Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-16
New Meat Inspection Regula.
tions Have Bad Effect on Chi
cago Dealers
CONFUSION AS TO THE LAW
Many Farmers Believe They Must
Have Their Meat Inspected Before
hipment-Committee Visits Wilson
to Ask for Some Change in the Reg
uations.
ulations.

Chicago, Nov 16-Tnousands Of
dollars are being lost weekly by South
Water street commission men because
of the failure of the farmers rightly
to interpret the new interstate COM
merce law, which took effect October l..
The law requires that every farmer
who handles calves, hogs, beef lambs
and mutton, must fill out a slip called
order No. 1871, regulation SO. The orig
inal he sends to Washington and the
duplicate goes to the common carrier.
inspected carcasses he has slaughtered,
name of the railroad to which offer
ed, name of shipper, consignee point
of shipment. point of destination, car
number and initial. He must also GER
tify that the said meats or meat foods
are sound, healthful wholesome and
fit for human food.
This slip gives him the right to have
his commodities exempted from in
SPSst'oiip Jul ti lie same tIII19 1t en-
ables the government to run down any
party guilty of shipping diseased
meats
Fear Of tho Farmers.
Hundreds Of the farmers believe that
the law includes poultry and game in
spection and have withheld shipments
for fear Of prosecution, while others.
not being able to obtain the slips, have
not made any shipments. All farmers
thruout the country are exempted from
inspection. The retail butcher or re-
tall dealer who does business in Hill
nois must obtain a certificate number
from Washington which exempts
him from inspection. but he, like the
farmer, must also fill out a slip called
order No. 1877, regulation 55, stating
that the meats or food products offered
for shipment in interstate commerce
to customer are sound and fit for hui
man food, and send the original to
Washington and the duplicate with the
goods. This enables the government to
keep tab on him.
If dealer doing business in Illi-
nois ships his goods out OF the state
he must have them inspected by an
inspector of the government and have
post-mortem stamp on each carcass be-
fore it leaves the state. The dealer
and farmer must also state what kind
and how much foodstuffs they are
Shipping.
The new law created such havoc
with the farmers shipments that the
South Water street commission men
were forced to form an association
that they might protect their interests.
Committee Visits Wilson.
Sixty merchants formed the Chicago
Veal and Poultry Commission Asso-
citation and appointed a committee to
wait on Secretary of Agriculture Will
son to see if the existing conditions
could be somewhat relieved. The COM
mittee--I. V. Cougle, w. B. Margraff,
Frank A. Kelly and Congressman Mad
den-went to Washington and asked
Secretary Wilson to extend the time SO
as to give the farmer a chance to get
posted and get the required slips. This
was refused them. Secretary Wilson
was then asked whether a retail but
cher could ship to a commission man
as customer and he told them he
could The secretary was asked
whether calf buyer or dealer was a
dealer in meats and whether he would
be furnished an exemption certificate.
Secretary Wilson told them that the
dealer would be furnished with an ex-
emption certificate if he kept his place
clean and did not handle too much
meat.
Any dealer outside of the state of
Illinois must have his goods inspect
ed before they can be shipped into the
state.