| Show sanitation BEST STOCK SAFEGUARD even though the united states Is now cow the safest country in the world I 1 in n which to own live stock the great losses which are being caused by animal diseases may be expected to continue until block owners and nd all those interested in the production ot of live stock are educated to the necessity of 0 careful sanitary measures this Is tile the opinion of workers in animal pathology and hygiene division of the college of agriculture university of illinois sanitation Is one of the best insurance policies that a livestock live hye stock breeder can use to protect his live stock against disease the animal pathologists say proper sanitary measures rigorously applied and carried out are perhaps the best weapons known for the control and eradication of contagious and infectious diseases of animals it Is true that such buell measures will not alone suffice they would however prevent the outbreak and dissemination of many dib diseases eases and unthrifty conditions for it Is well known that most if not all disease producing organisms live in filth and improperly built poorly ventilated and buildings sheds and feeding lots lota veterinary medicine Is gradually undergoing a change in the methods used for combating disease F formerly tt it was the practice to consider as more important th the treatment of the individual animal today the tendency Is to turn more to the development of methods whereby disease can be prevented by sanitation hog ebo cholera lerg which was the scourge of the hog bog industry at one time and made the raising of hogs bogs more or loss acsa of a gamble may be prevented when serum and virus properly prepared are administered by well trained aria and experienced veterinarians veterinarian the intestinal roundworm or of the hog which threatened to make ho hog raising unprofitable in many sections sect fons lons of the united states Is now bin being effectively controlled by the use of sanitary principles developed by veterinarians erin eriD arians where live stock men have followed these principles a larger percentage of the pigs farrowed furrowed far rowed are saved there are re fewer unthrifty pl pigs g and greater gains are made with the same amoun of feed |
