SLAUGHTER OF CATTLE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19265, 2 March 1926, Page 10

SLAUGHTER OF CATTLE.

WAR ON TUBERCULOSIS. BIG DRIVE IN CANADA. [from our own correspondent.] VANCOUVER, Feb. 10. A nation-wide slaughter of cattle in Canada •to " weed out those affected by tuberculosis, : . will be commenced next week. British Columbia will be the first province treated. Other provinces will be dealt with .in geographical turn. Federal experts, arriving to undertake this work, say it is expected that British Columbia will be completed by the spring.

Fraser Valley, the chief dairying district of British Columbia, and one of the most prolific in Canada, has been declared an anti-tuberculosis district by the Federal Government, at the instance of the provincial Minister of Agriculture. Drastic regulations have been framed, to make the " drive " effective. No cattle may be brought into the district during the .currency of the "declaration," All cattle will be tested twice a month, and, if found affected, will be slaughtered. Compensation' to farmers for loss of animals •is provided by Federal Statute. While the process of testing is proceeding, farmers will not be permitted to move their cattle from tested holdings to land .where cattle have 3iot been tested. This polity will, it in jstated, be rigorously observed right across the country..