Importation of Breeding Stock into Canada. 8i 



The sum of 126,708 for education includes £b,T^yo for the 

 agricultural school in Berlin ; ;£35,ooo for the agricultural 

 academy at Poppelsdorf ; and ;£2,66o for the pomological 

 school at Proskau. A subsidy of 0,000 is allocated to 

 agricultural intermediate schools, and 14,000 is to serve as 

 a fund for scientific or educational purposes ; and there is an 

 additional /J 5 5,530 for veterinary schools. Out of the vote 

 of ;£36,67i for the promotion of animal breeding a grant of 

 ;£ 10,500 is to be made towards prizes for horse races ; £%ooo 

 for prizes for stallions and mares for breeding purposes ; and 



1 5,000 for the encouragement of other branches of breeding. 

 A further sum of ;£30,ooo is put at the Minister's disposal for 

 subsidies to agricultural societies, the promotion of arbori- 

 culture, and for various other purposes. 



[Foreign Office Report , Amtual Series^ No. 2042. Price 2d.] 



Importation of British Breeding Stock into Canada. 



In the recently issued report of the Canadian Ministry of 

 Agriculture for the year 1897, it is stated that the importa- 

 tion of pure-bred cattle from Great Britain into Canada 

 stopped within the past ten years very largely on account of 

 the dread of contagious pleuro-pneumonia and of the protec- 

 tive regulations which were considered to be necessary, but that 

 as this disease is now almost unknown in Great Britain, 

 and is dealt with in a prompt and energetic manner when 

 discovered^ the danger is reduced to a minimum. As, 

 moreover, this disease is apparently only communicated by 

 contact of living animals, and there is no danger from build- 

 ings or ships, the Canadian Department of Agriculture has 

 consequently notified to steamship agents that they need not 

 fear the risk of quarantine if they should carry stock affected 

 by this disease ; and a serious difficulty, which would-be im- 

 porters experienced in getting cattle carried on steamships to 

 Canada, has thus been removed. 



To encourage Canadian importers, some of whom raised 

 objections to re-testing their cattle in Canada before leaving 



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