Show VACCINE FACTS TO BE remembered concluded train from last issue IS anthrax tit arax is s an ent entirely re y different erent disease from blackleg and blackleg vaccine does not act as a preventive against anthrax anthrax vaccine Is not distributed by tho the department art ment the symptoms are easily recognized Thedis easo usually enters the body of 0 the animal through somo some minute puncture caused by a thorn a spine grass burs or similar objects the infection Is followed b the development of a tumor or swelling under the skin this Is seen on oil tile the thigh or sholder tile the swollen tissues becoming badly discolored a fact which la Is responsible for or the popular names of blackleg or blace quarter these tumors increase rapidly 1 ili size and may cover a largo large portion of 0 the body they are cool tc the touch and covered with dry par skin when struck the has accumulated in fit then causes a clear resonant sound As the swelling increases fever and loss of app appetite betito occur and the animal ceases e it moves around with difficulty lies down frequently and when water to Is near at hand drinks drink at short intervals but only a little at a time Wit willivery livery few exceptions the disease Is 18 fatel death ring from 12 to 36 hours after the first symptoms occasionally however animal have been known to re cover tile the of recovery ha led to attempt nt at treatment which however a are re not to bo be recommended thee dually bonit in protho bleeding and violent percle par cle the bricken animal being dragged around by a rope attached to a saddle horse tor for a number of miles R kven ven if the victim survives such finch drastic rc re nildes the alio treatment res results its in ili tile spir spreading ding of it trull trail of Infect infected eil blood over a consider considerably ablo area and will probably be 10 responsible nible ultimately tor for the pread of the infer infect t tion to olier animal it is moreover most uncertain whether any appreciable number of caes are saved in fit this way at it Is in both wiser und and moro morn lium iino ane to kill tile infected animal alli OH as soon us its tile lie Il sease has b been positively dl diagnosed and to destroy the carcass nt at one once whenever Alli enever possible it Is better to burn than tc bury tile dead cattle it lias been been demonstrated chilt within the lie ground the spores of the blackleg eirls retain their disease producing properties for years so no mater how low deeply they are arc burled buried it is always possible that they may be brought to the surface by a number of agencies among others earthworms heat on the other hand quickly destroys the eirls the fresh varla eirls la Is also more easily destroyed than the dry ark and therefore immediate action is desirable |