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treat the whole Dhanni-Potwar tract as a selected breeding 

 ground forming the separate charge of a Superintendent of tho 

 Civil Veterinary Department working as regards cattle-breeding 

 under the Deputy Commissioners of the districts concerned. 

 His duties in addition to the supervision of measures for dealing 

 with cattle disease and veterinary hospitals would be to collect in- 

 formation as to the villages where the best cattle of the valuable 

 Dhanni-Potwar type are bred, to assist the people with advice in 

 technical matters connected with breeding and to direct the 

 distribution of bulls and the provision and, if necessary, the 

 importation of fodder in times of scarcity. To prevent the increase 

 in the number of touring and inspecting officers the Super- 

 intendent could take over the duties of the Transport Registration 

 Officer for this tract. 



This plan would have the advantage of economy. No 

 expensive buildings and recurring expenditure on upkeep would 

 be required. The appointment would be merely a stage in the 

 development of the Civil Veterinary Department, a department 

 thoroughly popular with the people and admittedly under-staffed. 

 The necessity of a Superintendent for each Division has been 

 already represented to Government. It is not necessary to repeat 

 the recommendations of the district authorities of Hissar as to 

 the necessity for a Superintendent of the Civil Veterinary Depart- 

 ment specially deputed to the Hariana tract with his headquarters 

 at Hissar. His duties would be similar to those assigned above 

 to the officer posted to the Dhanni-Potwar tract. His attention 

 would be even more markedly directed to the provision of fodder 

 in time of scarcity. 



As has been pointed out the valuable breed of Sahiwal milch 

 cattle is already being diminished by continual export, and with the 

 extension of canal irrigation in the Montgomery district is likely to 

 decline still further both in quality and numbers. The Deputy 

 Commissioner of Montgomery has submitted a proposal to lease 

 200 acres to a zamindar as a stud farm for the breed, and the 

 scheme had been sanctioned by Government. The conditions of 

 the lease are that at least 200 cows shall be kept up, no bulls 

 introduced that have not been approved by Government authority, 

 and that any of the produce can be claimed for Government at 

 prices to be fixed by the Deputy Commissioner. If the experiment 

 proves successful the system might be extended. But there is 

 always the difficulty of enforcing conditions of this kind if, as is 

 only too likely, the lessee is tempted by the profits of cultivation to 

 bring more and more land under the plough. The Montgomery dis- 

 trict and adjoining tracts really require the attention of a 



