person can kill a buzzard without violating any State law. Since this 

 is a fact, even good citizen should do his part toward exterminating 

 the buzzard, as it is a menace to the live stock raising industry on 

 account of being a spreader of not only hog cholera, but black leg, 

 anthrax, and many other contagious and infectious diseases. 



If all persons would make it a rule to bury all animals which die 

 on their farm, then there would be no inducement offered the buzzard 

 to visit their premises. Besides being an attraction to buzzards, the 

 stench from foetid carcasses of large animals constitute a public 

 nuisance in any community. 



Garbage — Garbage from hotels, restaurants or even private 

 kitchens is dangerous to hogs on account of uncooked meat scraps 

 which it often contains. Many outbreaks of hog cholera have occurred 

 from this source. If garbage is fed it should always be sterilized by 

 thorough cooking. 



Dr. Dorset, in a paper read before the Missouri Valley 

 Veterinary Medical Association in January, 1914, gave the 

 following estimate of the relative productivity of various 

 sources of infection, placing the greatest burden of responsi- 

 bility upon the human element : 



Visitation of neighbors carrying the causative agent on 

 their shoes from infected herds to uninfected herds are re- 

 sponsible for 33 per cent of the outbreaks. 



Birds carry the infecting medium in 27.5 per cent of out- 

 breaks. 



Dogs are probably responsible for about 6.5 per cent of 



outbreaks. 



Streams carry the etiological factor which is responsible 

 for some 8 per cent of outbreaks; hogs in adjoining premises 

 convey the infection in about 4.5 per cent, escaped hogs in 

 4 per cent of outbreaks; new stock from infected sources 

 bring the cholera in about 10 per cent of outbreaks, and in 

 some 6.5 per cent of new cases the infection is traceable to 

 local causes ,\uc to improper sanitation. 



PART II.— ANTI-HOG-CHOLERA SERUM PLANT. 



Excerpt from General Appropriation Bill passed by the Fifty-eighth 



General Assembly : 



"To establish a serum plant for the purpose of manufacturing and 

 distributing anti-hog-cholera serum to the swine owners of Teinn 

 at actual COSl of production; said plant to be under the direct super- 



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