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Insurance of Swine in Bavaria. 



[JAN., 



3. Swine moved under the Order to any lairs, market, or 

 saleyard shall be moved therefrom only if accompanied by a 

 licence authorising such movement granted by an Inspector of 

 the local authority of the district in which the lairs, market, or 

 saleyard may be situate and only to a bacon factory or slaughter- 

 house specified in the licence, and such movement shall be 

 subject to the conditions of the Order as to marking and 

 movement ; and 



4. Swine moved under the Order to a bacon factory or 

 slaughter-house shall after their arrival thereat be there detained 

 until they are slaughtered. 



The Bavarian Law on Cattle Insurance* of May nth, 1896, 



provides that only cattle and goats shall be insured by the 



Government, and not swine. Swine, how- 



Insurance of ever, are insured in the municipal slaughter- 

 Swine in Bavaria. , , - . . -7 T 



houses throughout Bavaria, and Mr. JL. 



Buchmann, H.M. Consul at Munich, has furnished the Board, 

 through the Foreign Orifice, with the following particulars on the 

 subject. 



The slaughter-house in Munich began insuring swine on 

 June 1st, 1903. The premium for the insurance of swine about 

 to be slaughtered amounts to 10 pfennigs (rather more than a 

 penny) per animal. Swine sold for breeding purposes are 

 insured for the space of three days after sale against " wild fire " 

 and " swine-pox." Swine sold for slaughter are insured for the 

 space of fourteen days after sale against " tuberculous disease," 

 trichinosis," and " measles." Only apparently sound swine 

 are insured. 



From June 1st, 1903, to September 30th, 1904 (sixteen 

 months), 301,321 swine were thus insured in the Munich 

 municipal slaughter-house, at the rate of about a penny each ; 

 the sum paid in premiums during this period Was about 

 ^"1,506 ios., out of vvhich losses were paid to the amount of 

 about ;£ 1,370, so that the balance on the insurance for swine 

 amounted to £136 ios. for sixteen months. 



* Information respecting the Insurance of Live Stock in Bavaria was given in this 

 onrnal, Vol. XL, No. 1, April, 1904. 



