770 



Tmpoktation of Canadian Cattle. 



[Dec, 



"'An inquiry with all reasonable dispatch into the subject 

 of agricultural rating and the removal of any unfairness which 

 might be found to exist. 



" The promotion of co-operation in the transport and sale 

 of agricultural produce. 



The encouragement of improved credit facilities to agri- 

 culturists and the promotion of education and research. 



" Useful results might also be obtained from an inquiry 

 into the causes of the great disparity between the price re- 

 ceived by the farmer for his produce and that paid by the 

 consumer of food. All these questions are being carefully 

 examined, and there will be no avoidable delay in coming 

 to a decision as to the form in which assistance on such lines 

 can best be given. 



' ' On these lines the Prime ^linister believes that it should 

 be possible to build the foundations of a permanent and 

 stable agricultural policy, which will enable the enterprise 

 and industry of the agricultural community to work out its 

 own salvation under fair and reasonable conditions." 



* * . * * * * 



It has already been announced* that the British and Canadian 



representatives at the Cattle Conference agreed as to the condi- 



. ^. , tions that should applv to the importation 

 Importation of £ f n a " 



^ ■.. ^ 01 cattle irom Canada. 



Canadian Cattle. rn\ ^ i i ^ .c t i 



The aefreenient has now been ratiiiecl bv 



the new Cabinet and by the Prime Minister of Canada, and the 

 following summary of the agreement has, with the assent of the 

 Canadian authorities, been authorised for publication : — 



Canadian store cattle (i.e , animals born and reared in 



Canada and rendered incapable of breeding) are to be admitted 



under the following restricti(ms : — 



(1) The shipment must be from a Canadian port and direct 

 to a port in Great Britain. 



(2) For three days immediately before shipment and during 

 the voyage the animals are to be kept separate from other 

 animals and periodically examined by a veterinary officer of 

 the Dominion. A thorough examination immediatelv before 

 shipment is to be made by the Dominion veterinary officer, 

 who will eertifv that the animals are not affected with cattle 

 plague, pleuro-pneumonia, foot-and-mouth disease, or mange. 

 During the voyage the examination is to be made daily. 



* This Joimial, November.* 1922, p. 670. 



