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Canadian Agriculture. 
The provisions made by the Canadian authorities to preserve 
the live-stock of the Dominion free from disease, cannot fail to 
enlist the svmpathetic attention of English farmers : and as the 
subject is, for various reasons, of special interest just at present, 
I proceed to give the substance of the regulations of an Order 
in Council which appeared in the official ' Canada Gazette ' so 
recently as September 8, 1884. It refers to Manitoba and the 
Xorth-West : — 
"Whereas the disease of pleuro-pnenmonia prevails among neat cattle in 
the Western State of Illinois, as well as in other more eastern of the United 
States, and there is reason to believe that neat cattle lor breeding purposes 
have been sent from the State of Illinois to more Western States and Terri- 
tories, it is ordered that the importation of neat cattle now permitted from 
the United States and Territories into the Province of Manitoba and the 
Xorth-West Territory of Canada be prohibited, except on the following con- 
ditions : — 
1. At Emerson, in Manitoba, or the points of Fort Walsh and Fort 
McLeod, in the districts of Alberta and Assiniboia, or such other points as 
may be hereafter indicated by the Minister of Agricidture. 
2. For stock or breeding purposes, neat cattle which have been brought to 
the Canadum frontier for importation may be allowed to cross, subject to 
regulations hereafter stated. 
3. For transit, from West to East, throtigh AUwrta, Assiniboia, and 
ilanitoba via Emerson or Gretna, to the State of Mianes-Jta, neat cattle may 
be allowed to cross the Canadian frontier at Fort Walsh and Fort McLecd, 
subject to regulations hereafter stated. 
4. At Emerson, such cattle from the East shall not be allowed to cross 
the Canadian frontier, unless after inspection by a duly-authorised veterinary 
surgeon, appointed by the Minister oi Agriculture, they shall be declared free 
from contagious disease, and also from well-fotmded suspicion thereof; and 
further, such cattle shall be subject to a quarantine of 60 days, or such other 
period as may appear to the Minister of Agriculture advisable. 
5. At Fort McLeod and Fort Walsh, cattle, whether for stock or breeding 
purpose-s cr for transit, shall not be allowed to cross the Canadian frontier 
unless they are declared by the duly authorised veterinary surgeon to be free 
from contagious disease, and also from well-fonnded suspicion thereof. 
6. The owner must produce a duly attested cenificate, stating the State 
or Territory and particular locality whence the cattle have been brought. 
7. The importer of such cattle shall pay a fee : for one arrival, 4s. ; for 
not exceeding five, 2.?. each : not exceeding ten, 1.?. 3d. each ; not exceeding 
twenty, lOd. each ; not exceeding fifty, W. each ; over fifty, od. each. 
8. No car which has been loaded with cattle in the United States, and 
crosses the Canadian frontier, shall be allowed afterwards to carry Canadian 
cattle. 
9. No car or cars carrying such United States cattle in transit from West 
to East, between the points above named, shall be allowed to be shimted iu 
close proximity to any Canadian cattle. 
10. Every such car shall be kept as far apart as possible from cars or 
trains carrying Can-idian cattle or Canadian goods. 
11. No such car shall form any part of a train carrying Canadian cattle. 
12. Every car or train carrying cattle in transit from West to East 1*-' 
tween the jwints before named, shall stop at svich fixed places as shall be 
named by the Minister of Agriculture for the purpose of rest, feeding and 
