§ Mr. CHARLES BATHURSTasked whether, in reply to the inquiries now being addressed by the Board of Agriculture to stock owners in reference to tuberculosis, the results of annual or other periodical tests with tuberculin of pedigree herds will be deemed to afford any useful information?
§ Mr. RUNCIMANYes. We should be glad to receive such information.
§ Mr. C. BATHURSTasked the President of the Board of Agriculture whether it is his intention, in addressing his present inquiries to owners of cattle on the subject of tests for the elimination of tuberculosis from their herds, to make a rough census of tuberculous cattle throughout the country; and, if so, whether such census is deemed likely to prove a reliable guide to the Board as regards legislation or administration in reference to this disease?
§ Mr. RUNCIMANThe sole object of the inquiry is to obtain information as to the results of experiments undertaken by stock breeders and others. It could not possibly form the basis of anything in the nature of a census of tuberculous cattle.