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years, and the only way in which the breeding of hogs can be 

 encouraged and brought up to its former firm footing is by a 

 united effort on the part of everyone connected directly or indi- 

 rectly with hog raising for the driving out of the disease. We 

 apparently have in our hands at this time, through the efforts of 

 the United States Bureau of Animal Industry and numerous 

 state workers, an agency which is capable of accomplishing 

 this result. All it requires now is that proper use be made of its 

 power to accomplish the desired results. A great deal has already 

 been done on a small scale, but the field is yet practically unex- 

 plored, and it will require years of steady hard work to drive this 

 disease out of the hog belt. The reward in sight, however, is well 

 worth the effort, and every true citizen should put his shoulder to 

 the wheel and keep it moving. 



Proper Methods of Disposal. — When it comes to a discussion 

 of proper methods of disposal of dead animal carcasses, there are 

 but two methods of disposal that are worth talking about, and one 

 of these is so much better than the other that there remains truly 

 but one method worthy of consideration. The two methods re- 

 ferred to are deep burial and burning. Of these two, burning is so 

 much better than burial, both from the standpoint of labor involved 

 and actual results, that burial should be mentioned only to be 

 condemned. 



In many cholera outbreaks we have the development of a 

 class of traders who travel about the country with an old lumber 

 wagon and gather up the dead animals, either paying a small price 

 for them or getting them for nothing simply for hauling them away. 

 These scavengers are the cause of spreading more cholera than a 

 united effort could wipe out in a season. They travel about in old, 

 filthy wagons, and dressed, as becomes their trade, in clothing 

 that is rotten with filth and disease germs. Everywhere they go 

 they carry with them the infectious germs of cholera, and scatter 

 it along the roads as they travel about from farm to farm. 



During an outbreak of cholera three years ago in western 

 Iowa there were a number of these men traveling about the 

 cholera-infected district, looking for dead animals that they might 

 be able to gather up. On a certain farm where cholera had not 

 as yet made its appearance these men drove up along in the middle 



