360 Report on the Agriculture of Denmark, with a Note on 
Hamburg, Holstein, &c., where tbey were fed, and thence found their way, 
fattened, in all probabiUty, upon Danish oil-cake, to our markets — an inter- 
mediate agent thus reaping the profits that ought to have been shared by the 
producer and consumer. This disturbance to the trade between our two 
countries tells heavily just now on the interests of both : the present are of 
most importance, perhaps, to Denmark ; the future to us. I was informed, on 
reliable authority, that Denmark could export at once at the rate of 40,000 
store-beasts per annum, with a probable increase, if the trade answered, of 
10,000 each year ; and with these could be sent the surplus-stock of upwards 
of 3000 tons per annum of oil-cake. The interest of the Danish farmers 
clearly is to consume their cake at home, and send us over fat- instead of store- 
stock ; ours is to take their store-cattle and their cake, and from the two 
nanufacture our own butcher's meat, finding our principal profit-returns 
in the beneficial consumption of our roots, and the value of the resulting 
manure. 
"The risk of infection from Denmark is reduced to a minimum. The 
geographical position of the country isolates her well-nigh as perfectly as our 
own, while, at the same time, her surplus-produce going outwards diminishes 
the chance of any imported disease. The existing regulations, too, of the 
Government are of the most searching and stringent character. It is under- 
stood that any additional restrictions will be placed, in regard to both import 
and export movements of stock, that may be considered desirable to ensure 
perfect safety to the cattle-trade between our two countries. Can no measures 
be devised to meet this unsatisfactory state of things ? Can no regulations be 
framed that will allow us to buy, and Denmark to sell, what we mutually 
want, and thus benefit both countries without increasing the risk to either.?" 
Since the foregoing extract was written, great changes have 
been made in our laws relating to the importation of foreign 
cattle. Two years afterwards, the Contagious Diseases (Animals) 
Act, 1869, Avas passed, and under it, and the Orders in Council 
issued under its authority, foreign countries from which we 
import cattle have been divided into two classes, viz., the 
Scheduled and the Unscheduled. Animals from Schedided coun- 
tries are not permitted to go into the interior of the United 
Kingdom, but must be slaughtered in a certain defined jjart of 
the port of landing ; while those from the Unscheduled may pass 
into the country if the Government Veterinary Inspector certifies 
them to be free from disease, as a result of his examination of 
them by daylight, after they have been landed for a period of 
not less than twelve hours. Denmark is included in the list of 
Unscheduled countries, and there is now, therefore, no Jegislative 
impediment to the importation of store-stock from that country. 
We have seen from the Table on p. 319, that the importation 
of cattle from Denmark into the United Kingdom has more than 
trebled in the five years, 1870-74, succeeding the passing of this 
Act ; but there can be no doubt that this increase almost entirely 
consists of fat cattle, the system of agriculture hitherto pursued 
in Denmark, as already described, resulting in the large proprie- 
tors or the marsh-land farmers getting the profit of the meat- 
manufacture. 
