Evening star., 1923-09-12
BYyTHE MARauIsE DE FoxTExoY.

BYFTHE MARaUIsE DE FONTENOY.
To .conciliate Canada. Great Brit
ain has removed. her embargo on the
Importation of cattle from the Do
minion for breeding purposes. which,
naturally, has given a great boost 10
the Canadian cattle-raising industry
and a new lease of life to the trade.
Rightly or wrongly: the action OF the
English government in the matter
has been popularity attributed, on
both sides Of the Atlantic, 10 the in
fiuence of the Prince of Wales, and
1t cannot be denied that it has vastly
increased the high favor and good
will in which he is held. from one
end of Canada to the other. Her
people feel that il is not only through
his liking for them that ne. has
ehampioned their cause in this con.
nection' but also because his interests
in the matter OF farming and cattle
raising are much the same as theirs.
Although he has spent quite good
deal of money on his L. T. rancn
in A Alberta. yet it is already pay
ing proposition. He imported a lot
of prize cattle for breeding purposes
In Devonshire and elsewhere in the
west of England, for the purpose of
|. improving the breed of Canadian cat
tie and live stock, and it is certainly
not to his interest that cattle raised
on his ranch or purchased there, and
with the blood OF his pedigree cat
tie in their veins, should be barred
from the British Isles just because
they happen to have been born in
Canada.
But this concession, made by Eng
land to Canada, is meeting with all
sorts of opposition in Great Britain and
fs giving no end Of trouble to the i'm
Lperiar government The Royal Agri-
cultural Society and the department
Of agriculture, in the various admin
istrations, have, for a considerable
time past, taken the stand that there
should be absolutely no importation
of breeding stock from other parts
of the British empire, neither from
Canada nor from, the antipodes, nor yet
from British Airics; The There I'VE were sr.s =
sne was the deterr1ination to main
tain the very high standard of breed
ing of the domestic born live stock OF
the British Isles, which has given 1t
80 high value throughout the agri-
cultural world. Another was the fear
OF importing possibly latent maladies
and known and unknown defects in
the live. stock brought from King
Georges overseas dependencies.
The war furnished a striking illus@
tfation OF the extent to which the
British Isles were dependent for their
meat and their various food supplies
upon their overseas dependencies and
foreign countries and 1t was made
clear that everything should be done
to encourage live stock raising and
agriculture in the United Kingdoms.
The result was that ancestral parks
OF many Of the mobiles and territorial
fnagnates of the land. were plowed
up for the first time by their owners
ana their herds OF deer were eiaugh-
tered off in order. to convert the land
to agricultural use. Nevertheless,
British agriculture has found 1t very
difffcult, IL not impossible, to compete
with the colonial and foreign food
supply trade and has clafnored fer
protective duties, which, naturally,
having the effect of raising the price
OF bread and meat, would cause much
suffering and irritation among. the
masses The removal OF the embargo
on impoFtations of Canadian live stock
from British Africa. and from the
Akitipodes cannot But have q most
discouragiffg effect upon the agricul-
ture of the United Kingdom, and is
on this ground, and by way Of public
protest, that Lord Aiiwyn, f6r1ner