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Live Stock Import Regulations. 



[JAN., 



Kingdom was commenced the old breed of very fat swine has 

 been replaced by the Yorkshire pig ; this breed has been kept 

 pure. There are only a few breeders who prefer to mix it 

 with the old Danish breed. Of the new Danish-Yorkshire 

 pigs there is a considerable export to Russia of pedigree 

 animals, as there is of the red Danish cattle, whereas pedigree 

 animals are no longer imported from the United Kingdom. 



Sheep. — Since the bacon industry has developed so much 

 the number of swine has been increasing year by year, while 

 the number of sheep is going constantly down. There are 

 some few breeders who keep flocks of Southdown sheep, but 

 there is neither import nor export, and generally speaking 

 very little interest is taken in this animal. 



With reference to the summary of the Canadian Order as to 

 the Importation of Live Stock free of duty which appeared 



in this Journal, September, 1908, 

 Live Stock Import P- 449, the Board have now received a 

 Regulations— Canada.* copy of the Regulations issued by the 



Dominion Department of Customs to 

 its Collectors, which came into operation on 1st July, 1908. 

 The Regulations dated 1st June, in respect of the free entry 

 under the customs tariff of horses, cattle, sheep, goats, asses, 

 swine, and dogs, for the improvement of stock, are as 

 follows : — 



1. No animal imported for the improvement of stock shall be admitted free 

 of duty unless the importer is domiciled in Canada or is a British subject, and 

 furnishes a certificate of the record and pedigree in a list of registers designated 

 from time to time by the Minister of Customs, showing that the animal is 



* Live Stock import regulations have been published in this Journal for the 

 following countries: — United States, Sept., 1906, and Sept., 1907; Argentina, 

 Jan., 1905, April, 1905, Oct., 1905, and June, 1906; New South Wales, April, 

 1905 ; Germany, May, 1905 ; New Zealand, June, 1905 ; South Australia, July, 

 1905; France, Aug., 1905; Belgium, Sept., 1905; Uruguay, Oct., 1905; 

 Victoria, Nov., 1905; Spain, Dec, 1905; Queensland, Jan., 1906; Western 

 Australia, Feb., 1906 ; Tasmania, March, 1906; Transvaal, June, 1906; Ceylon, 

 Cape Colony, Sept., 1906; Holland, Malta, Oct., 1906; Austria-Hungary, Nov., 

 1906; Russia, Hungary, Dec, 1906; Iceland, Italy, India, Feb., 1907; Isle of 

 Man (sheep), Ireland, March, 1907 ; Canada, Isle of Man (swine), Jamaica, 

 April, 1907 ; Norway, Sweden, Isle of Man (sheep), July, 1907 ; British Isles 

 (horses), Nov., 1907, Feb., 1908; Natal, Dec, 1907; Cuba, Philippines, Oct., 

 1908. 



