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Show I Disposal of I W Dead Animals Hj Burying or Burning All Carcasses BJ Will Reduce the Spread of BJ Infectious Diseases BJ Often when animals dio on the BJ farm no disposal Is mado of their BJ carcasses other than to drag them BJ Into a field or n nearby woods, whoro BJ they aro left on tho surfaco of tho BJ ground to decompose or to bo eaten BJ by buzzards, crows, dogs and other HJ scavengers, or animals which feed HJ on carrion. HJ This practlco can not bo too so- BJ vorely condemned, be'eauso it con- H tributes seriously to tho dlssomlna- R tlon of disease germs and tho pcrpct- BJ uatlon of infectious diseases. BJ Tho carcasses of animals which HJ havo succumbed to Infectious discos- BJ eB liko anthrax, hog cholera, block- BJ leg, tuberculosis, otc, aro charged H with myriads of virulent dlseaso BJ germs and Just as long as thoy re- BJ main whero scavengers can reach S them and portions of, thorn can bo jM carried away promiscuously, thoy jw aro a dangerous menaco over a largo Hf territory to all animals which aro 11- BJ nblo to bo attacked by dlseaso germs, Hf Even carcasses of animals which BJ havo died from other causes than in- BJ fectious diseases, unless thoy are (11b- HJ posed of in a proper way aro a Bourco HJ of danger. Loft on tho Burfaco of J tho ground thoir odor soon invites J scavengers to congregato and bring BJ with them tho Infectious material BJ with which thoy may havo bocomo B contaminated by eating carrion else- BJ whero. Dend animals on tho farm should bo burled deep enough to prevent them from being dug up again, or they should bo burned. To burn largo carcasses like thoso of dead horses and cattlo Is difficult and laborious la-borious and requires a lnrgo amount of fuel. In most Instances it I Is moro economical to bury them. All animals which havo .died of infee tlous diseases and nre burled Bhould bo covored with u heavy layer of llmo boforo tho graves nro closed. In tht- winter, when the ground Is frozen, It is moro difficult to dig graves than at other seasons of tho year, but it Ib Just In cold weather that disease germs remain allvo and virulent longest In dead organic matter mat-ter and that scacngers travel tho longest distances, have tho best ap-jictltee, ap-jictltee, and aro most likely to carry car-ry dlseaso germs on nnd in their bodies. Tho oxtra trouble of digging graves in tho winter Is very easily offset by tho greater danger it counteracts. coun-teracts. Low temperature prevents tho multiplication of dlseaso germs, but many kinds of disease germs .ro not killed or deprived of their pornl clous possibilities by exposure to a lower temperaturo than tho lowest reached during nn ley, arctic winter. Everywhoro farmers not only Bhould attend to tho proper and safe disposal of tho bodies of thoir own animals which unfortunately dlo, but thoy should insist on the proper disposal dis-posal of tho bodies of all animals which dla anywhero In tho regions In which their farms aro located. |