no Marking Produce in Denmark. [may, 



formed ; and experience has shown that where the precautions re- 

 commended above have been scrupulously adhered to the disease 

 frequently ceases after the death of one animal on the farm. 



Stockowners are, therefore, earnestly invited to co-operate 

 with the public authorities, 



(a) By reporting every case of sudden and unexplained ill- 

 ness or death, especially amongst cattle, to the police ; 

 (d) By isolating the ailing animal, or by protecting the car- 

 case from persons or animals pending the arrival of 

 the veterinary inspector ; 



(c) By giving every facility to the officers of the public 

 authorities in carrying out the precautionary measures 

 enjoined by the Anthrax Order ; and 



(d) By affording such officers every assistance in their power 

 in tracing the origin of the outbreak. 



They are further strongly recommended to give positive orders 

 to their servants that under no circumstances is an ailing beast to 

 be killed by theni^ or its carcase opened where the cause of sick- 

 ness or death is unexplained. 



The Board have prepared a short notice (A dealing with 

 the principal points above set out, suitable for posting up in 

 byres or sheds. Copies can be obtained gratis and post free 

 from the Board. 



The Danish Parliament has recently passed an Act which 

 provides that certain imported agricultural produce must be 

 marked, on the packing or on the article 

 Markings of itself, so as to indicate whether it is of 

 j^Oduce in foreign or colonial (West Indian) origin. 

 Denmark. The products in question include butter^ 

 cheese, eggs, lard, tallow, honey, meat, 

 horse-flesh, cattle, sheep, swine and poultry. When such im- 

 ported goods are sold or re-exported they must be marked so as 

 to indicate clearly that they are not Danish ; and, in this con- 

 nection, the use of Danish place-names on the packing is for- 

 bidden. Premises where the produce, with the exception of 

 cheese and honey, is sold, must exhibit in a conspicuous place a 

 signboard which contains a definite " notice " that the goods 

 have been imported. The sale of mixtures of Danish and 



