224 CATTLE AND DAIRY FARMING. 



(4) Bull. Harden (1151), from oil painting by Gouday Steel, animal painter to 



the Highland and Agricultural Society). 



(5) Cow. Clara (1375). 



(6) Heifer. Lalla Rookh (2142). 



WEST HIGHLAND (by favor of John Robertson, esq., Old Blair, Bleir Athole): 



(7) Bull. Photographed from one of the Duke of Athole's herd. 



(8) Cow. Photographed from one of the Duke of A thole's herd. 

 AYRSHIRE (by favor of James McMurtrie, esq, Ayr.) : 



(9)*Bnil. Baron O'Bucklyire (281) at four years. 

 (10)*Cow. Bright Smile (1307) at four years. 



Those portraits are not uniform and do not indicate the size of each 

 animal relatively to the others, but I believe the relative size of each 

 animal can be estimated by reference to the tabular matter in this re- 

 port. 



Besides the gentlemen whom I have named as having aided me with 

 materials for this report, I am indebted for much of the information 

 contained in it to Messrs. John Swan & Sons, the eminent cattle agents 

 of Edinburgh and Glasgow. 



J. A. LEONABD, 

 Consul- General (lately Consul at Leith). 



UNITED STATES CONSULATE-GENERAL, 



Calcutta, July 18, 1884. 



CATTLE IN IRELAND. 



REPORT BY CONSUL PI ATT, OF QUEENSTOWN. 

 RAVAGES OF THE FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. 



Since receiving cattle circular many letters of inquiry addressed to 

 persons presumed to have the best and fullest knowledge upon the sub- 

 ject of breeding cattle in my district have been written, the answers to 

 which have been few and far between as well as meager. The follow- 

 ing statement is made up of information thus received supplemented 

 by personal inquiries which I have caused to be made : 



During the past year several districts in Ireland have suffered very 

 severely, owing to the introduction of foot and mouth disease from Eng- 

 land. With a view to checking its spread and ultimately " stamping 

 out" the disease, very stringent restrictions were placed upon the cattle 

 trade of the entire island by the veterinary department of the privy 

 council. Fairs and markets were prohibited in many parts of Ireland, 

 and several of the most important shipping ports were closed against 

 exporters. Irt order to secure open ports in England and Scotland for 

 Irish cattle it became necessary to have cordons drawn around the un- 

 infected districts in Ireland, and no cattle were permitted to be shipped 

 from districts outside those embraced by these cordons. Even cattle 

 inside the cordons could only be shipped' on the production of a certifi- 

 cate from the clerks of the poor-law unions, who had means at hand for 

 satisfying themselves that no infected cattle were permitted to leave 

 Irish ports. By this arrangement, and owing to these very crushing 

 restrictions, the important stock-breeding province of Connaught was 

 for a time completely suppressed, all sales of cattle being prohibited ex- 

 cept by special license of the lord lieutenant, or else by means of an ap- 

 plication to the clerk of the local 'authority or a justice of the peace. 



* For portraits of Ayrshire cattle see report of Consul Wells, of Dundee. 



