INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF ANIMALS. 
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or refusal constitutes a separate or independent misdemeanor. 
Section n authorizes private owners whose stock are not 
affected to establish private quarantine in self-defense during 
the prevalence of an infectious disease among domestic animals, 
and makes such private quarantine legal. Permit me to explain 
at this point, as illustrating my thought, that members of this 
and similar associations should be personally interested and in¬ 
formed concerning this work. Section n was suggested by the 
Secretary of the Stock Breeders’ Association, and I consider this 
one of the best points in the new law. 
Section i, Chapter 47, reads as follows : 
“ It shall be the duty of the owner, or of any other person having in 
charge any swine that have died of any disease, immediately upon the 
fact of such death by disease coming to his knowledge, to bury the same 
at least three (3) feet below the surface of the ground, or burn the same 
so that the carcass is consumed. No person shall sell, give away or 
offer for sale any swine that have died of any disease, or have been 
killed on account of any disease. No person shall convey upon or along 
any public highway, or other public ground, or any private land, ex¬ 
cept his own, any diseased swine, or swine that have died of or have 
been slaughtered on account of any disease. It shall be unlawful for 
any person negligently or wilfully to allow his hogs or those under his 
control afflicted with any disease to escape his control or run at large. ” 
Then follows a definition of penalties. 
Glanders discussion omitted because already covered in the 
paper on “ State Control of Glanders,” by the same author, ancL 
recently published in this magazine. 
Hog Cholera .—I have been somewhat disappointed with the 
progress we have made in the hog cholera work during 1899, 
and I feel that we are at a critical point in this work. Very sat¬ 
isfactory progress was made in 1897 and 1898, as I will soon 
show in a brief table. The difficulty this year has been to secure 
prompt reports of outbreaks, and this difficulty is due to an out¬ 
cropping of natural human selfishness. Unless the State Board 
can secure prompt reports, the work of further reducing the 
infected area and financial losses will be greatly hindered. 
During the past quarter 39 townships in 19 counties have been 
reported as infected with hog cholera. 
The following table gives a reasonably accurate survey of the 
