CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF D0ME>>5TICATED ANIMALS. \9'S 



The answer from the Grovernmeiit was, as [ supposed it would be, to 

 tlie etiect that, uuder the existing act of Parliament, no concession conld 

 be made iu favor of a portion of anj' coiintr}' that couhl not be accorded 

 to it as a whole, I succeeded in obtaining from Professor Brown, 

 the chief veterinary adviser of the privy council, an admission that 

 in his opinion a plan might be devised by which cattle from onr Western 

 States might now be admitted with reasonable safety. This I regarded 

 as a very important admission ; but the nearness of the end of the ses- 

 sion of Parliament made it useless then to ask for such additional legis- 

 lation as would be necessary in order to enable the privy council to 

 carry out this idea. I may add, in this connection, that Professor 

 Brown, speaking for the privy council, expressed himself as greatly 

 pleased with the steps which the Agricultural and the Treasury De- 

 partments of the United States had taken within the past year or two 

 to improve the sanitary condition of our live stock and to pi-event the im- 

 portation and spread of contagious diseases; and that the impression 

 is rapidly gaining ground that we shall soon be in sucii a condition that 

 cattle from all parts of the United States may be admitted and taken 

 inland without any danger from disease. This feeling is based mainly 



il)on the steps which our Government has already taken, and a faith 

 riiat we shall continue to go forward in the same direction. 



I cannot but regard it as extremely fortunate that some one who could 

 speak with some degree of assurance, and whose opportunities, from 

 knowing the facts, were acknowledged, should have been on the spot 

 n London in Jul^^ last to correct the misapprehensions that existed 

 touching the prevalence of foot-and-mouth disease in this country; and 

 I think it reasonably safe to predict that, with the enforcement of such 

 regulations as are now contemplated by our Treasury Department, and 

 with such additional legislation as may be reasonably expected from our 

 Congress at its next session, the time is not far distant when American 

 cattle will be placed upon an equal footing with those from Canada so 

 far as admission to British ports is concerned. 



IMPRESSIONS OF BRITISH BREEDS OF CATTLE. 



However much the substantial merits o-f short-horns in Great Britain, 



. as well as in America, may have been damaged within the past twenty 



years by blind allegiance to what has been called " fashionable breeding," 



! it is evident that the "color craze," which prevails to so great an extent 



i in the United States, has not yet had any serious etiect on the other side of 



the ocean. In the stables, the pastures, and the show-yards of England 



and Scotland I saw com)).! rati vely few red short-horns. Roan appears to 



be the favorite color there ; the all white being (piite as frecpiently met 



with as the all-red. In the show-yards the rich red-roan — a color that 



is peculiarly characteristic of the short-horn breed — appears to be in 



a decided majority over all others. 



In point of real merit, howevei', I think no candid man who has seen 

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