Sept. 1894.] PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 91 



XV.— PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS DEALING 

 WITH AGRICULTURE. 



Board of Agriculture. Further Papers and Correspondence 

 relating to the Landing in Great Britain from Canada 

 of Cattle affected with Pleuro-Pneitmonia, tvith a copy of a 

 Minute of the Board of Agriculture dated the ISth August, 

 1894 and Minutes of Evidence and Appendices ((7.-7496). 

 Price 8Jd 



This volume is in continuation of Parliamentary Papers 

 C.-7123 and C.-7866. It contains a copy of a Minute of the Board 

 of Agriculture dated 13th August 1894, relating the circumstances 

 which determined the Board to institute a special inquiry as to 

 the character of the morbid appearances present in the lungs of 

 certain cattle landed in Great Britain from Canada, and setting 

 forth the conclusions at which the Board have arrived upon a 

 careful review of the evidence and facts before them. 



The Board state that it is beyond question that a disease 

 occurs in the lungs of Canadian cattle imported into this country, 

 which, in the opinion of many of the most experienced and best 

 qualified veterinarians in this country, is contagious pleuro- 

 pneumonia, which, even in the opinion of pathologists ready to 

 admit the hypothesis that the disease is new and hitherto un- 

 observed, is a bacterial or germ disease, and which could not 

 have developed to the extent shown on the slaughter of the 

 diseased animals in this country a fortnight or three weeks after 

 shipment, unless it had been originally contracted before leaving 

 Canada. In the view of the Board these matters deserve and 

 will doubtless receive the serious attention of the Canadian 

 Government, and of public and private veterinarians in the 

 Dominion, but in the meantime the duty of the Board is clear. 

 They have no alternative but to act on the assumption that the 

 disease found in the Canadian animals was in fact contagious 

 pleuro-pneumonia, and in view of this fact they must maintain 

 in force the normal security provided by the statute against the 

 introduction of disease by means of imported animals, viz., by 

 their slaughter at their first port of landing. 



This volume also contains the Minutes of Evidence (with 

 Appendices), given to the President of the Board of Agriculture, 

 as to the appearances present in the lungs of certain cattle 

 landed in Great Britain from Canada in May and June 1894. 



Report hy Mr. D. F. Schloss on Profit Sharing. Labour 

 Department, Board of Trade. [C.--7458.] Price lOd. 



This report contains information respecting several schemes 

 of profit-sharing in agriculture, which have been promoted by 

 landowners and others in different parts of the country. Among 



