Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-01
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keeping Live SGCCH Healthy
What efforts should we make to
keep our live stock healthy? IS it
practicable to Go so? If the question
e of hygiene on the farm is neglected
will serious losses follow? These
are very pertinent questions and ones
to which we need to direct our care
y full thought and attention at this
time. There has been a notable in
crease in the number, variety and
value of our live stock in the south
eastern states in the last few years
In Georgia alone our farmers have
more than S2O0,000,000 invested in
farm animals. Hence a knowledge
of what constitutes hygiene is mat
ter of the utmost Importance.
Let us be sure that we understand
what this word means at the outset
and then we will have a more intel
ligent view of the discussion which
follows. Hygiene is that science
which relates to the preservation of
health 1t is primarily concerned
with what We know as sanitation,
BY sanitation we mean the mainte-
nance of those conditions in and
around animals which are favorable
to health. 1t is just as necessary
that animals be kept under sanitary
conditions as human beings. In the
a Spanish American war thousands of
soldiers lost their lives on account
of typhoid fever. brought to them
which travelled from the latrines to
the dining room unmoleSted. In
those days the screen, now so COM
monty used in house, store, hotel and
restaurant, was practically unknown
and those who were foolish" enough
to install them were regarded as US
ing silly fads. After the great num-
Der of deaths which occurred among
our soldiers, no ever, it appeared
that screening was a more important
matter fhan fn no OF
first, and so in many communities
the dreaded typhoid fever has been
practically controlled through the in
stftution of reasonably sanitary con-
ditions and the screening of houses.
Eyer Every year we , pay a tremendous en-
feres with the vigor and ability of
our people to work and causes thou
sands of animals to die. These losses
are directly attributable to our ig-
noring the elementary pronciples of
sanitation and so providing our ami
mails with surroundings which will
insure their being kept in a healthy
condition. In other words, a very
satisfactory definition for sanitation
might be cleanliness. and very par
',ticular cleanliness at that, 1t is
quite in line with the old adage
which says that Cleanliness is next
to GollineSs." ,l.. -,
There is a duty and responsibility
resting OH every good citizen with
reference to this matter, and it is
particularly true in the case of the
man who maintains live stock and who
expects to reap a profit from the main
ntaDance of farm anfm7Is. rnrough
sanitation we may minimize the dis
ease of farm animals GHd SO prevent
the great losses which occur from
death o. from the unthrifty condi-
ton which effects rlann of our ami
mails and, prevents their proper
growth G~d deVnlopment. If we
wor'd i've nnim"'s 10 thnir best we
u7uSt n7r~"H' ther7' lr7Tor rnH- s. 1T aid
haH 'hf''' sl'~ruun d''.~s. It, is iust as
roNoG@" ~ that it be done in their
coy" &c +-"'he ir+n~c~t IF human BE-
IT, N'o"n over. onA roai1tNining ami
r'"'- '-''"'-'1 remember th9t the nan