The herald., 1895-11-18
animal INDUSTRY BUREAU
Cattle Inspection and the Meat
for Export
AMERICAN DAIRY PRODUCTS
Bring Up the Rear In Price and in
Quality
The Secretary OF Agriculture Says Farming
AMERICAN DAIRY PRODUCTS
The Secretary OF Agriculture Says Farming
Pays and Predicts m Increase of
Value of Farm Lands
Associated Press Special Wire

of the secretary of agriculture begins
with the report of tho wors of che bureau
OF animal industry. The total mum Der
of animals Inspected at this slaughter
houses was considerably over $4,000, 900
and an increase of m IRE than $1,000 o
over the previous year. During tne year
ante-mortem inspection was also made of
100, 600 animals. The cost of inspection
waS reduced 10 IL cents per AMI pal. In
1898 inspection cost 4 X cents per animal
ana in 1894 it cost ~ cents. Over 1,6 0. :
0O) animals, cattle and sheep. were in
spectad for foreign markets, of which
10, 100 were shipped abroad. Over 40. co.,
QUO pounds of PORK were inspected mi
cIoscoi ic lily and exported. as against
30. 900 90 il 1874 and %, 900, 600 pounds
in 1898. Of the amour exported last
year nearly $1,000. 100 pounds want to
Germany and 9. 900, 900 pounds to France.
This inspection involved the plac ing of
over 1900, 900 specimens under the mi
croscope. The cost OF each examination
was less than cents, or tor each pound
Of meat uills, a considerable reduction
over any previous year.
Losses of cattle in transit to Europe
we're greater than in 1894, heing respect
lively for 1891 and 1885. So and .3I per
cent.
Over 80 600 cars carrying over 800, 600
an Vats we're inspected for Texas fever st
quarantine pens during tina quaranti Q
seas. s, nearly 900 carloads of Gait e
being Inspected also in transit, and over
Is, 600 cars were cleaned and disinfected.
Best les Eyer l56, 90 cattle from the nor
iniectsd districts of Texas were inspected
tor shipment to Northern states. j he
secretary urges their importation free If
duty, as advantageous to feeders having
a surplus vi feed ara to consumers who
outnum Der the pred ucers.
Mu3h space is devoted to discussing
the opportunities for IL erican prod CTS
in foreign markets. On 341 900 tons III
meat reported al the London market i'll
1894. 1l,u0l tons were American. while
ne trly 90 000 tons came from Australia.
The merican rropor ion has not been
maintained during 1925. In the imports
of live cattle to Great Britain the Unite d
States and Canada mad lricilcal mon
opuly until the last twn Years. ST. ce 1895,
Argentine shipments have greatly IN
creased. During the FIRST eight months OF
the year, the shipments amounted to over
% 0C0 head. Although thu meat OF ti e
South American rattle is not as saleab
as the Am riuan the business is protita-
Bile and likely to increase. American cat.
tie sell though, slaughtered som after
landins. at prices equal to the average
rai1 for British carcasses.
The exports of American horses to
Great Britain has increased steadily and
have more than doubled since 1893,
amounting in the first eiglt months IF
1895, to y. rs head, valued at near.y
S., 000 600. Ams lean galdines average d
this year in the English market Sl55 A
rigid inspection of horses for expOr. will
be undertaken.
The foreign trade in dairy products is
carefully reviewe /. In cheese the United
States. while large shipper to Bri ish
markets, holds spicuously unf1at.
tering place in the extreme rear as t.
quality and price, and Us the only one OF
the com pet tors for this trade whose bust.
ness shows serious falling OF.
In butter tie United States is out of the
race, supplying less than per te.it If the
British demand for foreign buffers. not
witnstandIng the fact that Great Britain
mported in eli hit months Sc, 900, 900
worth of butter.
Reisning to our standing in the for
eien dairy market, the secretary warns
shippers OF the consequences OF their
methods. adding: 1--WE have mere a
grrsphic illustrate on OF the disastrous
effects in all trade of disfegarding the
tastes of cnnsum ers and OF acquiring a
bad reputation"
The secretary says this crop reporting
work is the subject of constant criticism.
As at present organized. 1t can hardly
fail to be others Use, though more salts
factory at present than at any previous
time.
The secretary thinks the duty of re
porting the acreage of staple crops in
each state on June 1st OF each year might
be imposed ulon the authorities OF tho
agricultural colleges and stations in con-
sideration of the annual approx riatiors
they receive from the national treasury.
Such acreage be n eiven and the Charac-
Ter of tBe soil known, with the climatic
conditions published daily by the wealth
er bureau, approximations as to the yield
OF each crop could rpoahlby be com piled
with morr accuracy than under the pres
emf method.
OF the savings in the department he
says the total amount remaining unex-
pended out of tie appropriations for the
81, 800, 900 available for return Into the
treasury.
He com m ends the extension OF the civil
service, which now includes all the chiefs
of divisions in the department. He re-
CARDS an extension OF the law TO include
all non- political officers as essential to
effective service; recon- mends radical re
organization in the mi ter Oh SalBries to
conform gov rnment service to that OF
me reputal be commercial eStabl sh ments
throughout the country and condemns
the spoils system as one by which IA
voritism. injustice and dependence upon
political influence saturates the service
with mediocrity, insolence and incl
ficiency.
The report closes with discussion Of
the question of the future OF farms and
fsrnlns in the United States. The aver
age value Of farms by the census Of 1890
was $500 The value of implements, do
mestIc animals ana sund les will make
a total farm plant of $4u00 for family
averaging six persons.
Those farms have fPdathe farmers and
their fam lies and $40 600, 00J urban resi-
dents hes DIES supplying $500, 90, 900 worth
OF products of foreign consumers. In the
presence of tLe,e fcts the secretary asks:
How can anyone dare TO assert that
flaming is generally unremuneratlve and
unsatisfactory to those who intelli gently
follow it2'
The mortgage on farm values does NIT
exceed IS per cent q less incum bance on
the capital invested than in any ether
line Of industry.
He foretell. confidently a steady in
crease in the value OF I'm lands as the
population OF tho cIuntry increases.
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