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it strongly urges the introduction and development of a chilled 

 meat industry between the Western Provinces and the Mother 

 Country, and adds that " if our Canadian cattle admission friends 

 were as anxious for the Canadian cattle raiser as they profess, 

 they would be advising him to finish more well-bred cattle at 

 home, and would be arranging companies to start the chilled meat 

 industry in Canada, thus effecting a big saving in the freight on 

 offal and providing for additional new Canadian industries." 

 Naturally, an article of this description will not be palatable to 

 the disappointed graziers in this country, but they must turn to 

 some other quarter than the Dominion in order to procure the 

 convincing evidence which they are so anxious to discover and 

 which is so slotv in forthcoming. 



Moreover, we are convinced that the exclusion of stores, while 

 fat stock is admitted, is not at all detrimental to the best interests 

 of Canada, as this means that she is exporting a manufactured 

 article instead of a raw material. And there is reason to believe 

 that the small agitation in Canada if, indeed, such exists is 

 not altogether unconnected with local party politics. 



FROM THE RATEPAYERS' POINT OF VIEW. 



It is admitted on all sides that the burden of rates is already 

 far heavier than ratepayers can well bear. But if any serious 

 outbreaks of disease were to occur the cost to the ratepayers of 

 administering the Acts would be considerable. Are they pre- 

 pared to take the risk for a possible but illusory advantage ? 

 Ratepayers, in such a contingency, would suffer both by the 

 increased rates and by the increased price they would have to 

 pay for wholesome meat. 



CANADA IS SAID TO BE FREE FROM DISEASE. 



It may be true that none of the scheduled diseases exist in 

 Canada at the present moment, but they have a peculiarly 

 offensive and infectious Mange which the Canadian Department 

 of Agriculture has long been trying to suppress without success. 

 This entails a compulsory dipping order for horned stock. 

 Anthrax is also very common there. Even if Canada is free now 

 they have a frontier of from 3000 to 4000 miles, and though a 

 watch is said to be kept over all stock crossing the boundary, 

 it is most perfunctory and ineffective. Cases are known of 

 farmers in Canada frequently driving stock into the States, and 

 back again, without even a question being asked. 



On 10th February the Board issued an Order making 

 dipping of sheep, twice a year, compulsory over the whole of 

 Scotland, and on 9th April very similar Orders were issued 

 applying to the six northern counties of England and the 

 whole of Wales, including that part of Monmouthshire west 

 of the river Wye. The North of England Order was weakened 



