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THE VETERINARIAN, NOVEMBER 1, 1869. 
Xe quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
IRELAND AND ITS CATTLE EXPORTS. 
Great Britain being to a considerable extent a manu¬ 
facturing country^ agricultural live stock cannot be said to 
be produced in sufficient quantity to supply the amount of 
animal food required by its meat-consuming population. 
Recourse has_, therefore, to be had to Ireland, as well as to 
most of the European continental states, to make up the 
deficiency. Ireland is not, as yet,—probably from being 
deficient in coal—in the ordinary sense of the term, a manu- 
facturing country. Its manufacturing industry is on a very 
limited scale compared with the number of its population, and, 
as such, one of its principal trades consists in the export of 
live stock, chiefly cattle, to Great Britain. Until recently, 
indeed up to the time of swine having become so scarce in 
Ireland from the ravages of infectious and contagious 
diseases, pigs also formed a staple commodity of its export 
trade. Pigs were the live stock by which the Irish cottier- 
tenant principally paid his rent, and it is to be feared that 
many an eviction has taken place within the last two years in 
consequence of inability to pay rent, arising from the mor¬ 
tality among swine—a mortality which probably would have 
been prevented had proper means been taken to arrest the 
spread of infectious and contagious diseases among animals 
in general. Such inaction, however, on the part of the 
authorities would appear not to be easily converted into a 
political grievance, and hence it is silently passed over by 
professional agitators. 
No deficiency, however, of legislation relative to conta¬ 
gious and infectious diseases among animals can be said to 
exist in Ireland. By the Contagious Diseases Animals Act 
of 1866, and the several Council Orders which have been 
issued under it, ample provision has been made, if carried 
into effect, for accomplishing the desired end, but these 
