UNSATISFACTORY TUBERCULIN TEST

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 30, 30 October 1918, Page 8

UNSATISFACTORY TUBERCULIN TEST

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- yleas'ant -frfr the i untortunaac importer '"({says the '"Live'Stocjc JournAl")—w»hear , : of Cattle wliich ■have passed au excellent England 1 reacting' in : South Africa, and: being destroyed witnout iiiy coinpen- < isation being paid. the postfaurtem examination fails tcrreyeal ;disf,'.'case, in which case South African !• Government pays\a maximum'of £100-as f wluphj with'shipping, inj enrarice, andquarantine expenses, now j>. untouiting to about - 'j685, ••'eayes : the im-: }' .'porter who, has.in s^ch'-a'; case paid for ( ito proved- healthy" anixual'; with a heavy |- 'Ipss'ia'nd:thol wild.the poorer of :a toe. pedigree "KnimaL'whijsß progeny,.. 'Would jia\o enriched South.: African herds may: j"le-for.'generations.-;■ ,"v . " j. ■- . Exporters to and importers.in: o'ur own I' ;dominions' are thus''placed- in a' worse I position than those in a foreign, though, ■ - happily aif Allied nation, ;viz., TJn.ted ' States of America—wjlich has adopted a ': plan ejninently safe to itself- and fair to ' all! concerned, ofhayii-e its own official i veterinary surgeon resident in England '[.. 'and allowing no cattle into its country j. unless tested and certified by him,- acK' cepting his word as to that test as final. S . South African brqeders, especially those who have already suffered loss in this • i way; not unnaturally refuse'to ri» any i more risks, and to that exteut their coun- ••• try is deprived' of a future source of ; wealth and the breeders of (his country j. .'of an outlet for : stock bred at so much j Expense for the.export trade." ■