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Monthly Council , May 2, 1894. 
he desired to explain the reasons of 
the recommendation made by the 
Veterinary Committee that no entries 
of pigs should be accepted for 
Cambridge. The Council would have 
observed, from the correspondence 
between the Secretary of the Society 
and the Board of Agriculture, which 
had been circulated and published, 
that, in the view of the Board, it was 
necessary to maintain the existing 
restrictions as to the movement of pigs 
now in the counties scheduled as 
“ Swine Fever Infected Areas.” 
That being so, the Society would 
have been precluded in any case from 
accepting any entries from the 
scheduled counties ; and, in view of 
the extent to which swine fever was 
still prevailing, the Veterinary Com- 
mittee had been compelled to 
consider whether any exhibition of 
pigs at all in the Cambridge Show- 
yard should be permitted. Having 
carefully considered the whole 
circumstances, the Veterinary Com- 
mittee were unanimous in their 
opinion that it would be best to 
decline all entries of pigs. There 
was, of course, the consideration that 
the entries of pigs would be very 
partial, some counties not being able 
to exhibit, and others being free 
from the disease. It was a matter of 
common knowledge that many people 
were taking measures to send their 
pigs out of infected districts into non- 
infected districts for the purpose of 
sending them to the Show, and the 
consequences of an outbreak in the 
Showyard would be very serious. 
Under these circumstances, the 
Council would probably be of opinion 
that it would be very much better, 
both in the interests of the Society 
and in the interests of owners of 
stock, that they should decline to 
accept any entries of pigs at Cam- 
bridge. He begged, therefore, for- 
mally to move — 
That, having regard to the fact stated in 
Professor Brown’s report to the Veterinary 
Committee that swine fever continues as 
prevalent as ever, and looking to the very 
serious inconvenience which would result if 
a case of the disease should occur iu the 
Showyard, and necessitate the slaughter and 
burial of all the pigs sent for exhibition, no 
entries of pigs be accepted for the Cambridge 
Meeting. 
The Hon. C. T. PARKER having 
seconded the motion, 
Mr. Terry said he would like to 
ask a few questions with regard to 
this matter, which he considered was 
very serious for the breeders of pigs 
who might be intending to exhibit, 
and who had been getting their pigs 
ready for a long time for the Cam- 
bridge Meeting. From the report 
that Professor Brown had made, he 
gathered that swine fever was still as 
prevalent as ever, but that it was 
not more prevalent than it was three 
months ago. Pie did not know, and 
he could not think, of any case of 
swine fever whatever that had 
emanated from any of their show- 
yards, although the disease had been 
raging throughout the country for a 
very considerable period. If the pigs 
did not go to the Royal Show, they 
would be going to county shows. He 
considered that there was less danger 
in contracting disease from the 
exhibition of pigs than in the exhibi- 
tion of any other animals, because 
pigs were put into the crates, out of 
which they were not taken until they 
got into the showyard. He quite 
agreed that they ought to do all they 
could to stamp out swine fever, but, 
at the same time, it was rather late 
to be taking such a serious view of it 
as they were now doing. 
Mr. Stanyforth said that as he 
was responsible for bringing this 
matter forward inthe Veterinary Com- 
mittee, he might perhaps be allowed 
to say a few words upon this very im- 
portant subject. He would like first 
of all to read out the list of districts 
at present scheduled as infected. 
There were large areas, comprising 
the counties of Bedford, Chester, 
Derby, Lancaster, Norfolk. Somerset, 
Stafford, Warwick, the West Riding 
of Yorkshire, and other districts. 
They would see that these areas 
comprised a very large proportion of 
England. Professor Brown’s report 
said that swine fever was as prevalent 
as ever, and that there was cer- 
tainly no decrease. Very likely 
before their Show there might be 
other portions of England which 
would be scheduled as infected areas, 
so that their show of pigs could not 
be called a representative one. In ad- 
dition to those who were prevented by 
law from coming from infected areas, 
they had received letters from 
