The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-10-12
Brown Felt Toque, With Velvet Crown
HOUSEHOLD DISINFECTANTS.

Carbolic Soap-Shave and melt bar of
mottled CASTLE soap. The melting is best
done in a water bath. so there shall be
no danger Of scorching. Beat into the
melted soap. little at a time. half a
pint Of carbolic acid solution Of so per
cent strength. Keep on beating, with
the soap still in the water bath for at
least q quarter Of an hour. Mold into
small cakes or balls, and let stand
month in dry place. Suds made from
this soap or scrubbing with the soap it.
self will quickly make an end Of infec-
ton in glass, pottery and metal. With
wooden vessels burning is the only thing.
Carbolic soap suds however. will destroy
germs in woodwork If they can be APP
piled to it boiling hot.
Bichloride Of Mercury-The king Of all
antiseptics is bichloride Of mercury
more Familiarity known as corrosive sub.
| Innate. Dissolve four ounces of this salt
| In a gallon of boiling rain water. Let It
cool before using. For most purposes
this can be diluted one-half. 1t Is very
nearly the basis of all antiseptics. Surgi.
cal instruments are kept covered with
the solution to the very moment Of u.s.
ing; only thus can they remain in the
state as known as 'surgically Clean"
Sulphate Solutions--An these have spe-
cial uses in disinfection, yet are prepared
practically the same way. Sulphate Of
iron, known colloquially as copperas or
green vitrOl, may serve as an example.
Dissolve a pound Of the salt in a gallon
Of water at slow heat. Six hours should
suffice. The result is a saturated solu-
tn = y,o1N
flushing rain pipes in fair condition. A
neglected water closet which gives out
foul odors should have the solution at
full strength and boiling hot. Open
drains, as about stables or from kitchens
without plumbing fixtures, also need to
have the copperas water boiling hot,
though it need not be more than one
third strength. Dry copperas scattered
through the litter of a stable or about
poultry runs helps to sweeten them and
prevent infection.
Blue vitriol or bluestone, technically
sulphate of copper. is less disinfectant
than a preventive or, rather, germi-
eide. Make the solution as with "copper"
as but dilute with four times as much
xater before using, Mixed in whitewash
and applied boiling hot it banishes in
lection from kennels, stables or poultry
houses Its main use Is to destroy the
grain smuts, all due to germ infection
Of the seed. Many garden seeds grow
more vigorously for wetting with the
bluestone water and drying we'll before
sowing.
White vitriol, sulphate of zinc, Is a
powerful astringent and effective germ1-
eide. Like all the other vitriol, the
solution of it needs to be carefully
handled. Dissolve four ounces of the salt
in half gallon of boiling water strain
in half gallon of boiling water, strain
and bottle, taking care that the bottles
are very clean. Use the solution to
cleanse and disinfect sores. especially in
dolent old sores, diluting it with five
times its bulk of tepid water. 1t is es-
pecially good on the frost bitten feet of
poultry or frost bitten combs Of chickens.
and, discreetly used. for the ailment
known as "scaly leg"