Importation of Horses into Belgium. 



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 taining comparatively little iron and aluminium, is easy to 

 work, and with cheap freights could, it is said, compete with 

 any phosphate of the same grade in European markets. 



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Importation of Horses into Belgium. 



The Board of Agriculture have received information through 

 the Foreign Office that a new decree, dated March 14th, 

 1897, relating to the sanitary condition of imported horses, 

 came into force in Belgium on April 15th last. It is stated 

 in the Report to the King that horses imported into Belgium 

 for slaughter were in many cases considered capable of still 

 rendering some service, and were consequently not 

 slaughtered on arrival, but reserved for further work. As 

 these were often found to be suffering from glanders or farcy, 

 Belgian horses were thus contaminated with this disease. 



Under the new decree, all horses brought into Belgium 

 are to be inspected on arrival at the cost of the importer. 

 Horses imported for slaughter will be marked with a metallic 

 button, and must be forwarded direct to a slaughter-house, 

 and there killed within eight days at latest. In default, the 

 animals will be slaughtered by the authorities without 

 indemnity. 



Horses of suspicious origin and not declared for slaughter, 

 horses of low value, and all those suspected of glanders and 

 farcy, or of having been exposed to contagion from this 

 disease, are to undergo an injection of mallein. With this 

 intent they are to be retained under observation at the 

 frontier, at the expense of the importer, during three days at 

 least. Animals found to be affected with glanders or farcy 

 will be slaughtered, without indemnity, within three days at 

 latest. 



The inspection fee is fixed at 2s. 6d. per head for horses 

 which have to undergo the mallein test, and at iod. for 

 others. 



The only ports by which horses can be imported into- 



