ENGLAND'S MEAT SUPPLY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 638, 15 October 1909, Page 7

ENGLAND'S MEAT SUPPLY.

1,.■.'.. ■■;■ -"UNSATISFACTORY.? "'. "■'■''. V : . RESTRICTIONS ON ; liIPORTATION. '. (By ■ ■■ Asiocl'atlon-Oopyrigh^)" ■: ... "■'./. •.,■"■ London/.October 13. A conference" of representatives'of London Borough Councils resolved that the meat supply of the metropolis is unsatisfactory; and has asked the Government to • relax' tho restrictions upon* the importation of cattle'for immediate slaughter. ■-.. ■ ■ ; '■ :t .■■ - •'.; >.. :■ : EMBARGO/ON CANADIAN CATTLE. agitation for the removal of.the embargo oiv the importation of Canadian live cattle"has m Bcarcit y of supplies have become more and more self-evident. ,In the •S!! ,r ? e . " a .recent deputation to'tho Primn Minister. Mr. Asquith)' and he Prudent of • the Board of Agr culture (Lord CaSon LwTiich showed.a rise in tho price of- moat of rA-JvtSt" I .^. I, ' ou ? 'night go throughCanada without, discovering any trace of .foot-and-mouth disease, but it could not beX Prnm tin*VV h ° Stn,es dl ' Mase from time to time made its appearance, with most disustnus- results, and 'one. could not P»''C«nadß.and the -..Unite* States inb h?o water-tight compartments. The lone and loosely guarded-.boundary and the easy-goiSg 'if ?g n for C ff tom » made tlle Board of Agricnlture unable to treat the' fact that df« i n • "V"?/ Pven; moment free from diseasA as in itself an adenuate security. If the farming community i,,'the country were polled they would bo in favourof the «iist">f.«stncW by an everwhelming'm a joritv cattle imported was 105,000, and < the va ue In the years from 1906 to 1908 he The consumer was real y wttins a larger proportion ; of. the moat■ suppKf from colomal and foreign sources : than P ten yeaS ■_Jfr. • Ascjntth added that he! regretted, the Government could not recedo from the Dblcv so long.pursuod, because as a .very strong I ■«- K r hS a -S^ m - »osta y dver™ g to any form of restriction on importation.'