Foot-and-Mouth Disease—Importation of Foreign Forage.

HC Deb 04 March 1908 vol 185 c666

MR. FIELD

To ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, whether in view of the fact that the foot-and-mouth disease was introduced into Scotland through the medium of imported foreign forage, he will, in conjunction with the Vice-President of the Department of Agriculture (Ireland), arrange to prohibit the importation of any foreign forage from countries where there is not a clean bill of animal health into any part of the three kingdoms.

(Answered by Sir Edward Strachey.) The Answer is in the affirmative.