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is growing up that the compulsory dipping of sheep is bene- 

 ficial to the industry for reasons other than those connected 

 solely with the eradication of sheep-scab. 



Anthrax was dealt with in a new Order issued in Septem- 

 ber, 1910, which came into force at the beginning of the 

 present year. In issuing the new Order the Board laid stress 

 upon the fact that anthrax is a disease against which it is 

 not practicable entirely to guard on account of the multi- 

 plicity of the channels through which infection may be con- 

 veyed. Although the eradication of the disease cannot be 

 aimed at, it is possible to bring it more under control. It 

 is believed that the new Order will be of service in securing 

 the collection of more trustworthy statistics to form a basis 

 upon which to build up any other measures which further 

 experience may indicate as likely to reduce the risk of infec- 

 tion, and that the co-operation of the agricultural community 

 may be relied upon in carrying the new arrangements into 

 effect. The experience obtained during the current year 

 appears to show that more trustworthy statistics are being 

 obtained. 



A matter which attracted a good deal of public interest in 

 the preceding year was the exportation of horses to the Conti- 

 nent, and this subject was dealt with by the Diseases of 

 Animals Act, 1910, which enacted that it shall not be lawful, 

 except as provided in the Act and in such cases as may be 

 prescribed by Order of the Board, to ship or to attempt to 

 ship any horse in any vessel from any port in Great Britain 

 to any port outside the British Islands, unless immediately 

 before shipment the horse has been examined by a veterinary 

 inspector appointed by the Board for the purpose, and has 

 been certified in writing by him to be capable of being con- 

 veyed to such port and disembarked without cruelty. 



The Board's Senior Superintending Veterinary Inspector, 

 in his Report to the Board, states that the persons in- j 

 terested in the trade in horses to the Continent seem 

 now to admit that the changes which have been made 

 have put the trade on a firmer and more satisfactory basis, 

 and that the greater measure of uniformity in administration j 

 which has been brought about by the direct intervention of j 

 the Central Authority has, on the whole, been beneficial to 

 their business. He is further of opinion that much of the 



