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 (v). The Civil Veterinary Department. 



The superior grades are obviously understaffed, and two 

 more Superintendents are urgently required, one for the North 

 Punjab, to enable special attention to be given to the Potwar 

 Dhanni tract, and one for the South Punjab, to be stationed at 

 Hissar to devote similar attention to the Hariana breeding grounds 

 (XIII and XXI i). 



(vi). The co-operative movement. 



Existing co-operative credit societies should be encouraged 

 to buy their bullocks direct from breeders and not from dealers, 

 and thus save the system of purchase by instalments aud the 

 very large prices charged in lieu of interest (XIV it). 



They should be encouraged to buy bulls of their own and take 

 up breeding themselves (XXI ii). 



Their attention should also be directed to the profits likely 

 to be obtained from co-operative dealing in ghi* Co-operative 

 societies for the supply of milk might be formed in the neighbour- 

 hood of large towns (XXI viii). 



(vii). Miscellaneous. 



Attention should be paid to sheep breeding, the animal being 

 valuable for both wool and ghi. Goats are less important but should 

 not be neglected (XIX). New cattle fairs are required in certain 

 localities : at centres where the wool trade is important sheep 

 fairs should be started or combined with existing cattle fairs. 

 XXIII. CONCLUSION. 



Deputy Commissioners and Settlement Officers throughout 

 the Province have evinced great interest in the enquiry, and 

 have assisted the officer deputed to write the report in every 

 possible way. Specially good reports were received Aom Lyallpur, 

 Hissar, Gurgaon, Delhi, Ludhiana, Gurdaspur, Montgomery ; also 

 from Amritsar, Rawalpindi, Attock and Multan. Almost every 

 matter or suggestion of value outside the district reports and even 

 many points in district reports, must be attributed to Major 

 Walker, Chief Superintendent of the Civil Veterinary Department 

 of the Province and to Major Farmer of the Hissar Cattle Farm. 

 These officers have placed their experience unreservedly at the 

 disposal of the writer, and have helped him throughout with 

 criticism and instruction. A report on this subject should naturally 

 have been written by an officer of the Civil Veterinary Department, 

 and the fact that these officers are far 'too busy to undertake 

 such work forms one more argument in support of the necessity 

 for augmenting the Veterinary staff of the Province. The 

 Director of Agriculture has throughout the enquiry given : the 

 writer the benefit of his advice and criticism. 



A. M. STOW. 

 October 1910. 



