LIVE STOCK IN QUEENSLAND. ZONE 
glanders in any of the animals on board, all such affected 
animals shall be immediately killed, and their carcases taken 
out to sea, sufficiently. and properly weighted, and thrown 
overboard at a place indicated by the port authorities. 
3. The remaining portion of any such shipment shall be 
allowed to be landed only on condition that they are removed 
to a quarantine station, approved of by the Government, and 
there subjected to a test with mallein by a duly qualified 
officer, under direction of a Government veterinary surgeon, 
and detained for such further period as may be necessary. 
Alm the event of the test indicating the existence of 
glanders, all animals so shown to be affected shall also be 
destroyed. as | ise 
5. All expenses of inspection, quarantine, destruction and 
otherwise shall be borne by the owner of such animals. 

The Board of Agriculture have received a notification 
from the Foreign Office that by a decree, 
it which came into force on September 18th 
Italy. last, the importation into Italy of swine 
flesh, salted, smoked, or otherwise pre- 
pared for keeping, is permitted from the United Kingdom, 
provided it be accompanied by a sanitary certificate of the 
authorities of its place of origin. 

The returns of the numbers of live stock in Queensland 
in 1899 showed a diminution in all classes 
of animals except pigs. This decline 
was particularly marked in sheep, which 
numbered 15,226,000 as compared with 17,553,000 in 1898, 
the number recorded last year being the lowest returned 
since 1889. In the case of cattle there was a decrease of 
517,000 head, the number returned being 5,054,000. This 
also is the lowest return for horned stock recorded during 
Live Stock in 
Queensland. 
