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located back from its banks, and the outbreak soon covered a 

 radius of several square miles and involved a loss of thousands of 

 animals. 



Here, again, we have an example of an outbreak which was 

 brought about by pure neglect and ignorance of the methods of 

 spreading hog-cholera. Had this man known that the hog-cholera 

 virus would be spread through the water of this creek into which he 

 threw the dead carcasses it is not Hkely that he would have wilfully 



Fig. 55. — View of rear of country slauiiliin-liouse. Note drainage passes 

 down into small stream. This is one of the methods of spreading hog-cholera. 

 No community should permit such conditions to exist (U. S. Bureau Animal 

 Industry Reports). 



sent the disease speeding down stream to destroy the herds of his 

 neighbors We must all learn the dangers of such practices, and 

 see that our neighbors become educated along this line also, in 

 order that such carelessness, which borders on the verge of being 

 criminal, shall be avoided. 



In the eastern part of central Illinois a few years ago a slaughter- 

 house was erected just outside the city limits of one of the prosper- 

 ous small cities of the farming belt. As is very frequently the 



