, 1884-08-14
WYOMING AND ENGLAND.
An Interesting Live Stock Interview
With Mr.. Moreton Frewen.
Probable Withdrawal Of Restric-
ions Against Wyoming Cattle.
Shipments to Canada and Other
Stock Notes New To-Day.

Shortly after his arrival he was waited
upon by a reporter Of The LEADER, who
asked him regarding the success of his
mission to England. and at the same time
to kindly give an outline ofthe subject.
The issue is this" said Mr.. Frewer.
by the contagious diseases act of 1878,
powers were relegated to the British Privy
Council to prohibit the importation of live
stock from any country where disease ex-
listed; thus when there was an outbreak of
pleuro pneumonia in 1878 in the State of
New York, the entire area Of the United
States was scheduled" By a new act
Of this session, however, extended powers
are given to the Privy Council and they
may now admit cattle from one specified
part of a country while continuing the
embargo on the whole, and il was to OBJ
tain the release of Wyoming from the re-
strictions affecting the rest of America
that l recently crossed the water, commits
stoned by the Territory and also by the
Stock Association to represent their inter
ests.
I'm the event of the restriction being
withdrawn, do you consider that England
would be a better market for our produce
than Chicago the reporter inquired.
That is a matter of figures. Feeders
are now-oving to a failure of the Eng
lish root crop-cheaper than they have
been known for some years, and yet they
arc selling freely at nearly ten cents a
pound live weight, all over England and
Scotland; we can send our steers to Chi
cago, Sarnia and Montreal to Liverpool
for little over two cents per pound; in
GLIDING insurance. handling and feed. less
than three cents, SO you see unless prices
in England broke badly we should be net
ting, instead of as at present some three
and a half cents for our steers, nearer
seven cents"
Under such immense shipments as
would result from such high prices would
the English market be likely 20 break p
NO doubt it would 10 some extent, but
the opinion Of those in England who are
best qualified 10 judge, is that any such
price as half a crown per stone THAT is
seven and a half cents, or say FIVE cents
net on our ranges), England would gladly
draw at least five million head of stock,
and that under such new conditions Il re-
turn of agricultural prosperity in England
would at c result The extreme mild
ness of the English climate makes fatten-
ing cattle a very cheap process; yoR may
infer how cheap from the fact that Eng
lish farmers can ~fatten, and even to profit,
although they pay more per stone for tho
lean steer than they receive per stone for
the same animal fattened;s if you suggest
ed to an Iowa farmer to fatten under such
conditions he would think you crazy. If
the Iowa farmer gives US four cents for
feeders he expects to get six cents for the
fat beast. The English farmer, on the
other hand, is content to buy the lean
animal at three shillings and ~eightpence
per stone and to sell with the increased
weight at three and four pence"
You think then the opening up of
this trade wuuld be a great boon to the
English farmer2n
There can be no question about it.
The English and Scottish farmers were
allowed to buy freely from Canada last
year, and although they bought some
$4,000 head ut prices that would appear
to us enormous, they yet made a good
living profit on these transactions, What
then could they not do with our cheap
beasts? AT present in place of a trade in
live animals whereby they could fatten
and secure a good profit, these same
ridiculous restrictions have driven Eng
land deeply into a dead meat trade. Nut
ton from the antipodes; dressed beef from
Chicago; masses of bacon from this
country are being attracted TO England.
and leaving all manure in the country
from which the dead animals is sent, this
dead meat trade is starving the soil, and
underselling the English farmer. Instead
Of this if their farmers were allowed TO
draw freely from all this Western country,
lean store cattle and dairy stock, they
could fatten so cheaply that they could
undersell the entire dead meat trade ut a
profit to themselves and their land, and
to our great profit here"
what is the prospect Of SUGGEST"
II believe success is is assured, as the
project ia one that recommends itself
equally to the farmer and the whole body
of consumers. OF course the Irish mem
bers Of Parliament are fighting ii all they
can, because ireland has now almost a
monopoly of the trade in store cattle.
That one small island is sending England
nearly half a million head a year.
But in this case the advantages that
must accrue to England and Scotland are
30 great that they will not be debarred by
Irish opposition. Bear in mind that the
only objection to our sending cattle now
is that pleuro pneumonia il believed to
exist in some Of the States of the Eastern
Seaboard. 1t is known that this disease
has never crossed the Aileghenies during
the forty years of its life on this CONT
nept In ireland, on the other hand,
from which England is importing freely,
twenty-five distinct cases of this disease
were officially announced the week before
last. .r r.l
"What is the present position Of the
Privy Council2"
THE Privy Council are nov negotiating
in this matter with Canada. AS we pro-
pose cattle shall be shipped from here via