§ MR. ROBINSON (Brecknock)To ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, if he is aware that manure from the sheds at Avonmouth where the Canadian cattle are housed on landing, is railed away to different parts of the country; and, seeing that this practice is calculated to counteract the value of the restrictive regulations in force with regard to the importation of live cattle, whether the Board will put a stop to the practice.
(Answered by Sir Edward Strachey.) Manure is not allowed under any circumstances to be removed from a foreign animals wharf until all the animals carried in the vessel from which it is taken have been passed as healthy, and until it has been disinfected to the satisaction of an inspector of the Board. If the inspector considers that the manure may introduce disease it would be destroyed or otherwise dealt with in accordance with instructions given by the Board. We see no necessity for any amendment of the orders on the subject.