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

sealing is completed. On the lead seal
as well as upon the yellow cards APP
pears u. S. Condemnation"
All of the carcasses condemned are
taken to refrigerated retaining rooms,
where they are locked up by the United
States employees, no one else having
keys to the lock. When room is filled
it is sealed as well as locked, and it is
crime for anyone other than an in
spector to break the seals. When the
packing house is ready TO dispose of the
condemned pork the seals are broken
and the doors of the retaining rooms
unlocked by the officials and, under the
eye of an inspector, each hog is re-
moved and pushed down through the
hole in the top of the big rendering
tank. Into this tank all kinds of offaI
must be thrown, so that the pork may
at once be ruined for use as food. In
this tank the pork is steamed and boil
ed until is decomposed. The fat rises
to the surface and the bones and meat
sink to the bottom. The fat skinned
from the top to be used in the manu-
facture of the cheapest kinds of soap
and the bones and meat are taken out
To be used in making fertilizers.
With the passing of hogs by the sec
ond inspector all examination for pork
TO be consumed in the United States is
complete. No record of the inspection
is stamped directly upon the carcass, as
in the case with cattle, for no whole or
half hogs are sent out from the slaugh-
ter-houSes, all swine being cut into
smaller pieces. The inspection brands
are later placed on these small pieces,
directly on the meat itself or in the
form of tags pasted upon the canvas
covers.
Pork for foreign export receives ex-
animation after passing this regular in
spection which is so elaborate and
thorough that it can scarcely be COM
pretended by anyone who has not
made personal visit to the yards and
witnessed the work. From three diff
ferent parts of the body of every hog
which is designed for export bits of
flesh are taken for microscopic examin-
alton. Traces of trichinae and other
diseased conditions which can DO de-
tected only through the microscope are
sought for with the utmost diligence
After the pork has satisfactorily pass
ed all of these microscopic tests it is
placed IN casks and slowed away under
lock and key in cold storage rooms.
Here it is watched and guarded as If it
were precious metal. At the gate open
ing into these rooms is a government
office which keeps track of everything
that goes into or out of these fiigid
apartments. Foreign regulations have
been SO rigid in relation to admission of
American pork that these extremely
strict and iron-clad regulations have be
come absolutely necessary.
Accept Beef inspection.
The requirements in regard TO Ameri-
can beef maintained by foreign coUn-
tries are by no means as heavy as those
on pork. and the United States inspec
ton given for interstate trade is &C
eepted as ample by all other coun-
tries. Cattle are not nearly so liable TO
disease as hogs and on a day when If
teen or twenty hogs might be thrown
out in q single packing house there
might be only one. two or three cattle.
Diseased steers are often among the
very finest appearing and heaviest that
are purchased. That they are worth
less is only discovered after they have
been killed and opened. tuberculosis
is the disease with which the cattle are
most often found TO be afflicted. 1t IS
also often found among diseased hogs.
but cholera is most common with the
latter. The men who inspect hogs can