Canadian Agriculture. 
387 
No. 
Value. 
£ 
200, 49G 
3,555,578 
28,448 
286,392 
11,314 
239,176 
Total 
240,258 
£4,081,140 
the Dominion are subjected to a rigid quarantine. I have 
already given some account of the regulations respecting the 
admission of cattle from the Western States of the Union into 
Manitoba and the North- West, and this seems an appropriate 
place in which to sketch briefly the history of the live-stock 
quarantine in Eastern Canada. The terrible outbreak of foot- 
and-mouth disease and of pleuro-pneumonia in England, in the 
year 1875, led the Canadian Parliament to pass an Act pro- 
hibiting the importation of cattle from the mother country. 
Notwithstanding this prohibition, Mr. Whitfield, a wealthy 
West India merchant, possessing an extensive stock farm at 
Rougemont, Province of Quebec, tried to import some thirty 
thoroughbred cattle from Liverpool, hoping his plea of im- 
proving Canadian live-stock would lead to an exception being 
made in his favour. But the Department of Agriculture re- 
mained firm, and Mr. Whitfield had to remove his cattle to 
Newfoundland, whence they were re-shipped to England and 
sold at an enormous loss. It is pleasant to be able to record, 
however, that Mr. Whitfield has now upon his Rougemont 
estate, which he has recently placed at the temporary disposal 
of the Provincial Government as a model farm, upwards of 
lOOjOOOZ. worth of carefully selected and imported pedigree 
live-stock. 
The case just mentioned was brought under the notice of the 
authorities at Ottawa by Dr. McEachran, of Montreal, who 
represented that it was a serious drawback to the cattle raisers 
and breeders of Canada to be prohibited from importing live- 
stock from across the Atlantic. The result was the establish- 
ment, in 1876, of the first live-stock quarantine station in 
Canada. An admirable site was chosen in the interior of the 
Government fort at Point Levis, on the south shore of the 
St. Lawrence, opposite Quebec. The accommodation, small at 
first, has been extended, till now some fifty acres of land inside 
and outside the fortifications are occupied by the station ; there 
are eighteen sheds, and as many as 700 head of cattle can be 
accommodated at one time. For the first three years the qua- 
rantine was limited to the insufficient period of eight days, but 
