§ MR. R. HARCOURT (Montrose Burghs)I beg to ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Hoard of Agriculture, what States in the United States are now scheduled as infected with foot-and-mouth disease; and whether the port of Boston is still free.
§ THE TREASURER OF THE HOUSEHOLD (Sir EDWARD STRACHEY, Somersetshire, S.)Foot-and-mouth disease has been declared to exist in the States of Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland and Michigan, and regulations have been 469 made by the Federal Government prohibiting the movement of cattle from those States. The orders of the Board prohibit the importation of animals from the States of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware. Boston is still a free port.
AN HON. MEMBERWill the Board adopt in Europe the same system as prevails in the United States and schedule the States separately?
§ SIR EDWARD STRACHEYI explained the other day that the conditions in Europe and America were entirely different.