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In view of the bad condition in which poultry is frequently 

 imported into Argentina, and the possibility of birds intended 

 for breeding purposes introducing diseases 

 Regulations as to the which do not now exist, a law dated 

 Importation of Poultry 7th February, 1908, has been passed 

 into Argentina. which provides that : — 



The Live Stock Department shall inspect 

 all birds which are imported into the country, detain those 

 which are suspected of being the vehicle of any disease and 

 destroy those which offer any risk of spreading any contagious 

 disease or which may be unfit for human consumption. 



Those birds arriving dead are to be destroyed and those 

 which come in the same cage or which have come from the same 

 place shall be considered as suspected until the cause of the 

 death of the former shall have been ascertained. 



From 1st March, 1908, birds will not be allowed to enter 

 the country without a sanitary certificate from the Live Stock 

 Department. 



As a means of affording some measure of control over the 

 horse-breeding industry, the Department of Agriculture of 

 Victoria adopted in 1907 a system of 

 Registration of issuing Government certificates of sound- 

 Stallions in Victoria, ness for stallions which on inspection and 

 examination by one of the Government 

 veterinary officers are found free from hereditary unsoundness 

 and defective conformation. The certificates are given for all 

 breeds — draught horses, light horses and ponies — and it is 

 provided that blemishes, unsoundness or defects of conformation 

 which are the result of accident, external injury, overstrain or 

 overwork will not disqualify. 



During the year 889 stallions were examined, and this number 

 represents between 70 and 80 per cent, of the stallions standing 

 for public use in the State. The Chief Veterinary Officer of 

 Victoria, in reporting on the subject (Journal of Agriculture, 

 December, 1907), observes that it is significant of the apprecia- 

 tion with which the scheme is regarded by the horse-breeders of 

 the State that so large a percentage of horses should have been 

 voluntarily submitted for examination during the first season. 

 The following ten conditions are regarded as evidence of 



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