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Live Stock Import Regulations. [at-ril, 



holding the affected foot in the solution of copper sulphate 

 contained in a small vessel. 



A dry day should be selected for the operation, and the 

 sheep should be allowed to stand in a hard dry fold for half an 

 hour after leaving the bath. 



According to Regulations dated 27th August, 1902, horses, 



cattle, sheep, and goats may be introduced into New South 



Wales from the United Kingdom. They 



Live Stock Import must be shipped from London, Liver- 

 Regrulations— New . ~, , , , , , , . 



South Wales * P°°l> or Glasgow, and must be landed at 



Sydney. 



Any person intending to introduce foreign horses, cattle, 

 sheep, or swine into New South Wales is to give the Chief 

 Inspector of Stock not less than fourteen days' notice in writing 

 as to the number, description, breed, colour, and sex of the 

 stock, together with the name and address of the owner, the 

 rjort of shipment and name of vessel, and the expected date of 

 arrival. The exporter must make a declaration in the prescribed 

 form before a Justice of the Peace, stating the period during 

 which the stock have been his property or in his charge ; and to 

 the effect that they are, and have been for the preceding six 

 months, free from any infectious or contagious disease ; that they 

 have not been in contact with, or on the same farm as, any 

 infected stock ; that they have not, in the case of horses, been 

 tested within the preceding two months with mallein for 

 glanders ; nor, in the case of cattle, with tuberculin for tuber- 

 culosis. This declaration must also contain a statement by a 

 veterinary surgeon that he has examined the stock referred to, 

 and has no reason to doubt the correctness of the declaration in 

 any particular. 



Horses are to be tested with mallein by a properly qualified 

 veterinary surgeon, and cattle with tuberculin, immediately before 

 starting. The veterinary surgeon is to give a certificate bearing 

 a full description of the animals, and stating that they have 



* Live stock import regulations have been published in this Journal for the follow, 

 ing countries :— United States, Vol. X., No. I, June 1903, and Vol. XI., No. 7 

 Oct., 1904; Argentina, Jan., 1905 ; Cape Colony, Feb., 1905 ; and Canada, March' 

 1905. 



