Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1917 — HOUSE CLEANING IN BARN IS ESSENTIAL [ARTICLE]

HOUSE CLEANING IN BARN IS ESSENTIAL

Just as Important for Farmer to Have Periodical Bout With Dirt as for Housewife. (By GEORGE H. GLOVER, Colorado Agricultural College, Fort Collins, Colo.) Every housekeeper, who deserves the name, has a general housecleaning at least twice a year. The carpets come up and the curtains down, and everything from the roof to the floor in the furnace room is either dusted, scrubbed, varnished or painted. With the farmer’s wife, spring and fall housecleaning is looked upon as a duty that is almost sacred and is kept inviolate. But who ever heard of a farmer haying even an annual barn cleaning? True the manure is hauled out, usually in the springtime, in order to make it possible tp get the horses in and out the door, but that is all. If farmers would ma’ke it a regular job to clean the premises once or twice every year, infectious diseases among farm animals could be controlled, and the mortality of 6 to 10 per cent from calf scours, hog cholera, blackleg, contagious abortion and other diseases might be reduced to the minimum.