no THE FARMERS VETERINARIAN 



SO well marked. Other signs of the disease, if a 

 farmer should be so tmfortunate as to open an. 

 anthrax carcass and thereby spread the infection 

 on his farm, will be great enlargement of the 

 spleen, or milt, and also of the liver. Bloody 

 patches in the tongue, throat, lungs, stomach, and 

 intestines, caul, skin, and muscles, or in fact in 

 almost any part of the body, will be plainly visible. 



The Management of the Sick Animal and dis- 

 posal of the carcass are the most important pro- 

 cedures in an outbreak of anthrax, from a sanitary 

 standpoint. Medicinal treatment is of little value. 

 A vaccine has been discovered that is very effective 

 in preventing the disease. This has been used very 

 successfully in both this and European countries. 

 If a case of anthrax is suspected, call your veteri- 

 narian at once. The disease will not pass through 

 the air from a sick animal to a healthy one, but the 

 discharges which invariably occur during the 

 progress of the disease all contain the microbe, and 

 everything soiled by them is infectious material 

 and capable of spreading the disease. 



When an animal is infected, remove at once to 

 the burial lot and tie it near the place it is to be 

 buried, to save handling and scattering the infec- 

 tion. When it dies, dig the grave. Then saturate 

 the animal with kerosene or coal oil and set it afire. 

 By means of ropes tied around the fetlocks turn 

 the animal, saturate the other side and fire that, 

 and also the soles of the feet. When every hair 

 has been burned off, dissolve a one-pound carton 

 of chlorinated lime (freshly opened) in sufficient 

 water to make a fluid that will just pour from the 

 cup. Fill the nostrils with this, also the mouth 

 and eyes, which should be pried open with a stick 

 dipped in solution. Saturate some cotton or rags 



