34 



Sheep Dipping (Ireland) Order. 



[APRIL, 



from the United Kingdom shall make an application to the 

 Chief Constable of the island at least seven days before the 

 date of importation. Such application must contain a state- 

 ment of the ages, colour, sex, appearance and condition of the 

 swine, and must be accompanied by an affidavit from the person 

 whose property the swine have been during the previous three 

 months that they have not been in contact with any swine 

 affected with swine fever during the preceding six months. 



No swine may be imported without the written permission 

 of the Chief Constable, and the importer must give twenty- 

 four hours' notice, in writing, to the collector of customs and 

 the Chief Constable, of the port at which he proposes to land the 

 swine, and of the boat by which he proposes to import them. 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries desire to call the 

 attention of agriculturists in Great Britain generally and of 



persons engaged in the trade in sheep 

 Sheep Dipping from Great* Britain to Ireland in par- 

 (Ireland) Order. ticular, to the requirements of the Sheep 



Dipping (Ireland) Order of 1907, recently 

 made by the Department of Agriculture and Technical In- 

 struction for Ireland, which affect the trade in question. 

 Article 6 of the Order provides that during the prescribed 

 dipping period, viz., from the 15th June to the 31st August, 

 inclusive, sheep cannot enter, or be exposed for sale in, any 

 market, fair or saleyard in Ireland unless accompanied by a 

 declaration made by the owner of the sheep or his agent" on 

 a prescribed form, that they have been dipped during that 

 period in an approved sheep dip. In the case, however, of 

 sheep exposed for sale during the first twenty-eight days of 

 the prescribed dipping period, this requirement will be satisfied 

 if the declaration indicates that they have been dipped within 

 twenty-eight days preceding their movement to the market, 

 fair, or saleyard. 



As the above requirements apply equally to sheep which 

 may be taken from Great Britain for the purpose of exposure 

 for sale in Ireland, persons engaged in the cross-channel trade 

 should put themselves in a position to obtain the requisite 

 declaration to accompany the sheep on their entrv to the 



