In this connection it must be remembered that the chief source of the virus is the saliva.

When the disease makes its appearance, the sick should be promptly removed from the healthy, the bedding should be burned, the mangers and fittings, baskets and buckets, etc, well scoured with a strong solution of soda, and freely disinfected. The floor of the stable should be scraped, well brushed out, and dressed with carbolic solution, or well covered with lime.