Show disinfectants DISINFECT ANTS TO CONTROL DISEASES explicit directions given by department part ment of agriculture well weli to pile file for reference irro from the united states department of agriculture formers farmers are constantly advised to disinfect their stables hen houses calf pens etc but do not know how to proceed to do it effectively in all cases the following explicit directions by the united states department of agriculture ri will be found useful and might well be filed for future reference chemical disinfectants disinfect ants aro are used ta good advantage in controlling disease and the following directions for their thelmi use are glyen given 1 sweep ceilings side walls stall partitions floors and other surfaces until free from cobwebs and dust 2 remove all accumulations of 0 filthy by scraping and it if woodwork has bei be i come decayed porous or absorbent should be removed burned and re rei i placed with new material 3 it if the floor Is of earth removal four inches from the surface and ini in places where it shows staining with urine a sufficient depth should be removed to expose fresh earth all earth removed should be replaced with earth from an uncontaminated source or a new floor of concrete may bei bei laid which Is very durable and easily cleaned 4 the entire interior of the stable especially the ceding beeding troughs and drains as well as milking stools and all other implements should be saturated with a disinfectant as cresol compound or carbolic acid six ell ounces to every gallon of water in each case after this has dried the stalls walls and ceilings may be covered with whitewash lime wash to each gallon of which should be added four ounces of chloride of lime 5 all refuse and material from stable and barnyard should be removed to a place not accessible to cattle or hogs the manure should be spreads on fields and turned under in addition the yards should be by sprinkling liberally with a solution of copper sulphate five ounces to a gallon of water the best method of applying the disinfectant and the lime wash is by rn means eans of a strong spray pump such ELS as Is used by this method Is 18 efficient in against most of the contagious contagion and infectious infections diseases of animals and should be applied immediately following any outbreak |