ther person in any way connected with
cattle. Such a herd may be placed under quarantine, with an inspector
appointed to keep the premises under constant surveillance.

This method of quarantine alone, while very satisfactory in many instances,
is rather tardy in obtaining the desired result. The experience of European
Governments already mentioned shows that eradication by this method alone,
when the disease has obtained a foothold, is practically impossible. For
this reason, when the disease breaks out in a country like the United
States, where the contagion is likely to spread rapidly by means of
infected cars, manure, hay, and other feed, and where the results of its
obtaining a firm foothold would be so disastrous, it seems that this method
of temporizing is rather tedious, and more radical steps are required in
order to suppress and eradicate completely the infection in the quickest
and most thorough manner possible.

It would therefore appear better, after judicious appraisement, to
concentrate the expense incident to the extermination of foot-and-mouth
disease by purchasing and slaughtering all affected and exposed cattle. The
carcasses of these animals should be totally destroyed, preferably by
cremation, or otherwise by burying them in a hole 6 feet deep and covering
them with air-slaked lime. The infected stable should be disinfected by
thoroughly cleaning it, scrubbing the floor with hot water, brushing down
all loose dust from the walls, and tearing off all woodwork which is partly
decayed. Then the whole interior of the stable should be disinfected with
one of the following substances:

A 5 per cent solution of pure carbolic acid.

Chlorid of lime, U. S. P. strength (30 per cent available chlorin), 1
pound to 3 gallons of water.

Formaldehyde, 1 quart 40 per cent solution to 5 gallons of water.

A 3 per cent solution of cresol compound, U. S. P., or accepted
substitute therefor, containing at least 50 per cent cresylic acid.

All stable utensils should be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected by the
application of a solution of one of the above-named disinfectants. The
manure should be burned or disinfected and spread over ground (other than
meadow land) that is to be turned under. No other cattle should be
purchased for at least sixty days after the complete disinfection of the
premises.

The success in eradicating the disease by combined quarantine, slaughter,
and disinfection, as pr