Canadian Cattle
A long controversy ends with the Treasury order bringing into effect the clause in the Ottawa Agreements Act which permits the importation of all Canadian cattle, whether store animals or not. Until 1922 there was a strict embargo on Canadian cattle, for fear lest they should bring disease into Great Britain. Even then, store cattle only were to be admitted. All restrictions are now removed, since it is held that the voyage across the Atlantic constitutes a sufficiently long period of quarantine in doubtful cases. Now that the Free State cattle trade is impeded by the tariff war, the Canadian cattle are specially needed by our stock farmers, and the trade should benefit both the Dominion and this country. But it may be, hoped that the fullest precautions will be taken to insure the well-being of the cattle in transit. The embargo once enforced gained much support from those who thought of the sufferings of cattle in an ill- found ship on the long Atlantic voyage.
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