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OUR HOGS.
Protest From Cincinnati and Indianapolis
Against False Reports About Hog Dis
eases---An English Protest Exposure of
the Alarm About Trichinosis.

Against False Reports About Hog Dis
eases---An English Protest Exposure of
the Alarm About Trichinosis.
INDIANAPOLIS, March 5.-The Board Of
Trade to-day adopted resolutions declar-
ing that there is not the slightest danger
from the use of hog products as foodsand
denouncing the false reports propagated
throughout Europe about American hogs.
CINCINNATI, March 5.-Prcsident
Urner, having received dispatch from
T. Parker, president Of the New York
Produce Exchange, to the effect that the
British consul at Philadelphia had sent
statement to England that 100000 hogs
had died in Ohio of cholera, and similar
dispatches having been received by other
persons from New York, Chicago, In
dianapolis and other places, the chamber
was convened and the following resolu-
ton unanimously adopted and ordered
sent to Sir Edward Thornton, the British
minister at Washington, and to Senators
Pendleton and Sherman:
WHEREAS, 1t is currently reported that
the British consul at Philadelp hia has
sent a dispatch to England, completely
false in character, to the effect that seven
hundred thousand Ohio hogs have died
from cholera, therefore,
Resolved, That the Cincinnati chamber
of commerce hereby give to the repre-
sentatives of Great Britain in this coun-
try, the most positive assurance that the
hogs of Ohio and of the whole west, have
been, during the past year, ,singularly free
from disease of all kinds, and to respect
fully ask the members of the legation to
take such action as will Immediately cor
calculated to inf1ict great injury on the
provision trade Of the United States and
Great Britain, and which have doubtless
had their sole origin in mercenary mo-
tives
NEW YORK, March Especial cable
from London: The Newcastle daily
Chronicle says: Granting that the disor-
der known as trichinosis exists, the next
most important inquiry is as to it's preva-
lence, and about this we have no hesita-
tion in saying there has been recently no
end Of eXaggeration. The only alleged
instance ofits appearance in England is
still matter of dispute, and like I'M
trustworthiness hangs by the reports COM
ing from most other countries where the
importation of foreign pork is now being
prohibited.
How foolish the outcry is, as far as this
country is concerned, may be gathered
from the fact that America sends annu-
ally to England some 700, 100000 pounds
weight of hog products, following next
to cotton, the most extensive import
trade of Liverpool, and yet not single
case Of death from trichinosis has ever
been proved to have occurred in Great
Britain.
CHICAGO, March 5.--The board of
trade to-day adopted the following:
WHEREAS, It is reported that official repre-
sentatives of foreign governments in this
country have intimated that disease in swine
prevails in this country, and especially in
Illinois, to an alarming extent, which reports
have tended to greatly demoralize the trade in
hog products; and
WHEREAS, All reliable reports, official
and otherwise, tend to prove that dis
eases of swine prevail to a very
much less extent at the present time, and for
the past year than in previous years, and has
never been of character to justify alarm or
uneasiness in respect to the meats that are
packed for human consumption, great care
having always been had TO exclude from such
uses any animals that are in any degree in
fected with disease; therefore
Resolred, That in the judgment of the di-
rectOrs of the board of trade of Chicago there
are no grounds for any apprehension as to the
healthfulness of hog products packed in this
country, whether for home consumption OF
export, and they emphatically deny that there
is or has been any recent increase in the dis
eases to which all swine are more or less sub.
ect, and affirm that never in the history of the
trade was the product of our meat packing es-
tablishments of so high or healthful charac-
ter as at the present time.
ST. LOUIS, Mo, March 5-The Leynau-
rett Bros, of Bordeaux, France, writing
to W. T. BARLEY, provision broker OF
this city, advised him to withhold ship
ments fifteen days, by which time all re-
strietions they think will be removed
The French government took forty-six
cases of long clear sides, which were
shipped to Havre from Keokuk, Ia, and
these are being subjected to most scru-
tinizing inspection by eight experts.
Upon the results Of this examination de-
pends the immediate future of American
trade with France, and as it has peen as
certained that this meat left Keokuk in
splendid condition, the packers are very
sanguine.
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