The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-17

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Boiled seed are more paletable then
raw seed, less Laxative and make fast
er gains. May continue to be used
with profit.
Steers fed on raw seed, eating less
quantity of seed, ate slightly more hay
In consequence.
Cotton seed at usual prices, is good
and cheap addition to corn AID hay
ration.
The best beef ration found by previ-
Gus experimentation seed, meal,
bulls and eilage is noG her proven the
best, when calculated at former prices
raw seed, corn and hay being better.
(5ee table 8. page 32O)
When value of raw seed is raised to
near market present prices, SO per ton,
the meal, hulls and silRSa is again the
best ration (see bulletin 10, page % }
Raw seed, corn and hay being next
best.
The average cost of gain per pound
in all lots at present price of food was
8 "a cents.
The cheapest seed per pound gained
for all steers fed, when raw cotton seed
is valued as $40 per ton, was raw seed,
corn and hay.
MEAT INSPECTION.
This is the subject of bulletin 81, of
Alabama station, a pamphlet OF some
66 pages illustrated by charts showing
the appearance of some parasites that
infest the flesh of animals and the ap
pearRnce of diseased meats, of various
kinds.
Since the discovery of the bacterial
origin of many, if not all diseases, it ia1
known that many parasitic and bRcte- ]
rial diseases are common to man and
his domestic animals, and that such
awful mRlsdies as consumption, gland
ers and anthrax, or charbon, may be
communicated to man by his animals,
or vice versa. And even in case the
disease is not communicable to man,
the flesh Of an animal which has-hog
cholera for instance, is not considegsd'
wholesome, and it is certainly not ap
petizing food.
The above considerations, taken in
connection with the fact that many of
these diseases are more or less wide
spread and that the fash Of animals SO
afflicted may be knowingly offered for
sale by uuscrupulous persons, or un
willingly offered by those who did not
know that the slaughtered animal was
diseased, call for the systematic and
scientific inspection Of all meats offer.
ed to the public, more especially in the
cities and larger towns. Meat inspec
tion is entitled to place along side Of
quarantine regulations. as means Of
preventing the spread of diseases.
Meat inspection will not only cut off
one way of spreading the germs of dis
ease among men, but it will eliminate
from his food many of the poisonous
chemical compounds that develop in
the bodies Of dise esed animals. These
compounds are known to scientists as
ptomaines, leucomainee, and organic
ferments and many of them are very
poisonous and they cannot always be
destroyed by cooking, as can the germs
OF disease. For instaEce, In the disease
known as lockjaw, the disease germ
called tetanus bacillus in some way
produces chemical substance called
tetanin which is such a powerful poison
that a very small quantity injected
into the veins of a horse or a man will
produce death in a short time.
The writer OF the bulletin states that
in a prominent city OF the United
States he saw the meat inspector sit
ting in g chair, scrut1nizing the live
animals as they passed in, and found
that he gave the butcher certificate
of health without making any inspec-
tion OF the internal organs at the time
Of slaughter or any microscopic exam
ination of the carc8sses after slaughter
OF course such inspection is little bet
ter than no inspection. Beyond detect.
ing lump jaw, and few maladies hav-
Ing visible exterior symptoms, it ia of
no value.
The city of Montgomery Gala ia
said to have the most perfect meat in
spec5ion law of any city in the Union,
and this bulletin gives thatla in full,
together with directions for detecting
the presence of such diseases as hog
cholera, swine plague, anthrax. rabies,
epizootic catarrh, blood poison, mango,
Inflammation, Texas fever, tuoerca-
losis, cancer, Gumor, etc.
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