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have practically abandoned the N ew England ports as places of 
shipment, and now utilise to the fullest extent the facilities 
offered by the St. Lawrence route. All cattle and sheep sent 
from Canada are submitted to veterinary inspection before ship- 
ment. Further proof of the extreme care which is taken to 
keep Canada out of the schedule is afforded by the fact that, on 
this side of the Atlantic, the High Commissioner for Canada, 
the Hon. Sir Charles Tupper, K.C.^I.G., has maintained a 
rigid inspection of all live-stock passing either way between 
this country and the Dominion, and Mr. John Dyke, the able 
and courteous agent of the Canadian Government at Liverpool, 
exercises a watchful supervision over all cattle which arrive 
there from, or leave there for, Canadian ports. 
So highly appreciated is the system of quarantine at Quebec, 
that a very large proportion of the cattle destined for the 
United States now enter by this route, and it is estimated that 
of cattle imported for States west of Ohio, fully 75 per cent, go 
by way of Quebec. The following statement not only illustrates 
the rapid growth in the importation of live-stock from Europe, 
but serves to show the number of animals which have been 
landed at Quebec since the establishment of the quarantine in 
1876:— 
Cif.le. 
Sheep. 
1876 
109 
305 
17 
431 
1877 
124 
38 
162 
1878 
45 
113 
17 
175 
1879 
114 
369 
6 
489 
1880 
396 
400 
796 
1881 
701 
1100 
40 
1841 
1882 
1209 
1124 
22 
2355 
1883 
1867 
603 
41 
2511 
1884 
1607 
473 
26 
2106 
An analysis of the imports at Quebec in 1882 gives the 
following results : — 
Cattle. 
Sheep. 
Pigs. 
For Canada 
574 
998 
22 
For United States .. 
635 
126 
1209 
1124 
The Canadian import was distributed among the various 
provinces thus : — 
