Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-29
ROUND-UPS.
80. Britain Short Oh Cattle and Breed
O' erc Want American Feeders.
no,,,rerators Could do for the Cattle
WEB , - to Be Followed
IN Selecting Breeders

1, n growing demand in Great
-, for American cattle for feeders,
D'''+ 1s, government is firm in its refusal
W. ovs the embargo against the i'm
F" ' ,..,o, NJ such cattle from the United
PO' and still insists that all cattle so
ca .-,.s shall be slaughtered immedi-
iu'p ,o IN being landed. Scotland psrtio-
S. 1. agitating the removal OF the
ulaliI - and leading English papers are
emUniH ~ interest in the matter that
iahlHt ,rantually lead to good results.
ma! london Daily Chronicle on this sub
!seI ,T my can be no doubt that there is
- growing feeling of unrest and
l jus. ~" in the meat and cattle trades,
0p 11vcsd psrtly by Mr.. Chaplin's legis-
p,Ia nroposals, by recent judicial de-
iAI, ,,1. in scotland, fixing responsibility
eIsi. .so sale of ment tainted with tuber-
u, u, and BY the dread of breeders lest
ou s,ssb importation of pleuro- pneumonia
"a he brought over from the United
r,..o, at the very time we are about to
- great sacrifices for stamping out
ms1 si.sose According to report of the
Iuo u.hIv meeting of the council of the
NJ Agricultural society, that body
I..asts Indignantly against the proposed
r,,o,aton of existing regulations, which
5",,,ct cattle imports from America
-i,hon, baing subject to slaughter. 1t
- m IA that the controversy Is one
t.,waen different groups of farmers,
.s.bsr than between the farmers and the
..,,nmers. The breeders in north and
vo-thesSt Scotland are eager to get store
ao,tls for business purposes, and they
have been pressing Mr.. Chaplin for some
,ims 10 let them come in freely from
Irsrica. But as disease can be intro
dnrsd by store as we'll as by fat cattle,
che arguments against the introduction
1.-THE latter hold equally as good against
tho introduction of the former also. The
ouastiop ls, however, one of fact. Is
,bors enough pleuro- pneumonia In
America to Justify US in shutting out her
e,,orts OF 1--we cattle? Everybody ad-
nit. II seems, that the Eastern states
are f.ll OF pleuro- pneumonia. eve know
nj no one VINO makes such admission
Ed.D.JD But what is asserted is that
the Western states are free from it, and
therefore store cattle from these states
might be admitted to our ports without
being slaughtered on arrival. 1t is 10 be
regretted that Mr.. Chaplin does not con-
,der It practicable to inquire into the
facts so as TO ascertain precisely the eX-
tent TO which pleuro-pneumonta exists in
Western America. The only official
data available are figures which are two
years old, and though they indicate that
The pestilence was rife around Chicago,
It may have disappeared since then.
The real difficulty is to ascertain whether
II is possible, assuming that Western
cattle are really healthy, to bring them
TO the Atlantic seabosrd through in
fected areas withou: risk of infection.
They might carry the germ of the dis
ease with them on board ship, and there
they would take root and multiply
because the close confinement and
bad air produce the low tone
Of vitality in which the power
OF the animals tissues to resist the
roofing Of these germs is reduced to zero.
Some persons have suggested that West
ern cattle might be sent down to Texas
aud shipped from Galveston. This seems
practicable enough, and if II would tend
10 increase and cheaper our food supply,
the success Of such q scheme would be
welcomed BY the English consumers and
stock farmers. The argument that in
time the impetus given to the movement
Of cattle for shipment at Galveston would
soon deprive Texas of her present immu-
nifty is one which concerns Texans, not
rs. When we find that disease exists in
Texas We can refuse to admit cattle ex-
ported By that state. Till then we shall
be making an unnecessary sRcrifl5e by
opposing relaxatious which would rem
der shipments from GalvestonF or any
other untainted district in Amefica poszs
sble. -
The truth is that up till now our efncial
methods Of combating cattle disease have
been as costly as they have been unsatis-s
factory. Vast sums of money, Mr.. Chap
lln himself admits, have been spent in
slsuEhtering cattle at the expense of the
ratepayers, and yet cattle disease has not
been got rid Of. In dealing with 1t, as in
dealing with rabies, we fail because we
20 not secure unity of action and purpose
Oil over the country in the administration
OF preventive measures. And yet, just
rs the Scandinavlans have shown that
rabies, and consequently hydrophobia,
can be stamped out, so the Dutch have
SHOWN US that pleuro-pneumonia can also
De extlrpated. The Dutch cure wasstEec
poleaIe aud the destruction of averyshing
mat had been brought in contact with
lhe slaughtered cattle-but theFremedy
"" applied all round and with a.
lloroushuess not yet dresmt Of u S5n-
gland. "