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Importation Regulations. 



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Where the provisions of the order have been otherwise complied 

 with, animals will be certified as pure-bred which have been fully 

 registered in good faith in one of the books of record for one of the 

 recognised breeds given in the order, except those which have been 

 registered on inspection. 



Recognised Breeds. — The following British breeds of domestic 

 animals had been certified to the Secretary of the Treasury at the date 

 of the Order, the recognised herd or stud book of the breed being 

 referred to in each case : — 



Horses : Clydesdale, Hackney, Shetland Pony, Shire, Suffolk, 

 Thoroughbred, Welsh Pony and Cob. 



Cattle : Aberdeen-Angus, Alderney, Ayrshire, Devon, Galloway, 

 Guernsey, Hereford, Highland, Jersey (Royal Jersey Agricultural 

 Society's Herdbook and the Herdbook of the English Jersey Cattle 

 Society), Kerry and Dexter (English Kerry and Dexter Cattle Society, 

 and the Kerry and Dexter Herdbook of the Royal Dublin Society), Red 

 Polled, Shorthorn, Sussex, Welsh Black. 



Sheep : Cheviot, Cotswold, Dorset Horn, Hampshire Down, Kent 

 or Romney Marsh, Leicester, Leicester (Border), Lincoln, Oxford 

 Down, Shropshire, Southdown, Suffolk, Wensleydale. 



Pigs : Berkshire, Tamworth, Yorkshire (Herdbook of the National 

 Pig Breeders' Association). 



Certain foreign books are also recognised, together with the 

 Canadian National Records, in respect to certain specified breeds. 

 Recognition of an additional breed is obtained by submission for approval 

 to the United States Department of Agriculture of the whole of the 

 published volumes of the book of record, together with all the rules 

 in force relating to registration in the said book. 



These Regulations supersede all previous Orders, and the effect 

 is to withdraw the right of American and Canadian breeding societies 

 to issue certificates for the free entry of registered animals. 



By an Amendment (No. i) to the Order, no animals registered in 

 the Canadian National Records shall be certified by the Secretary of 

 Agriculture as pure-bred except those which trace in all crosses to 

 registered animals in the country where the breed originated. 



Importation into France of Dodder and Forage Seeds containing 

 Dodder. — With reference to the note given in this Journal, July, 1908, 

 p. 303, as to the prohibition of the importation into France of dodder 

 and forage seeds containing dodder, a French Customs Circular, issued 

 in 19 10, notified that forage seeds presented for importation in which 

 the presence of dodder has been ascertained, may, without previous 

 authorisation of the Minister of Agriculture, be freed from the parasite 

 in warehouses at certain specified ports. A further Customs Circular, 

 recently issued, provides that, in future, the waste resulting from 

 sifting — which, besides the dodder seed, often contains a quantity of 

 sound seeds — may, on application by the persons concerned, be re- 

 exported instead of being burned, as was required heretofore. It is 

 also notified that the duties on the seed freed from dodder may be 

 levied on the weight of such seeds after being freed from the parasite 

 in warehouse. (Board of Trade Journal, February 16th, 1910.) 



