Journal of the Department 

 OF Agriculture. 



Vol. II. JUNE, 1921. No. 6. 



Published monthly in English ami Afrikaans by the I>eii:utnieiit of AgricultiUf, 



Lhiion of South Africa. 



Editor: G. W. Klerck. 



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NOTES. 



Wool and Hair: Canadian Importations. 



lit eoniiectioii wiili tlio lupasiires taken hy llic Canadian Govern- 

 ment \() pi'event the introduction of disease into (Jaiiada, farmers of 

 Souili Africa will he interested to learn, hearing in mind the 

 unfortunate spread of anthrax in the Union, that certain amended 

 regulations have recently heen passed regarding the importation of wool 

 and hair into Canada. Introductions of thes(^ articles have to be 

 accompanied l)y ;i sanitary certificate certifying {a) in the case of 

 clipped wool and hair that thej' have been clipped from live, healthy 

 animals and have not been in contact with any other class of wool likely 

 to convey infectious diseases ; (h) in the case of scoured wool and hair 

 that they have l)een sc(nired and dried at a temperature sufficiently 

 higli to secure .safety from contagious or infectious disease; and (c) 

 in the case of pulled wool and hair that they are derived from animals 

 free from anthrax or other infectious disease. Tliere are certain 

 countries in the enumerated list, among which South Africa, liappily, 

 does not hgure, respecting which the sanitary certificate must 

 show that the wool and hair imported have been derived from animals 

 in a district in which no anthrax or other contagious disease of 

 animals has existed during the three months preceding the date of 

 the certificate. 



The volume of the Canadian import trade in these commodities 

 may be gauged by the returns (according to the Annual Eeport of the 

 Trade of Canada"^for 1919) of imports into Canada of '' wool and the 

 hair of the camel, alpaca, goat, and other like animals, not further 

 prepared than washed," which were, in round numbers, 13 million lb. 

 in 1915, 21 million in 191G, 15 million in 1917, 12 million in 1918, 

 and 16 million in 1919 (fiscal years). The bulk of these supplies was 

 drawn from the United Kingdom, the United States, New Zealand, 

 and Australia. The Union's direct share in this trade was com- 

 paratively small. 



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