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PART II. 



SCHEDULING OF CANADIAN CATTLE FOR AL- 

 LEGED INFECTION BY CONTAGIOUS PLEURO- 

 PNEUMONIA. 



In my interview with Sir George T. Brown, who was chief 

 of the British Board of Agriculture when the scheduling order 

 against Canadian cattle was enforced, I was gratified to learn 

 from him that it never was his opinion that contagious pleuro- 

 pneumonia existed in Canada, but that it was being brought 

 into Canada from the United States, and that if assurances 

 had been given that steps would be taken at once to prevent 

 a possibility of this occurring, the schedule would not have 

 been put on at that time. I stated that I understood that 

 such assurances had been given and referred to my own report 

 dated December, 1894, page 29, in which the following passages 

 occur i- 

 Mr. Cope (817) being asked: " What is your explanation 

 of the fact that notwithstanding contagious pleuro-pneumonia 

 has existed for a good many years in Canada, there has been 

 no spread of the disease ? " He replied : " I do not think 

 that we have ever committed ourselves to the statement that 

 there is contagious pleuro-pneumonia in Canada ; our general 

 impression has been that it is very likely that animals have 

 got across the frontier." (822.) " You have no special infor- 

 mation about Canada, I suppose ?" " No, we have no infor- 

 mation beyond the reports which we have received from the 

 Canadian government in which they have stated that they 

 cannot find any disease in Canada." 



Professor Brown, in answer to the question (854) : " May I 

 ask, whether you think that the so-called Canadian cattle 

 came from Canada or the United States ?" says : " My first 

 impression was that the cases which came from the frontier 

 had in all probability been smuggled across, but the Canadian 

 authorities state that it is absolutely impossible with their 



