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Show To Keep Animals Free From All Parasites Clean herds, clean ground, clean stables, clean barns, clean pastures, properly drained, are the chief weapons weap-ons to keep animals free from parasites. para-sites. Plowing and cropping are measures meas-ures that farmers should employ In their operations with the Idea of fighting fight-ing parasitic menace. There Is no better way to disinfect the soil than by plowing. Overstocking should be avoided. Even though the pastures are rotated, overstocking concentrates the infection and increases the danger of the parasitic menace. The time to fight parasitic diseases is before they appear. Careless methods ' which repeatedly expose susceptible animals to polluted pol-luted and infected soil, may ultimately ultimate-ly bring on parasitic diseases. The McLean County system of swine sanitation sani-tation has done a great deal in the control of worms In swine, as well as other diseases. Sheep and poultry sanitation programs are merely simple sim-ple procedures to avoid parasites. |