The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-17


 He has sampled the canned msats fur nished the army, and he knows as we'll as any one that, our meats are good.
 Fighting the American Hog. lust now the agrarians are making a big fight on the American hog. This is both open and secret. The meat inspectors sympathize with them. and our pork is thrown out on all softs of pretexts.
 The authorities of the various provinces have been practically instructed to dis criminate against Americans, to refuse our consuls statistical information as to the miraculous of the laws upon pro- visions and food products. and withhold from them. the finding of trichinae or other deleterious substances Tn domestic meats, and also the condition of human and animal diseases in their -esps3tlve districts. Such orders are secret ones, but that which I have quoted was stolen by clerk In one of the provincial offices and read in a political speech in the reichstag. A leading German paper in commenting upon 1t said:
 What the order really means is that If any disease Is found in any meat sold in Germany 1t must come from the outside, for we want the world to believe we have no disease, animal or human, and that trichinae can only come from American meats"
 Nevertheless, the Germans are now eat ing about 3.0O0,000 pounds of our meat month and they would take millions more if the agraians would let it in. The cham ber of commerce of Hamburg recently criticised the meat inspection law. say ing that American corned beef had been used for years by the imperial navy and the general public and that there is no reason for objecting to 1t. It stated that a prize of 2,OOO marks was offered two years ago for a case of trichinae caused by American meat, and that this had not yet been claimed. It spoke well of cur lard and said that all suspicious against 1t were based upon prejudice or gross ignorance.
 Germans as Sausage Eaters.
 had a talk with the German agent of our biggest packing house trust In one of the cities of the Rhine as to the importa- ton of American meats Said he:
 "The people here want American food stuffs, but the agrarians crowd them out Their talk about tariff has raised the prices of meat, and also their success in excluding the American sausage.
 We Germans are sausage eaters We want our meat chewed. There is no waste in sausage. and cheap sausage means much to the poor. Before Ameri- can sausages were excluded you could buy good article for 15 1-2 cents a pound. The same thing now sells for 37 cents pound, and other kinds of meat are approximately high. We used to have great trade in American flyers. but the agrarlan inspectors are keeping them out. and they exclude all American fresh meats by delaying the examination of the meat until it spells The result is we dare not ship 1t. There Is a great deal of fuss now about the use of bo- racic acid as a preservatlve. and alto gether everything is done to keep our meats ont of the markets"
 At the Berlin Cattle Yards.
 Nearly all the cities of Germany own their own markets, They have their own cattle yards and their own slaughter houses. the animals being killed under the eyes of inspectors. I went out the other day to see the cattle markets of Der lin. They are situated on the edge of the city and are easily. reached by the Ring balm. They cover many acres and have cost about four million dollars.
 During my visit the yards were filled with cattle, sheep and hogs. There were about 5000 sheep in one set of stalls, and was told that 2O,0OO sheep are brought in every day. Accommodations are pro vided in one hall for 4,OOO cattle, and there are arrangements so that other thousands can be handled at the same time.
 The cattle were roaring like bulls of Bashan when entered the hall; across the way the sheep were baaing and there was such a bleating of calves that 1t fairly dinned my ears.
 l wish could show you the hogs. There were thousands of them and the cleanest prettiest hogs I have ever seen. Each porker had evidently been scrubbed be- fore he had been brought in. His ,bris- | ties shone like frosted silver and his skin | was as rosy as the cheek of baby. The | drovers in long white coats were moving | the pigs from one part of the yard to the | other. and as they did so the sun poked | his rays through the silver bristles and | made them look like painted hogs. Each | animal was marked with, stamp showing | that the inspector had looked 1t over and | passed upon 1t for killing, and later on I | saw that every piece of meat was like wise stamped. They are altogether about AOO inspectors employed, of whom ]