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discover whether contagious pleuro-pneumonia existed in 

 Canada, but without success, for the sufficient reason that such 

 disease never did exist in the Dominion except when imported 

 from Britain to the quarantine at Quebec. 



I took occasion to explain, however, that owing to the 

 opening of the United States, markets by the removal of the 

 international quarantine of ninety days between Canada and 

 that country, our country was actually depleted of stockeis, 

 that market absorbing all and more than we can produce. 

 This had tended to greatly lessen, if not quite remove the 

 feeling of irritation among our agricultural population, caused 

 by the injustice of the embargo on our healthy cattle, but that 

 my recent visit to Scotland convinced me that the Scotch 

 feeders felt keenly the injustice done them in preventing them 

 from obtaining healthy cattle, and would welcome the day 

 when Canadian stockers were again admitted freely to their 

 markets. Asked if there was any prospect of this occurring 

 now that it was clearly proven that contagious pleuro-pneu- 

 monia did not exist in the Dominion, he replied, " I fear not ; 

 the country would not stan-d it." He said nothing to indicate 

 whether or not he supposed disease had existed in Canada. 



I fear from all I could learn that there is no prospect what- 

 ever of this embargo being raised. Our action in removing 

 the quarantine from the United States was not unfavourably 

 commented upon. We are supposed to be capable of mana- 

 ging our own affairs, and to do so in the interest of our people. 



