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Foot-and-mouth disease was reported, on July 3rd, to exist at Bland's 

 Farm, Hounslow, Middlesex. The Chief Veterinary Officer and one of 

 the senior veterinary inspectors of the Board 

 Outbreaks of at once visited the premises, and found that 



Foot-and-mouth forty-two swine, out of a total of seventy-six 

 Disease. on t ^ Le ^ arm » were affected with the disease. 



In addition to the swine there were nineteen 

 cattle on the premises, one of which has been found to be also affected. 

 The infected place has been placed under strict police supervision, and 

 the whole of the animals remaining on the premises have been 

 slaughtered. On July 4th the Board made an Order controlling the 

 movement of cattle, sheep, goats, and swine into, out of, or within a 

 Scheduled District. 



A further case was confirmed on July 6th, on premises within a 

 quarter of a mile of the farm on which the original outbreak was 

 detected. One animal, a cow, was found to be affected. The Board 

 ordered the immediate slaughter of this animal, and of the remaining 

 animals — eight cows and one goat — on the same farm. 



With a view to relieve, as far as possible, difficulties in connection 

 with the movement of animals direct to slaughter-houses in London, 

 the Board made an Order on July 6th, allowing such movement by 

 railway or by water into London of animals brought from places out- 

 side the Scheduled District. The Order came into operation on July 10th. 



In the course of the house-to-house veterinary inspection of animals 

 in the Scheduled District, a further case of foot-and-mouth disease was 

 discovered on July 7th, on the premises known as Church Farm, Har- 

 lington. One cow was found to be affected, and there were on the 

 same holding nine other cows and seven calves, which had been in 

 contact with the affected cow. 



The Board have reason to believe that infection in this case was 

 carried by mediate contagion from Bland's Farm, and they have 

 accordingly directed the immediate slaughter, with compensation, of 

 the above-mentioned animals on Church Farm. 



On July 10th the Board made an Order further modifying the 

 restrictions on the movement of animals in the Scheduled District so as 

 to afford certain facilities for movement for slaughter and for feeding 

 or other special purposes. This Order came into operation on July 12th. 



The Board have been informed by the Department of Agriculture 

 and Technical Instruction for Ireland, Dublin, that the Department 

 have suspended, for the present, all importations from Great Britain 

 of cattle, sheep, goats, and other ruminating animals, and swine. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Importation of Plants into Canada.— Revised regulations, dated 

 February 27th, 1911, and published in the Canada Gazette of March 

 Importation nth, 191 T ' ^ave keen i ssue d under the 



Regulations. Destructive Insect and Pest Act (Canada). The 



following is a summary of the regulations in so 

 tar as they relate to stock originating in this country. 



Nursery stock, including all trees, shrubs, plants, vines, grafts, 



