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the constant risk of reintroducing disease among British stock. 

 The Board acted with promptness and vigour, and issued an 

 Order suspending the importation of animals from Europe 

 while Foot and Mouth Disease existed on the Continent. 

 In November the Council pointed out that a comparison 

 between this outbreak and previous ones showed the good 

 effect of the policy adopted by the Board. 



Pleuro-Pneumonia was imported from Montreal and was 

 discovered at Dundee on 29th September. At the November 

 meeting the Council arranged a deputation to the Board to 

 ask that Canadian cattle should be subject to the same con- 

 ditions as those coming from the United States. The Presi- 

 dent of the Board (Mr. Gardner, afterwards created Lord 

 Burghclere)* met the deputation three days later and pro- 

 mised to issue an Order prohibiting the landing of Canadian 

 cattle except for slaughter at the port. This Order came into 

 operation on 21st November. On 26th September the 

 Secretary of the Department of Agriculture at Washington 

 issued a proclamation that the United States was free from 

 Pleuro-Pneumonia, but on 7th October a cargo from New 

 York landed at Deptford was found to be affected. This 

 gave added weight to the request of the deputation in 

 November. 



Swine Fever. 



This subject had been considered on several occasions, but 

 in 1890 and 1891 the Council felt that public opinion was not 

 sufficiently settled to accept the same procedure as had been 

 adopted in the case of Foot and Mouth, Cattle Plague, and 

 Pleuro-Pneumonia. By November, 1892, however, it was 

 thought that similar means should be employed^ viz., the 

 central administration of uniform restrictions and payment 

 of compensation for slaughter out of the National Exchequer. 

 A deputation therefore waited upon the President of the 

 Board (Mr. Chaplin) on 2nd February to urge this view. The 

 deputation was received very sympathetically, but Mr. Chaplin 



* A General Election took place in July of this year, and the Liberal 

 Party came into office. Mr. Herbert Gardner was appointed President 

 of the Board of Agriculture. 



