Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1915 — SUNLIGHT IS MOST POTENT GERMICIDE [ARTICLE]

SUNLIGHT IS MOST POTENT GERMICIDE

Prevents Contraction or Spread of Disease and Is Essential to Good Health. (By W. A. HENRY, Wisconsin Experiment Station.) Sunlight Is a most effective germicide. To present the contraction or spread of disease it is therefore important that the stables of farm animate be well lighted, with the possible exception of fattening animals feeding for short periods of time. For the maintenance of health, exercise is another essential. The only exceptions to this rule are fattening animals soon to be marketed which make more rapid gains if not allowed to move about too freely. Abundant exercise is of special importance with breeding animals. Farm animals are creatures of habit, and once accustomed to a routine of living show unrest at any change. The feed stable or lot, therefore, should be free from disturbance, and the providing of feed and water should be uniform in time and manner. Animals soon learn when these are to occur and as feeding time approaches the secretions begin pouring from the various digestive glands In anticipation of the coming meal. The system of feeding and watering and the character of the rations should be changed gradually, and only for good cause. In feeding operation a changing period is usually a losing period.