Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-29
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Tho English Embargo Against Live Cat
~ tie from the United States. =,
Methods for Saving, bacon in the seuth-ship-
ments of Cattle from MOntana-Cattle
Buyers Invading Old Mexico.

Telegraphic advices show that the re-
szeipts of American cattle at English
ports are largely on the increase, fact
that goes plainly to show what could be
done if all conditions were favorable.
The English law as it now stands requires
that all cattle from American ports shall
be slaughtered Immediately on them be
ing landed in that country, under the
pretext that coming from sections where
cattle diseases prevail they are liable TO
communicate disease to English cattle if
they were permitted to be distributed
alive throughout that coun try. OF course
such a law prevents the Shipment from
America to England of feeders, or as
they are termed there, "store cattle, -
although the farming classes are clamor-
Gus for relaxation of the law in this re-
spect.
AS the business is now conducted there
is no certainty about the prices to be OBJ
tanned in England for American beef
cattle, for no matter how many land at
any port during one day they have to be
slaughtered Immediately, whether the
market demands that much beef or not,
and it has been said that as a result of
this, large quantities of meat has spoiled
before it could be disposed of. Prices,
however, are still good in England, for
the reason that the country has to draw
largely on other countries for Its meat
supply, but If some system could be put
10 work by which American store cat
tie, - or feeders, could be shipped into
England and then sold to parties in
the feeding business, there would
be more regularity in prices
and q market for our" cattle woulGs be
opened up that would be of inoalcuieble
benefit TO the livestock industry here's,
1t is commended by men well poste6in
this matter that the action of the English
government IN placing the embargo on,
American cattle that is now on them is
entirely unnecessary from sanitary
standpoint, but that it is enforced sims
ply as protection Of privileged class
in that country who are engaged in the
cattle business, and whose business
would be materially cut down if Yankee
cattle were allowed in England. In fact
the English embargo is simply ''protec-
tive tariff. -
1t has been suggested however if the
United States government would have en-
acted law passed that would prevent
the moving of cattle from any district in
the United States when any contagious
cattle disease prevails, to other sections
where it does not exist, until such dis
ease had entirely disappeared, the objeo-
lions of England to American cattle.
would soon be done away with, as cattle
could then be shipped from the different
parts of this country with clear bill of
health attached. This plan of combining
cattle to districts until all signs of disease
disappeared from these districts could no
doubt be carried out, and there is no
doubt that good would result from it even
in our own country, but as long as cattle
are permitted to go from a pleuro in
fected district to healthy one,
and cattle from that district
to another one. and so on ad infinitum'
pleuro- pneumonia will prevail in Amer
lea and will be urged by foreign coun-
tries as a reason for inhibiting the i'm
portation of our cattle to their territory.
The Same remarks will apply to splenio
fevers as well as the disease referred to.
In other countries such sanitary laws as
the one suggested have been in force for
years and have been found to work well.