1905.] 



Vegetable Matter in Wool. 



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The charges for veterinary inspection at those places where 

 a veterinary service exists are to be as follows : — Horses, asses, 

 and mules, per head, iod. (1 franc) ; sheep, lambs, and goats, id. 

 per head ; pigs and sucking pigs, id. per head. Cattle intended 

 for slaughter and so marked : bulls, bullocks, cows, per 

 head ; young bulls and bullocks, heifers and calves, 5d. per 

 head. Cattle tested with tuberculin, and horses and asses tested 

 with mallein, ih francs per head. 



Animals arriving by sea and found to be affected with 

 pleuro-pneumonia, sheep-pox, or foot-and-mouth disease, to- 

 gether with those exposed to infection, are to be killed under 

 the supervision of the veterinary inspector. 



In the case of foot-and-mouth-disease among breeding 

 animals, authority may be given for them to be quarantined. 



Animals attacked with glanders and farcy are to be 

 slaughtered ; while those in contact, and those presenting 

 suspicious symptoms of glanders are to be tested with mallein. 



Animals affected with anthrax or with quarter-ill or blackleg 

 (Jievre charbonneuse ou charbon symptomatique) are to be 

 destroyed, and those in contact are sent to the butcher. 



Sheep affected with sheep-scab are to be slaughtered imme- 

 diately in the abattoir under the supervision of the veterinary 

 inspector, but in the case of breeding stock, quarantine may 

 be authorised. 



In the case of pigs, animals affected with swine erysipelas 

 or swine fever {rouget or pneumo-enterite infectieuse) are to be 

 immediately slaughtered, together with those in contact. 



Complaints have recently been made to the Bradford Chamber 

 of Commerce by spinners and manufacturers with regard to 

 the increasing amount of vegetable matter 



Mattef^^ool. ^ grass ' straw ' hemp ' which a PP ears 

 in British wools, and the serious damage 



resulting therefrom. The Bradford Chamber have accordingly 



issued a circular letter to British Chambers of Agriculture 



and to wool-growers drawing attention to the matter, with 



a view to some remedial action being taken. 



It is recognised that these extraneous matters only get into 



the wool through inadvertence ; for instance, through shearing 



