Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-02-23

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the department has been sonding out
high heredisy sorghum seed to those
States iu ordor that the farmer
might make his own sugar If he de-
sired, or that capitalists might in.
vest in sugar making, which is en-
tirely practicable. or that feeders
might have oorbonaceous nutriments
to add to the heterogeneous cotton
seed ratien.
NO CHEMICALS IN MEAT.
The Bureau Of Animal Industry is
growing in usefulness. A thousand
men and women connected with the
bureau study the meats of the United
States and: examine everything for
Interstate and foreign commerce on
the foot and also after slaughter.
Our inspectors are present at all
times from tho introduction of the
animal to the slaughter house to its
exit from home to foreign markets.
You have doubtless heard the sound
of conflict over meats, pro and con !;
alleged statements of the use of
chemicals in canned meats, refrige-
rated meats and all that, and you are
probably in the dark regarding tho
truth of it all. We have regular re-
ports from all the packing housea in
the country.
Since this agitation over chemical
ly prepared meats has been current,
the department, considering it its
duty to stand between the meat pro-
ducers and the consumers of tho
country, has been making, and is
still making, careful chemical ex-
animation Of all the meats of COM
merce to ascertain whether there has
been any practice of this kind dele
terious to the health of the public in
general and the army in particular,
80 that when the commotion you
now hear has subsidized and the for
eign governments that may be more
or less hostile to the meats of the
United States, point to tho contro-
versy here as indicating conditions
that warrent them in the enactment
of hostile legislation, we may be
able to present tho truth and show
to the world whether the meats
originating on our farms and going
through the packing houses, are or
arc not dootored with chemicals to
tho injury of the consumer. We
have examined the canned meats of
commerce, and find that nine of the
statements regarding them are true.
We find that canned meat, when
properly taken care of, 10 an indis-
penaable artirfa Of commerce. We
have not been able in any case to
find chemicals, although our investi-
cations have covered all the brands
CT meat sold iii tho opon market that
We oan hear of. We have also ina:
gurated extensive Investigations into
tho character of our refrigerator
meats, and utterly failed to find, as
far as we have gone, any evidence
whatever of the use of chemicals.
THE ~erk will bo continued until
every doubt ia removed. If we find
anybody who handles the farmers
produce has been resorting to the
use of chemicals which may destroy
tho health of our people ourinhuence
will 60 to their swift and speedy
punishment, and it we find that the
statement by men who have made no
Investigations themselves and have
had none made for them, are untrue,
wo shall say so through the pablioa-
tions of the department of tho peo-
p.e, and we will have those publioa-
fions translated into all the languages
of Europe and spread broadcast in
those countries, let them strike whom
they may.
MORE ATTENTION TO snEEP.
The sheep industry in the United
States Ia getting much more atten-
tion than it has had, and is much
more profitable. Enough oarly
apring lambs are not raised to sup
ply our Northern markets. The pub
lie taste for good mutton is growing,
now the people are giving attention
to mutton rather than wool sheep.
The South can produce early lambs
at less expense than the North can.
The Southern farmer can, with great
profit, introduce the mutton sheep
after no has occurred good pasture.
IN these days of refrigeration, when
products can be removed from one
ond of the world to tho other in cold
storage, the poultry interests require
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