No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Ill 



is distant not less than one hundred feet from any water course, well, 

 spring-, public highway or building used as a house or stable, and in 

 the following manner, to-wit: The grave shall be of such a depth 

 that when the carcass and the parts and products thereof are placed 

 in it, and the grave is filled with earth and the top is smoothed to the 

 level of the surrounding surface, the uppermost part of the carcass 

 and of its parts and products shall be completely covered; and, fur- 

 ther, the grave shall be so protected that the carcass cannot be dug 

 out or exposed by dogs or other animals. Before the carcass and its 

 parts and products are covered with earth they shall be covered with 

 lime, to a depth of not less than three inches. Any other method of 

 destroying or disposing of carcasses, and of the parts and products 

 of carcass, may be practiced that is specifically approved by the State 

 Live Stock Sanitary Board. 



''Section 3. If any person owning an animal that dies while it is 

 afflicted with anthrax, black quarter, hog cholera, swine plague, 

 rabies or glanders, or any other infectious, contagious, germ or para- 

 sitic disease, that is adjudged by the State Live Stock Sanitary Board 

 to be of a dangerous or virulent character, shall, after notification by 

 anyone neglect within twenty-four hours to destroy or dispose of the 

 carcass and its parts and products in accordance with the provisions 

 of section two of this act, the said person shall be deemed guilty of a 

 misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine 

 of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, at the 

 discretion of the court. 



"Section 4. When the carcass and products of any animal that died 

 while afflicted with any of the diseases specified in section one of this 

 act, or of any infectious, contagious, germ or parasitic disease, ad- 

 judged by the State Live Stock Sanitary Board to be of a dangerous 

 or virulent character, is not disposed of or destroyed in one of the 

 ways set forth in section two of this act, and this fact shall be 

 brought to the attention of an agent of the State Live Stock Sanitary 

 Board, the board of health of the township, borough or city in which 

 the death occurs, or in which the carcass of the animal may be; or 

 when this fact shall be brought to the attention of any member of 

 such board of health; or in the event that there is no board of health 

 having jurisdiction, when any township auditor, of a township in 

 which such carcass may be, is notified of the fact; it shall be the duty 

 of the said agent of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board, or member 

 of a board of health, or said health board, or said township auditor, 

 to at once cause the carcass and its parts and products to be disposed 

 of or destroyed in accordance with the methods prescribed in section 

 two of this act. 



"The disposal or destruction of the carcass shall be carried out in a 

 way that is as economical as is compatible with eflSciency and safety, 



