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position to draw profitable conclusions from this case which will be 

 of benefit to us in preventing a like occurrence on our own farms. 



Whenever you haul hogs to town for a neighbor, no matter 

 whether the animals are beheved to be suffering from any disease 

 or not, immediately clean out your wagon bed as soon as the hogs 

 are unloaded, and do not, under any conditions, take the possibly 

 infected bedding home, to be left where your own hogs will have 

 opportunity to come in contact with it and contract cholera or 

 some other disease which may have been present in the other 

 man's animals. 



Destroy Useless Dogs. — Nearly every farmhouse has one or 

 more clogs about. In some cases these animals are really valuable 

 and well worthy of their keep. In a great majority of cases, 

 however, dogs found in the country districts are worthless, and 

 roam all over the fields of the farm and neighboring farms as well, 

 looking for wild game and any other forage that they may come 

 across. 



Under ordinary conditions this daily wandering about of the 

 dog may do no harm, but when there is an outbreak of cholera it 

 holds great possibilities for aiding in the scattering of the disease 

 throughout the neighborhood. The relationship between dogs and 

 cholera outbreaks has already been referred to in one or two cases 

 given as examples of how cholera spreads in a neighborhood, but 

 the following additional cases will serve to show you how really 

 important is this fact in the spreading of cholera to your farm: 



In the spring of 1911 there was an outbreak of cholera on the 

 premises of a farmer in northern Iowa. The outbreak was rather 

 mild in character, and resulted in the death of about one-half the 

 animals on the farm. It, fortunately, did not spread at this time 

 to any of the surrounding farms, and the farmers of the neigh- 

 borhood began to congratulate themselves on the fortunate out- 

 come of what might have proved to be a most severe outbreak. 



The animals which died on this farm were buried in an open 

 pasture. The grave in which they were buried was about 4 

 feet in depth and simply filled in with loose earth. One of the 

 neighbors living down the road about a half-mile had a large shep- 

 herd dog which was known all over the neighborhood, as he was 

 a regular tramp, going away from the house every morning and 

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