Show PREVENT SPREAD OF VIRULENT DISEASES Dead Animals Should Be Buried Deep or Burned Left on Surface of Ground Their Soon Invites Scavengers to Congregate Con Con- and to Bring Infectious infect Material l. l Prepared by the United States Department Department Depart Depart- ment of ot Agriculture The carcasses of animals which have succumbed to Infectious diseases like anthrax hog cholera blackleg tuberculosis tuber tuber- etc are charged with myrIads myriads myr myr- lads of virulent disease germs and nail just as long as they remain where re scavengers can reach them and portions portions por porI of them can be carried away promiscuously they ate ace re r dangerous menace over a large territory to all nIl animals which are liable to be attacked attacked at at attacked tacked by disease germs Even carcasses carcasses carcasses car car- casses of animals which have died from other causes than infectious diseases diseases dis dis- eases eases unless they are are re disposed of t Ina in ina ina a proper way are a source of ot dun dan ger Left on the surface of or the ground their odor soon h invites scavengers scavengers scavengers engers to congregate nn and to bring with them the Infectious material with which they may have become contamInated contaminated contaminated by eating carrion elsewhere Dead animals on the farm should be buried burled deep enough to prevent them from being dug up again or they should be burned To Io burn burls large carcasses carcasses carcasses car car- casses casses like Ilke those of dead horses and cattle is difficult and laborious and requires requires requires re re- re- re quires a large quantity of fuel In Inmost Inmost Inmost most instances It Is more economical to bury them All animals which have died from infectious diseases and are buried should be covered with a heavy layer of ot lime before the graves ar are closed In the winter when the ground Is frozen it is more difficult to fo dig graves qs than at at other seasons of the year but It is just in cold weather r that disease e germs germs' remain alive and long virulent longest longest long long- est in de dead ad d organic matter and that scavengers travel longest the longest distances dis di have the best hest appetites and andare andare are most likely to germs on find and in their bodies The extra of digging graves In inthe the the winter winter winter win win- ter Is is easily offset by the greater danger danger danger dan dan- ger It co counteracts ts Low temperature prevents the multiplication of ot disease germs germs b but t many kinds of disease germs are not killed or deprived of their pernicious possibilities by exposure exposure ex ex- to a lower temperature than the lowest reached during an icy arctic winter Everywhere E farmers not only should attend to the prop r and safe disposal of tile bodies of their own animate animals which unfortunately die but they thy should Insist on the proper disposal of the bodies of ot all animals which die anywhere in the regions in which their farms are arc located |