1921.] 



Exportation of Horses. 



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the Local Authority. Tlie extent of this scliechiled district was, liowever, 

 considerably reduced as from 13th June by an order of the Ministry, one of 

 the ellects of which was to release from restrictions Derby, where the Royal 

 Agricultural show was to be lield at the end of June. 



The origin of all these 12 outbreaks, most of which were discovered by the 

 prompt action of the Ministry's Inspectors, has been due to the transactions of 

 a dealer on whose premises one of the outbreaks occurred, and where the 

 disease appeared to be of old standing. This dealer kept no proper record of 

 his transactions, but animals were exposed by him at Chapel-en-le-Frith 

 Market, Derbyshire, on the 5th and 10th May, at Macclesfield on the Gth May, 

 and at Hayfield on the 12th May. No fewer than four of the eleven outbreaks 

 occurred in animals exposed at Chapel Market on the IDth May. The original 

 outbreak at Harthill occurred in animals which had passed through Marple 

 Market, Cheshire, on the 2nd May. 



Yorkshire (Otley District). — An outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth disease was 

 confirmed on the 2nd June at premises near Otley. This outbreak owes its 

 origin to contact with affected animals at one of the markets concerned in the 

 Derbyshire outbreaks. The usual restrictions were imposed, and remain in 

 force without modification. 



Injurious Weeds Regulations, 1921.— With reference to the last 

 paragraph of the notes on the suppression of weeds given at p. 275 of this 

 Journal for June, regulations have now been made under Section 4 (10) of the 

 Agriculture Act, 1920, declaring the following weeds to be the injurious weeds- 

 to which the sub-section shall apply : — 



(1) Thistles Carduus lanceolatus L. — Spear Thistle. 



Carduus arvensis Curt. — Creeping Thistle or Field Thistle. 



(2) Docks Ruinex crispus L. — Curled Dock. 



Rumex ohtusifolius L. — Broad-Leaved Dock. 



(3) Ragwort Senecio Jacohwa L. 



The position now is, therefore, that the INlinistry of Agriculture ma}' serve 

 on the occupier of any land on which the above injurious weeds are growing, a 

 notice requiring the destruction of such weeds. 



Exportation of Horses and Conveyance of Horses by Rail- 

 way. — The Diseases of Animals Act, lUlO, as amended by the Exportation of 

 Horses Act, 1914, prohibits the shipment of any horse, ass or mule, from any 

 port in Great Britain to the Continent of Europe unless the animal has been 

 examined immediately before shipment by a Veterinary Inspector appointed 

 by the ^Ministry and certified l)y him to be capable of being conveyed and 

 disembarked without cruelty, and also to be capable of being worked without 

 suffering on arrival at its destination on the Continent. Provision has been 

 made by the Ministry for the veterinary inspection of horses shipped under the 

 above-mentioned Acts at the ports of London, Harwich, Hull, Goole, 

 Folkestone, Southampton, Leith, Grimsby and Xewhaven. 



As it is of great importance that any illegal traftic in worn-out horses 

 should on humanitarian grounds be prevented, the Ministry has asked Local 

 Authorities of seaboard districts to co-operate with the Ofiicors of Customs 

 and Excise at the ports, with a view to prevent shipments of such horses 

 contrary to the Acts, and the Board of Customs and Excise have agreed to 

 assist by instructing their olficers to notify to the Ministry and also to Local 



