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sible to avoid it, go about the pens containing the healthy hogs, 

 but when this is unavoidable, he should disinfect his shoes thor- 

 oughly before going among healthy hogs. 



The carcasses of all pigs that die on a farm should be burned. 

 If this is impossible on account of scarcity of fuel, they should be 

 buried deeply, putting in sufficient quick-lime to destroy the infec- 

 tion. The practice of some farmers of piling the dead hogs in a 

 ditch, at the back of the farm, to decay and become a source of 

 infection to all parts of their own farms, and a menace to the 

 herds of their neighbors, cannot be too strongly condemned. There 

 is a State law against such practice. 



More rigid measures should be enforced to prevent the intro- 

 duction of infection into the valuable "show herds" exhibited at 

 State and county fairs. The officials of the fairs should insist 

 that exhibitors shall not take to the fair animals that have been 

 exposed to the cholera within sixty or ninety days, and that the 

 animals shall be disinfected at the farm before shipment, and 

 transported to the fair in a manner to avoid all possibility of be- 

 coming infected en route; that is, the shipping crates should be 

 new or thoroughly disinfected, the wagon box in which the ani- 

 mals are hauled to the shipping station should be well cleaned and 

 disinfected (with a 5^f solution of carbolic acid,) the crated ani- 

 mals should be put directly from the farm wagon into a car in 

 which they are to be shipped, and should not be permitted to come 

 near the local stock yards at the shipping station. If the animals 

 are to be shipped by freight a car should be selected that has never 

 been used for shipping market hogs; a grain or general merchan- 

 dise car should be used. The disinfection of the wagons or drays 

 used to transfer the hogs from the car to swine quarters 

 at the State Fair should not be neglected. If every exhibitor will 

 take due heed to the precautions which have been given so as to 

 avoid exposure of his "show herd" to any source of infection from 

 the time of starting on the show circuit to his return home, the 

 severe losses that many exhibitors have sustained in the past, will 

 not be repeated, and the State and county fairs and other stock 

 shows will cease to be distributing points for this disease. Proper 

 measures should, of course, be taken, and probably are taken, by 

 officials of every State fair to thoroughly disinfect the quarters 

 which are to be occupied by the show herds entered for exhibit, 

 and have such quarters so arranged that they may easily be kept 

 in a sanitary condition. During the progress of the fair a close 

 watch should be kept on all the lots of hogs for the appearance of 



