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Extracts from British and Foreign Journals. 
CENTRAL CHAMBER OE AGRICULTURE. 
A COUNCIL meeting of the Central Chamber of Agricul¬ 
ture was held on Tuesday, March 2nd, at the Salisbury 
Hotel, Fleet Street, under the presidency of Mr. C. S. 
Read, M.P. 
Mr. Bachham introduced the subject of legislation with 
reference to the establishment of safety markets for im¬ 
ported animals, and the regulation of the trade and traffic 
in home-bred animals, for the prevention of contagious 
diseases : in doing so he enforced the following resolutions : 
1. This chamber considers that a consolidated act, appli¬ 
cable to the United Kingdom, for the sanitary regulation of 
the home trade and traffic in animals, and for the establish¬ 
ment of safeguards against the introduction of foreign diseases, 
is indispensable for preventing enormous losses of live stock 
by contagion and infectious disorders. 
2. This chamber considers that strict regulations should 
be imposed as to the accommodation, feeding, watering, and 
security from contagion of animals in transit by ships or rail¬ 
way; that it should be made penal to remove by road, railway, 
or water, or to exhibit in any fair, market, or public sale, 
arrivals suffering from cattle-plague, pleuro-pneumonia, 
sheep-pox, foot and mouth disease, scab, or glanders, and 
that all fairs, markets, and public sales should be subject to 
efficient inspection. 
‘^3. This chamber considers that owners of animals suffer¬ 
ing from contagious or infectious disease should be required 
to give immediate notice of the existence of such disease to 
any authority appointed for the purpose; and that it should 
be made illegal to remove animals for a specified period from 
any infected farm or premises. 
4. Tiffs chamber considers that the introduction of 
foreign diseases can be prevented only by slaughter or by 
quarantine of imported animals at the place of debarkation; 
and that for the accommodation of importers and the interest 
of the public, licensed markets, with lairs and abattoirs 
attached, should be provided at the seaports where animals 
from foreign countries are landed.^^ 
Mr. Bighy, of Cheshire, seconded the resolutions, which 
were supported by various members of the council. They 
w'ere passed unanimously, with one or two minute verbal 
alterations .—Baily Telegrajyh. 
