. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, February 12, 1916. DISPOSAL OF DEAD ANIMALS. Often when animals die on the farm no disposal is made of their carcasses other than to drag them into a field or a nearby woods, where they are left on the surface of the ground to decom- pose or to be eaten by buzzards, crows, dogs, and other scavengers, or ani- mals which feed on carrion. This practice can not be too severe- ly condemned, because it contributes seriously to the dissemination of dis- ease germs and the perpetuation of in- fectious diseases. The carcasses of anim
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, February 12, 1916. DISPOSAL OF DEAD ANIMALS. Often when animals die on the farm no disposal is made of their carcasses other than to drag them into a field or a nearby woods, where they are left on the surface of the ground to decom- pose or to be eaten by buzzards, crows, dogs, and other scavengers, or ani- mals which feed on carrion. This practice can not be too severe- ly condemned, because it contributes seriously to the dissemination of dis- ease germs and the perpetuation of in- fectious diseases. The carcasses of animals which hare succumbed to infectious diseases like anthrax, hog cholera, blackleg, tuber- culosis, etc., are charged with myr- iads of virulent disease germs, and just as long as they remain where scavengers can reach them and por- tions of them can be carried away promiscuously, they are a dangerous menace over a large territory to all animals which are liable to be at- tacked by disease germs. Even car- casses of animals which have died from other causes than infectious dis- eases, unless they are disposed of in a proper way, are a source of danger. Left on the surface of the ground, their odor soon invites scavengers to con- gregate and to bring with them the infectious materials with which they may have become contaminated by eating carrion elsewhere. Dead animals on the farm should be buried deep enough to prevent them from being dug up again, or they should be burned. To burn large car- casses like those of dead horses and cattle is difficult and laborious and re- quires a large quantity of fuel. In most instances it is more economical to bury them. All animals which have died of infectious diseases and are buried should be covered with a heavy layer of lime before the graves are closed. In the winter, when the ground is grozen, it is more difficult to dig graves than at other seasons of the year, but it is just in cold weather that disease germs remain alive and virule
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