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introduced for Scotland in the House of Lords. These measures 

 are dealt with in another section, but in connection with 

 them the Board of Agriculture issued a Tuberculosis Order, 

 which was to be read with the Bills, and to come into operation 

 on 1st January, 1910. This Order, with the exception that 

 the proposal to pay compensation for slaughtered animals 

 out of the rates was strongly condemned, was generally 

 approved. It was this proposal in the Order which was the 

 ultimate cause of the two Bills being withdrawn. 



On 2nd February the Council passed a resolution recom- 

 mending that a conference should take place between the 

 Governments of the United Kingdom and Argentina to 

 consider a scheme for establishing testing stations on this 

 side of the water ; animals passing this test to have free access 

 to Argentina. 



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Once again the London County Council attempted to 

 legislate on their own lines with regard to milk. In spite of 

 what he said in 1909, Mr. Burns this year supported the 

 London Bill, but after the second reading Mr. Courthope 

 moved an Instruction, and on carrying it to a division defeated 

 the Bill by 85 votes to 81. Shortly after, Mr. Courthope 

 introduced a Milk Bill himself, based on the Government 

 measure of 1909, but embodying the amendments recom- 

 mended by the Chambers ; of course, no facilities were given 

 for any progress being made with it. Only two other Bills 

 contained the Model Clauses, and these were not opposed. 



Continued efforts were made by interested parties to 

 induce the Board to admit Argentine cattle alive, but the 

 Council expressed their extreme satisfaction with the deter- 

 mined attitude taken up by Lord Carrington and Sir Edw r ard 

 Strachey on this question. That this was justified was shown 

 by the renewed prevalence of Foot and Mouth Disease in 

 Argentina officially reported in June of this year. Two 

 outbreaks of Foot and Mouth Disease occurred in England, 

 but the Board were able to prevent the disease spreading ; 

 they could not, however, ascertain the cause of the outbreaks. 



