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the open field. Such carelessness inevitably attracts the ever- 

 ready buzzard, and when buzzards begin to appear in a neighbor- 

 hood it is a signal of danger and means a rapid scattering of the 

 disease. 



No matter how busy the season of the year, it will always pay 

 to take time to burn these dead animals, whether they be hogs, 

 horses, cattle, sheep, dogs, chickens, or what not. It is a duty that 

 every man owes himself and his neighbor as well. If for any good 

 reason, such as sickness, a man is unable to attend to this duty, his 

 neighbors should, if necessary, volunteer their aid in helping him 

 in other directions, in order that he may be able to properly 

 dispose of the dead carcasses. So important is this matter of burn- 

 ind dead carcasses that it should be considered as a public duty, and 

 every man should make it his business not only to do it himself, 

 but to see that his neighbor does it as well. Any obstinate refusal 

 to take proper measures to thus prevent spread of disease to other 

 herds should be reported to the proper officials, and made the sub- 

 ject of police action on the part of the State Veterinarian or the 

 local authorities. 



In this instance just mentioned the carelessness of one individ- 

 ual in this respect resulted directly in the spreading of an epidemic 

 along this valley which resulted in total losses of close to $100,000, 

 all of which could have been prevented by a proper knowledge of 

 the dangers of such practices and the manner in which cholera can 

 be and is spread. 



In writing this book I have particularly the desire to show the 

 reader just how cholera is carried from one herd to another; how 

 rapidly and easily it may be scattered through a little carelessness 

 or neglect on the part of one or two individuals, and likewise how 

 readily it may be prevented by a httle care and caution properly 

 applied. If I accomplish this I feel that I will have performed a 

 great service to the American farmer, and will feel amply rewarded 

 for the effort which it has required to get all the material together 

 with which to prepare this volume. At the same time I shall feel 

 that I have accomplished a great deal in the prevention and eradi- 

 cation of hog-cholera, for if stockmen just get a thorough under- 

 standing of the nature of the disease, the character of the infection, 

 the manner in which it is spread, and the measures necessary for its 



