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these pigs were sick, some of them dying. In about two weeks 
the rest of his hogs were taken sick, and they all died. A 
neighbor helped Mr. G. move the pigs from the wagon in which 
they were brought to the sale over into Mr. G.’s wagon. He 
then went home and in about two weeks his hogs were dying 
with cholera. 
Not very long ago a farmer living near Morgan, Redwood 
Co., shipped in some hogs from Olmsted Co., and, by the way, 
contrary to the regulations of the State Board of Health. 
These imported hogs infected those previously on the place and 
resulted in an oubreak of cholera. 
A farmer living near Sleepy Eye sold some hogs to a buyer 
at that place. The hogs were placed in the shipping pens, and, 
contrary to the regulations of the State Board of Health, sold 
to another farmer, who took them back to the country. These 
hogs were free from the disease when the first sale was made. 
No cholera had existed in the neighborhood from which they 
came. After the usual period of about two weeks they became 
sick and were dying with cholera. Result, another outbreak of 
cholera. It is very evident that these hogs were infected in the 
railroad shipping pens. 
Suppose a case : Hog cholera appears in a previously unin¬ 
fected district. The outbreak is confined to two or three farms. 
In a reasonably intelligent and law-abiding neighborhood this 
outbreak can be quarantined with reasonable certainty of com¬ 
plete success, providing the chairman posts quarantine placards, 
visits the neighbors, gives all the information at hand concern¬ 
ing the nature of the disease, how it spreads, etc., urges owners 
whose hogs are not infected to post quarantine cards, etc. 
But suppose the chairman takes no interest; suppose the 
owner leaves carcasses of hogs unburied after a representative of 
the State Board of Health has left. Dogs are numerous. Neigh¬ 
bors refuse to accept suggestions concerning dogs and other 
sources of spread ; visitors pay no attention to the notice cards— 
quarantine is a failure. The disease spreads rapidly, not neces¬ 
sarily because the theory of quarantine is wrong, but merely be- 
