IMPORTATION OF CATTLE FROM UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3, 20 March 1928, Page 222

IMPORTATION OF CATTLE FROM UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

The. following regulations under the Stock Act were gazetted on 16th February, 1928, and came into force on that date : 1. Subject to the provisions of the principal regulations (gazetted 4th October, 1915), and to the following conditions, cattle may be introduced into New Zealand from the United States of America. 2. Every person desiring to introduce cattle as aforesaid must first obtain a permit to do so from the Minister of Agriculture. 3. Such cattle on arrival in New Zealand shall undergo quarantine at a quarantine ground for sixty days, and after liberation from the quarantine ground shall be subject to quarantine surveillance for such time as the Director may direct. 4. Every shipment of cattle must be accompanied by a statutory declaration, in the form No. 1 of the Schedule, made by the shipper of such cattle, setting forth the kind, number, sex, and brands or marks of such cattle, and declaring that all such cattle have been bred or domiciled throughout in a State where Texas fever does not exist, and never has existed ; that they are at the time of shipment, and have been during the preceding six months, free from all infectious and contagious diseases ; that they have not during the six months immediately preceding shipment been in direct or indirect contact with any stock infected with any such disease, and that the regulations of the United States Department, of Agriculture (Bureau of Animal Industry) governing the inter-State movement of animals have been duly complied with. . . 5. On every such declaration there shall be inscribed a certificate, in the form No. 2 of the Schedule, signed by a Veterinary Officer of the Bureau of Animal Industry, certifying that he has,. within the fourteen days immediately preceding the date of shipment to'New Zealand, examined and tested with the tuberculin test such cattle and has found them free from infectious and contagious diseases. Particulars with respect to such test, showing dosages and temperature records shall be supplied with such certificate. The schedules may be seen in the Gazette. .

Improvement in Meat-product Processes., — Recent local work in this field was referred to by the Acting-Chairman of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, at its February meeting, as follows : “As the result of investigations, new processes have been elaborated whereby certain products of meat-works which, on account of excessive salinity, were. useless can now be saved and utilized for the manufacture of pig and poultry feeds. The new process, which involves the use of sodium nitrate, makes possible very considerable saving in time, the preparation of a standardized product, and eliminates the waste which hitherto prevailed. Details of the dry-rendering-of-meat process have also been elaborated, and this may make a considerable advance in the meat industry. At present the question of an alternative preservative process .to replace T the boric preservative hitherto used in bacon-curing is receiving attention.”