Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-10-09

declined to pass, and the loss falls on
the stockman. But after this antemor-
tenn inspection the animals become the
property of the packer and all losses
through ultimate condemnation of the
stock must, of course, fall upon him.
A sheep which bears on its skin plain
evidence Of "sheep scab," hog with
large. red cholera splotches on his hide,
a steer with external tumors, sores or
assesses, or any animal which exhibits
the ordinary indications of illness, such
as inability to walk, etc, will be cut
out. The law requires that the refused
animal must be killed and turned into
soap fat and fertilizer.
The number of animals cut out at the
autemortem examination varies so
greatly that the inspectors decline to
strike an average on the number ex-
cluded per day. Thousands may be
passed without one being refused, but
in the next hundred 10 per cent or more
may be condemned. AS a matter of
fact, however, many of the diseased
animals pass this first inspection with
out exciting the suspicion on the part
of the inspectors. for they bear no ex-
terror evidence whatever of the fact
that they are suffering from danger
Gus Illness.
Passing this first inspection success
fully, the animals are weighed and sent
90 the slaughter houses of the company
purchasing them. Hogs receive by far
the most careful inspection. Two In
spectors watch the passing of the
slaughtered hogs, while but one ex-
amines cattle, and there is also but
one each for sheep and calves. The
hogs are given the stricter examination
because of their greater liability to dis
ease and the greater danger to be found
In the incipient stages of hog diseases.
and it. of course, goes without saying
that early stages OF disease In any ami
mails are more difficult to detect than
those more advanced.
After going through the first opera
lions at the slaughter house the hog is
strung up by the heels with hundreds
Of Others and passes forward in line
thftt seems endless. The device to
which the animals are strung up is fit
ted with a small wheel which rolls
along single track. Not far from the
point where the hogs are first strung
up and only few feet from the line of
moving carcasseS sits the first OF the
hog inspectors. AS each hog passes in
front Of him a workman with two
slashes of q knife removes the entire
visCera from the already partially open
ed body of the hog and throws them
on n platform at the side of the raised
chair ia which the Inspector is sitting.
Just above the head of the inspector
and little TO the rear is an electric
lamp, which throws a brilliant stream
OF light down on the platform.
Each time as the entrails are thrown
down the Inspector glances down at
them one glance is sufficient Long.
long practice at postmortems and IA
miliarity with normal viscera enable
the Inspector To tell quicker than the
wink ef an eye if anything is the mat
ter with the hog whose vital organs
and inteStines have been thrown before
him. Spots on the lungs. enlargement
Of the lymph glands. darkened appear
anee Of other glands, blac6ened spinal
column aud perhaps half dozen addi-
tional points Indicate 10 him at once
that the hog is diseased. Every time
this inspector finds a case which he
thinks suspicious or clearly defined as
unit for food he steps forward from his
chair ans slips wire loop through the
aesh Of the hog. The wire bears large
yellow card stating that the carcass is
condemned. Also attached to the wire
is 3 small lead seal for fastening the
two ends Of the wire together.