The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-14
|D D. ! ARE
READY TO FIGHT
WILL CARRY THEIR COMPLAINT
DIRECT TO GOVERNOR.
Herd Owners Claim that Many Con-
demned Animals Are Sold for Food,
but Without Competition and at Low
Price, by State Authorities-F acts
Being Investigated.


Price, by State Authorities-Fac acts
Being Investigated.
Trouble is brewing for the state live
stock sanitary board, South st. Paul
beef packers and commission men and
few other interested parties, if the
claims made by several local dairymen
prove to be well founded. The dairy
men claim that they have been bun
coed" regularly and systematically and
that they have had absolutely no re-
dress or appeal. Their cattle have been
condemned and slaughtered and they
have been compelled to accept any
thing the state officials chose to give
them. When their cattle: have been
found fit for food, tho affected with
tuberculosis, they have not been al
lowed to realize on the carcasses. The
dressed meat of cattle so killed, it is
claimed, is not sold in the open market
| for its worth, but is knocked down to
Swift Go. at an average rate OF l
cent a pound, even tho others stand
ready to pay its market value.
! Complaints are already in the hands
of an attorney, and the several cases
that will go to make up the formal
complaint against the livestock board
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in the hands of the governor and at
torney general. ~
The Minneapolis Dairymen's assoc1a-
ton held lively meeting Saturday
evening and are now ready for an &C.
tive campaign to secure their rights
They claim that they are imposed on
from two sources-the state and the
city. The city inspector condemns
such cattle as he believes are infected
with tuberculosis. His Judgment is
final and the COW must be killed or the
milk license of the owner will be re-
voked. The dairymen claim that they
should have the right to call in their
own veterinaries or that there should
be some appeal from the judgment OF
| one man.
... Appraisals Altered.
The state inspectors, it is charged,
have power to order cattle killed that
are found to be tuberculous. A boar
Of appraisal consisting Of representa-
tive of the state for the livestock
board, representative of the owner,
and a third, chosen by these two, ap-
praise all cordemned CATTLE, 1t is
has arbitrarily lowered these apprais-
ais, even after paying the two apprais-
ers. Papers and correspondence are on
hand to prove this. 1t is claimed that
the state representative, after the ap-
praisal has been made, should issue a
voucher on the state treasury to the
owner on the ground, to prevent any re-
receives but three-fourths of the ap-
praised value, being obliged by the state
law to lose e-quarter of the value Of
the animal.
Condemned cattle are then driven to
South st. Paul and, on the admission of
the state board itself, are sold to pack
erss and after passing inspection by
federal inspectors are used for meat.
Papers in the hands of the dairymen
show that a large percentage of these
condemned cattle actually pass the ex-
animation and are used for beef. In
this connection it is claimed tho that
the packing company, pays as little as
it pleases for such stock.
Individuals are not in position to
put up fight, but by combining they
will be able to press their claims. The
stock commission men, who do not
neglect to collect their commissions and
such other charges as are standing
against the sale. The complete charges
will be regularly investigated before be.
ing placed before the governor.
Admit Some Is Sold.
DR.. S. H. Ward Of the state sanitary
livestock board is at present attending
at Cleveland, Ohio, but an employee OF
the board today gave the board s side
of the story, that diseased cattle arc
sold for meat at South St. Paul.
: 1t was stated that when cattle are
very slightly affected by tuberculosis
have, for instance. tuberculosis confined
to some one gland, they are condemned
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law, and then sent to South St. Paul
There they pass into the hands Of
,, United States government inspectors
who examine them carefully to see il
! the disease has in any way affected tn,
animals for use as food. If the trouble
, IS found to be very slight, and local.,
confined, the government inspectors per
7 nit OF their sale and use for food.
Want All Under Inspection.
The dairymen are also determine,
that milk shippers who market thei
product in Minneapolis shall be sub
: lect to the same legal requirements i
= the matter of inspection of stock as ar
= stockmen living in and about the city
: a proposed ordinance to be put befor
d the council was discussed at the meet
$ that local stockmen are compelled t
t submit to the examination Of thei
stock and that they have no recours
OF appeal in doubtful cases.
On the other hand it is claimed tina
outside producers who ship their mil
from points 200 and 800 miles outsid
l. the city are not compelled to submit t
any inspection. It is claimed that thi
milk often arrives in badly soured cor
g dition and that the large creamerie
f that distribute it in the city doctor
n until it has the appearance Of the req
7. thing. It is said that badly SQUIRE
n milk is mixed with sweet, pasteurizet
: embalmed with salicylic acid and thicl
9 ened with gelatine, after which it
f Several dairymen present stated thu
d they favored a local distributing plar
r that would market sweet, fresh milk fe
local producers. .s.r
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