77o British Export Trade in Live Stock. [Dec, 



The following are the recommendations made by the Com- 

 mittee : — 



(1) The export of inferior or unsuitable pedigree stock 

 should be discouraged. 



(2) In the appointment of consuls to certain districts a 

 knowledge of British live stock should be taken into con- 

 sideration. 



(3) The Intelligence Division of the Board of Agriculture 

 and Fisheries should be enlarged so as to provide a "Bureau 

 of Information " for increasing the facilities as regards the 

 export of pedigree stock. 



(4) The official volume entitled, "British Breeds of Live 

 Stock " should be supplied to British consuls and presented 

 to representative agricultural bodies in certain countries. 



. (5) Official encouragement and assistance should be given 

 to the system of keeping milk records. 



(6) It is desirable that, in the case of countries where ex- 

 porters of British livestock find difficulties to exist in connec- 

 tion with the tuberculin and other tests, the Government of 

 each country concerned should in the first place be invited 

 to appoint an official in this country for the purpose of testing 

 animals before exportation, as the American and Australian 

 Governments have already done. In the event of any 

 Government declining to adopt this proposal, steps should be 

 taken to ascertain whether the authorities concerned would 

 recognise a certificate issued at a Government testing station 

 in this country, and the Committee recommends that an 

 official testing station (or stations) should be established 

 accordingly, if the exportation of live stock now or in the 

 future would seem to justify the capital and annual expendi- 

 ture necessary. 



(7) There should be no relaxation of the existing live stock; 

 import regulations which tend to prevent the introduction of 

 contagious animal diseases into this country. 



(8) Official assistance should be given for research work, 

 as regards the prevention and cure of contagious animal 

 diseases. 



(9) If the existing law is insufficient it should be strength- 

 ened in order to penalise a person who treats an animal sc 

 as to falsify, or with intent to falsify, the result of a test by 



