BRITAIN SEARCHES FOR BEST METHOD TO REMOVE COWS.

Byline: Associated Press 

It's one thing to agree to destroy millions of cattle, but quite another to do it.

Agriculture Minister Douglas Hogg told lawmakers that the government did not know how it was going to dispose of the carcasses when it agreed Wednesday to destroy all cattle more than 30 months old.

Hogg estimated the cost of the project at $830 million a year.

The National Farmers Union estimated that the project could involve up to 15,000 carcasses a week, most of them dairy cattle at the end of their milk cycles. But the Ministry of Agriculture said Britain's nine incinerators can handle only about 1,000 carcasses in a 40-hour week.

Sir David Naish, president of the National Farmers Union, believes the disposal could be organized quickly.

``All the meat that could not be burnt straightaway could be temporarily stored,'' he said.