UNSATISFACTORY TUBERCULIN TEST

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 29, 29 October 1918, Page 8

UNSATISFACTORY TUBERCULIN TEST

I AMERICA'S BETTER SCHEME. time to tiine— and oftener than is asant for tlie . unfortunate importer ys the "Live Stock Journal , ')—we hear ic'attle which- , have'-'passed an excellent t in'.England reactiiig'in Soutli Africa i beinjj destroyed without tny conipeniou being paid. Occasionally the post-. Mem examination fails to reveal dis- .%,.'. in which case the South African yernment pays a maximum of JfilOO.as' iipensation, -which,. with shipping,. in•ari'ce, and "quarantine espouses, iJiow,' hunting to ■.about' -.£BS, leaves the-im-:ter>who ha'tf;in.'Sjich a'wise paid for proved healthy;.; animal with. a heavy S and tho \wldvthe Roofer of ,'a ; fine ligree aniniainwhoseprogeny/jwould .•e enriched- Soutli -African:.' herds mayj- for; generations. "/ • ;;- ; -/' kpprters to and importers in.our own minions are thus placed in a, worse Sition. than .those in a foreign, though ppily an Allied nation,' viz., United (tes.of America—which has adopted a in eminently' safe to itself and fair to j concerned, of h'avir. a ' its own official :erinary surgeon resident in England 1 allowing no cattle into its country less 'tested and certified by him, aciting his -word as to that testes filial. ■ ; outh African breeders, especially those p have' already suffered, loss in this y,. not unnaturally refuse to. rum any re risks, and to that extent ■their coun-

I is; deprived of a-future , source, of. jilth and the breeders of Ihis' country .an outlet- for .etock bred at so much. )ense for the exp'ort_trade. ;