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The Board desire to draw attention to the regulation as 

 to the importation of horses, asses and mules contained in 

 the Glanders and Farcy Order of 1907^ 

 Importation of Horses Section 2 of which provides that no 

 into Great Britain, horse, ass or mule brought to Great 

 Britain from any other country, except 

 Ireland the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man, shall be 

 landed in Great Britain unless it is accompanied by a certifi- 

 cate of a veterinary surgeon to the effect that he examined 

 the animal immediately before it was embarked or whilst it 

 was on board the vessel, as the case may be, and that he found 

 that the animal did not show any symptoms of glanders or 

 farcy. 



The comparative effects of stall-feeding and pasturage 

 from the point of view of physiology and breeding formed the 

 subject of two papers read at the Inter- 

 Effect of Pasturage on national V eterinary Congress at Vienna, 

 the Health of Cattle, in both of which the importance of feed- 

 ing in the field was emphasized as a means 

 of maintaining the health and strength of the race. M. de 

 Kovacsy pointed out that an animal kept in the stall is deprived 

 of the hardening influence of nature ; its organism is weakened 

 and loses its capacity to resist disease. It is principally through 

 stall-feeding that tuberculosis is most effectually propagated, 

 for the stalls are mostly dark and badly ventilated, so that disease 

 germs accumulate and are inhaled by healthy animals. In 

 the case . of pasturage, infection of this kind occurs far less 

 often, and consequently tuberculosis and other diseases are 

 found in a much slighter proportion among animals kept per- 

 manently in the pasture. Stall-feeding on the other hand has 

 the advantage that it enables pasture land to be turned into 

 arable, which is more profitable ; it tends to a richer production 

 of manure ; the manure is more easily managed ; and, finally, 

 the productive capacity of the animals is more easily increased 

 and their produce better turned to account. 



The disadvantages of permanent stall-feeding may be 

 lessened by so altering the stalls that light can sufficiently 

 penetrate and exercise its disinfective influence and by making 

 ventilation as perfect as possible ; the floor and the stall-fittings 



