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ing the past season. In one instance, ant^hrax was known to be 

 endemic on a certain farm and all animals on that farm were vac- 

 cinated. The owner bought some young cattle that were not vac- 

 cinated, turned them into his pasture and three or four died of 

 anthrax. On another farm anthrax appeared for the first time in 

 1900, The cattle and horses were vaccinated and there were no 

 losses until the winter of 1901, when one horse died of this disease, 

 thirteen months after vaccination. In repeated instances, many 

 cattle have died of anthrax on a single farm or on several farms along 

 a stream and the disease has stopped completely as soon as vaccina- 

 tion was practiced. 



By vaccination it is possible not only to save the animals pro- 

 tected, but ft is also possible to prevent the establishment of new 

 centers of infection. 



The following law was enacted by the last legislature: 



AN ACT 



To provide for the prevention of the spread of disease from the car- 

 casses of animals that die of dangerous or virulent diseases, or are 

 killed while afllicted with such diseases; to provide for the safe dis- 

 posal or destruction of such carcasses; to authorize the State Live 

 Stock Sanitary Board to make regulations for the enforcement of 

 this act; and to provide penalties for the violations under this act, 

 and of the regulations that may be made under it by the State Live 

 Stock Sanitary Board. 



"Section 1. Be it enacted, &c.. That when any domestic animal may 

 die of, or be killed while afflicted with, an infectious, contagious, germ 

 or parasitic disease, adjudged by the State Live Stock Sanitary Board 

 to be of a dangerous or virulent character, and in particular when 

 any domestic animal may die or be killed while it is afflicted with any 

 one of the diseases known as anthrax, black quarter, hog cholera, 

 swine plague, rabies or glanders, the owner or owners of such animal 

 shall at once destroy or dispose of the carcass of such animal by one 

 of the methods herein provided. 



"Section 2. The methods of destruction or disposal shall be of a kind 

 that will completely destroy or securely sequester the poison, germ, 

 parasite or infective agent of the disease with which the animal was 

 afflicted at the time of death. The following methods of destruction 

 or disposal shall be allowed: One. Complete burning or cremation of 

 the carcass, and of all of its parts and products. Two. Boiling the 

 carcass and all of its parts and products in water, or heating the 

 same with steam, at the temperature of boiling water, for at least two 

 hours. Three. l>urying the carcass and all of its parts and products 

 in a place that ip not subject to overflow from ponds or streams, that 



