sufficient depth should be replaced to expose fresh
earth. All earth removed should be replaced with earth from an
uncontaminated source; it would be better still to lay a new floor of
concrete, which is very durable and easily cleaned.

4. All refuse and material from stable and barnyard should be removed to
a place not accessible to cattle or hogs. The manure should be spread on
fields and turned under, while the wood should be burned.

5. The entire interior of the stable, especially the feeding troughs and
drains, should be saturated with a disinfectant, as liquor cresolis
compositus (U. S. P.), or carbolic acid, 6 ounces to every gallon of
water, to which 4 ounces of chlorid of lime should be added. The best
method of applying the disinfectant and the lime wash is by means of a
strong spray pump, such as those used by orchardists. This method is
efficient in disinfection against most of the contagious and infectious
diseases of animals, and should be applied immediately following any
outbreak, and, as a matter of precaution, it may be used once or twice
yearly.

6. It is important that arrangements be made to admit a plentiful supply
of sunlight and fresh air by providing an ample number of windows,
thereby eliminating dampness, bad odor, and other insanitary conditions.
Good drainage is also very necessary.

If the use of liquor cresolis compositus, carbolic acid, or other
coal-tar products is inadmissible because of the readiness with which
their odor is imparted to milk and other dairy products, bichlorid of
mercury may be used in proportion of 1 to 800, or 1 pound of bichlorid
to 100 gallons of water. All portions of the stable soiled with manure,
however, should first be thoroughly scraped and cleaned, as the albumin
contained in manure would otherwise greatly dimin