Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-05-26

as the hog inspection and microscopical
examination is concerned, for instance,
that only applies to about per cent. of
the pork got ready for the market by
these firms, for that Is the percentage of
their export trade when compared with
the whole volume of the business done
by them. From all this it will be seen
that up to this writing the field of USE
fulness covered by the bureau of animal
inspection is still very limited, and that
IL will need very much larger sums to
accomplish what the law purposed TO ac-
complish, viz, thorough examination of
all cattle, sheep and hogs-alive and
as arcasses-intended both for inter-
state commerce and export. However,
with all these shortcomings, 1t would
seem that vast amount OF earnest and
profitable work If even now being done
by this bureau.
inspection OF Beef.
The four houses whose export cattle
are inspected are Armour, Morris,
Swift, and Z. e. Wells. Together they
often kill from $4,000 to 100,0 900 head of
cattle in a week. In each of their
slaughter-housesi is graduated veter-
marian posted on the part of the Fed
eral Government to attend to the post
norton inspection and to pass judg-
ment on the wholesomeness OF the
meat. There are four such veterina-
rians in Swift's slaughter houses, two
in Armour's, and one each in Nelson
Morris and in L. E. Wells. These
men are required TO be present each
day during the time of killing, which
lasts sometimes from in the morning
until 10 at night, but usually from Z
till g. This veterinary inspector has
one or more assistant inspectors work
ing under him. These assistants are
men who haze become familiar with the
normal and abnormal appearance of
meat, and are quick to recognize any
deviation from the healthy state. Then
there Is in each slaughter-h a
corps of taggers and foreman direct
ing them. To each quarter of beef
that has been officially approved as
sound and wholesome meat a tag-as
specifically prescribed in Secretary
Rusk's regulations-is securely affixed,
and these tags run in serial numbers
end letters, SO that each new chunk of
beef bears new ones.
The examinations made by the in
spectors extend to the whole viscera,
4. en- the cavity OF the chest, stomach,
intestines, setc., .cand Is supposed to be
very thorough, yet in the nature Of
things it,must he very rapid. Another
form of cattle Inspection is that made
by force'of expert veterinarians of the
live stock intended for export. The
busiest season Of this kind OF trade is
during the winters up to about the mid
die of April The number thus inspected
by the government officials averages
about 5000 head of cattle per week,
though occasionally the number runs
much higher, and the largest number so
far Inspected on single day was 5000.
There are quite q number OF firms en-
gagged in this business o. live exporta-
tons, too many to enunerate them here.
The manner OF inspecting live stock
differs, of course, radically froia the
post-mortem inspection, the latter being
by all odds the more thorough and pains
taking one The sound or unsound con-
dition of the animals Is determined by
their general appearance, the expert eye
of the Inspector readily catching any
outward sign OF disease.
In y Remarkable Healthy state.
Carcasses, however, that have been
condemned by the veterinary inspectors
In the slaughter-houses as unfit for hui