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Excerpt from Agricultural Gazette of Canada, Vol. 8: September-October, 1921 In presenting the case for Canada before the Royal Commission of Inquiry on the Cattle Embargo it is desired to express appreciation for this and other opportunities of urging, on behalf of the Government of Canada, redress of what the Dominion believes is an injustice. For many years the Government of Canada has protested against the maintenance of this embargo. Until the cattle embargo was enforced Canadians enjoyed the privilege of shipping store cattle to Great Britain. Shipments were prohibited, however, after the imposition of the embargo, on the assumption that contagious pleuro-pneumonia had been discovered in a consignment of Canadian cattle landed in Great Britain. At that time the diagnosis of the British official veterinarians was stoutly denied by Canadians and also by prominent British Veterinarians, and the fact that not a single case of contagious pleuro-pneumonia has occurred in Canada, at that time or later, is an indication that the diagnosis made by the official veterinarians was incorrect, and that a grave injustice was done to the cattle breeders of Canada. Canada, at the present time, claims that her herds of cattle are as free from disease as are those of any country in the world. As disease possibilities from Canadian cattle, imported into Great Britain, have been so freely discussed of late, it will be in order to give a brief outline of the organization responsible for the health of Canadian live stock. The Health of Animals Branch of the Dominion Department of Agriculture consists of a Veterinary Director General, who has charge of the work of the Branch, assisted by an Assistant Veterinary Director General and an adequate staff of qualified Veterinary Inspectors, and these inspectors must be graduates of an approved veterinary college and, in addition, must pass a qualifying examination before being accepted to carry on the work of the branch. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.