SCOTTISH CHAMBER OF AGRICULTURE. 
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conveyance by the owner to the carrier, until they reach their 
destination ; and that the Privy Council be empowered to make 
such regulations as shall prevent unnecessary delays in the 
transit of animals by railway. 
2. That cattle or sheep be only carried in ships or steam¬ 
boats licensed for the purpose; that inspectors be appointed 
to prevent overcrowding; and that the holds of ships or steam¬ 
boats carrying cattle or sheep be properly ventilated; and that 
cattle or sheep be conveyed on railways only in covered trucks 
fitted with spring buffers. 
3. That the present system of showing store cattle and 
dairy cows in the fat markets is one of the most fruitful causes 
of spreading infectious diseases of all kinds; and, therefore, 
in or near large towns where fat markets are held, there should 
be provided separate markets for store cattle, for dairij cows, 
and iorfat cattle, so that none of these classes should come in 
contact with each other. 
4. That foreign cattle should only be admitted into this 
country at ports specially sanctioned by order of the Privy 
Council. 
5. That fat eattle from a foreign country should be excluded 
from every market save a licensed fat market, to be held at or 
near the port of debarkation, for the sale and slaughter of such 
foreign cattle, and that such markets should be under thorough 
government supervision. 
6. That foreign store cattle imported from a clean country, 
and which shall have been reported, on veterinary inspection, 
as clean before embarkation, and also on debarkation, and 
shall have been twenty-eight days in the possession of the 
importer on his own premises, near to landing, to which they 
shall be taken under license, and direct from the port of 
debarkation, may be shown for sale in any store market or 
public sale in the kingdom; and, on these conditions being 
complied with, should have the same freedom of transit as is 
allowed to home store eattle. 
7. That where, in Great Britain and Ireland, pleuro¬ 
pneumonia exists, intimation shall be given by the owner to 
the local authority within three days of its occurrence, and 
the entire stock on the premises should, at the instance of the 
local authority, be put under inspection, and isolated for a 
specified period, and disinfectants used under proper regu¬ 
lations ; and that the removal alive of any infected animal 
from an infected place, or the wilful exposure in open market, 
or at a public sale, of any animal suffering from pleuro-pneu- 
monia; or the knowingly taking such animals along the 
public highways, or conveying them by railway or boat. 
