Canadian Agriculture. 391 
Pigs. 
Berkshire. 
Suffolk. 
Total. 
IS 
4 
22 
This is less than half of the import of the preceding year, and 
indicates that hog-raising is not progressing in Canada. Both 
sheep and pigs are allowed to proceed to their destination if, 
on inspection at Quebec, they are found to be free from disease. 
The live-stock imported in 1884 through the Quebec quarantine 
were distributed as follows : — 
Cattle. 
Sheep. 
Pigs. 
323 
303 
20 
To United States . . 
1284 
170 
6 
1G07 
473 
26 
The Quebec quarantine has attracted so much notice in the 
United States, that in August, 1882, it was visited and inspected 
by the American Treasury Cattle Commission, whose function 
it was to establish and maintain a proper system of cattle 
quarantine for live-stock imported from Europe under the 
supervision of the Treasury Board at Washington, which 
controls all matters connected with the imports and exports 
of the country. The Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill of 1881 
granted 10,000Z. for the establishment of cattle quarantine 
stations at such ports as New York, Boston, Baltimore, and 
Philadelphia. But American importers, having got used to the 
Quebec route, like it so much, and the Grand Trunk Railway 
gives such facilities by running fast through cattle trains to 
Chicago, that it will require very considerable inducements to 
bring about a change. The cost, too, at Quebec (21. to 3Z.) 
is less than at the United States ports. Not only is Quebec the 
cheapest port for this trade, but it commands a shorter route, 
and the infected districts of the United States, east of the 
Alleghanies, are avoided. 
It is necessary to add here that, for breeding purposes exclu- 
sively, American cattle are allowed to enter Canada, under 
strict quarantine, at Point Edward and one or two other places. 
Canadian Breeders. — At this stage I may appropriately in- 
troduce a brief summary of the leading breeders of cattle in 
Canada. Commencing with Shorthorns, or Durhams, as they 
