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by Government on takkavi it would not be better to devote more 

 attention to the preservation of cattle by the storing and importa- f - 

 tion of fodder. 



(5). The Givil Veterinary Department. The Civil Veterinary 

 Department of the Punjab consists of a Chief Superintendent and 

 two Superintendents controlling the operations of 14 Veterinary 

 Inspectors. A Veterinary Inspector is in charge of 3 or 4 districts, 

 to each of which are posted a Veterinary Assistant for the hospital 

 in each tahsil and an itinerating Veterinary Assistant. This 

 establishment is fully occupied with the prevention and cure ofr 

 disease and with horse, mule and donkey breeding in districts 

 outside the operations of the Remount Department. Their assist- 

 ance in the matter of cattle-breeding is most valuable. But the 

 staff, especially in the higher grades, is at present inadequate for 

 the important work allotted to it, and extremely small compared 

 with the establishments of the Remount and Army Veterinary 

 Department. 



Initiative and executive action in matters of cattle-breeding 

 rest with the District Boards, which are advised on technical 

 points by the officers of the Civil Veterinary Department, The 

 diaries and inspection notes of these officers are full of valuable 

 suggestions as regards cattle-breeding, which might with advantage 

 be followed up with greater energy by the District Boards. 



XXI. SUGGESTIONS FOR ACTION BY GOVERNMENT 

 AND LOCAL BODIES. 



(1) Development of the Givil Veterinary Department. Govern- 

 ment has for some years considered the question of providing a 

 cattle-breeding depot in the Northern Punjab, which would be for 

 that part of the province what the Hissar Cattle Farm is for 

 the south, a centre for the breeding of first class cattle on 

 scientific lines. A project has been drawn up for such a dep6t 

 in the Jhelum colony, and fts. 1,20,000 were actually sanctioned 

 with that object. But the scheme is at present in abeyance, the 

 chief objection being the unsuitability of any site in an irrigated 

 tract. As an alternative it has been suggested that a cattle- 

 breeding dep6t might be established by the Kot Estate in the 

 Futtehjang tahsil of the At took District which is at present under 

 the Court of Wards. But however desirable it may be to encourage 

 wealthy landowners to conduct the breeding operations in their 

 large herds on scientific principles (an important point which 

 will be dealt with later on), the difficulty in the case of an estab- 

 lishment situated in a private estate would be to secure con- 

 tinuity of action when the estate was no longer under the Court 

 of Wards. Tho most reasonable proposal would seem to be to 



