The question of -removing the Canadian Cattle Embargo was debated
in the House of Commons last Monday. There was a full House, and the division of the Cabinet and the withholding of the Government Whips made the debate of peculiar interest. Sir Arthur -Griffith-Boscawen declared that the removal of the embargo would seriously damage our agricultural industry. It would mean thefailure of our milk-recording schemes and nullify the •efforts of our farmers to improve the breed of ordinary cattle. He dismissed as a fallacy the suggestion that there would be any reduction in the price of meat, and endeavoured to show that what Mr. Asquith called a pledge to admit Canadian " stores " was in effect merely a pledge to remove the stigma. Mr. Churchill replied that he would give his support to any measure that would foster agriculture, provided that such a measure was also in the interests of the people. - He maintained that, above all, the removal of the embargo was quite as much an Imperial question as an agricultural question. The statement that the importation of Canadian cattle would endanger our own herds was mere pretence. Our cattle had remained the cleanest in the world in spite of an importation from Ireland far larger than any we could anticipate from Canada, and Irish cattle -could by no means show a bill of health comparable with that of Careelian cattle.
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