Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-26
AFFAIRS At SOUTH OMAHA
Live Stock Inspection Bureau is Increasing
It's Working Force,
GREAT FACTOR IN EXPORT MEAT TRADE
work Removes the Prejudice Of
Foreign Consumers Against Amer
lean Meats and opens u
the Markets.

chief Inspector Don C. Aver of the bu-
reau Of animal industry, reports that his
department has increased its eficiency 10
considerable extent during the past year.
There are now between forty and fifty
men constantly employed in the stock
Yards packing houses and in the railroad
yards Besides this there is the regular
ONCE force. This department has been
doing its work so quietly that II Is
question II many OF the people OF South
Omaha outside of the packing houses and
the stock yards know that such an insti-
tuition exists. Still there Is no other one
hing which has done so much to make
he city such a thriving center OF the
neat and live stock business. The bureau
vas established by act of congress in 1891.
At that time there was practically no ex-
port Of meats from the United States. 1t
a remarkable fact that the United States
was the last Of the powers to create such
an enterprise. Up TO this time the for
sign inspectors had continually condemned
he small shipments OF the American
product which reached Europe Prejudice
became so strong in those years, and with
considerable justice, too that the foreign
trade was held back far more and for a
much longer time than II would have been
had there been proper inspection. Since
the bureau was established, however, the
American product has risen steadily in
quality and quantity, until II now bids
fair to surpass all the competitors of the
world We now export millions of pounds
Of beef and pork, where ten years ago
our product was met with condemnation
and prejudice. The reason IL, we have q
clean product, free from those deadly poi
sons and germs, which IL taken into the
human system have caused lifetimes of
misery and scattered deathly infection
broadcast.
what Inspection Has wrought.
I'm those days of indiscriminate killing
Il was not unusual to see the market
slutted with pork at cents per pound
on foot Now the export demand keeps the
price continually over the cent mark.
The same applies to cattle and sheep.
I'VE inspect the live product when it is
received in the yards, and 1t is a fact that
eur men have become so expert In the
detection of humors and disease that it is
rarely that an unit carcass is killed with
cut the condemnation tag on it. This loss
falls on the shipper; and be it said that
we are not especially loved by the aver
age man who sends his stock to our mar
kets We have discovered the peculiar
iTdlI OIL o. CLASS Oh Hlcll lIiCy SccIl "
think IL they beat the government inepec-
tor they have done a smart thing not see
ing that it is this strictness that has really
brought about the profitable business they
are in. or course, il the carcass is sold
before it Is detected, the loss then falls
the packer and that is one reason why
the average shipper tries so many schemes
to evade the eye of the inspector. 1t is
notable fact that more than half the
farmers, when they discover that their
hogs have the cholera or other epidemic
disease, will hurry them of to the mar
kets willing to infict poison and death on
hundreds of their fellowmen. But then.
of course, We find another class that are
entirely conscientious in the matter and
invite the closest scrutiny. 1 am glad TO
say that this class is growing.
our inspection does not stop with the
live animal, but every carcass is looked
ever time and again. My men can detect
the fevered, the tainted the parasitic flesh
at a glance, and the condemnation tag is
At once put on. Every car Of meat shipped
cut is examined: and it cannot leave the
yards without our seal. We examine every
process and every product used in the
pacl1ins houses. | have twelve men con-
stantly working in our laboratory with
or affection. Our favor is not 10 be bought
or sold. We do our duty without fear
OF favor. When We condemn a carcass We
never lose sight of it until it Is put in
the cooking watts and boiled piecemeal
with 1t IL put drug which makes it i'm.
possible for the markets, except as soap
grease. lubricants or fertilizer The aver.
D age OF these carcasses runs from hve e
. thirty per day; representing value. IL th-
meat were At, to pay our department
many times over ! take II, by this very
condemnation, We have actually increased
the value of the balance by two. l car
show statistical proof.
I'VE report 10 the government every day
the work OF the second day preceding, :,
IL is evident that we cannot get fsl
wrong"
Quiet Christmas Day.
Christmas was very quiet day in Souti
Omaha, a day of numerous family re
/ unions. According to the statements o
several Of the local ministers there wer'