Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-14
Blame the Peddlers

Blame the Peddlers
Representa- tives of the Sentous Pack
ing company admitted that their plant
was not government inspected, but that
is was regularly inspected by the city
officials They declared they were anx-
ious for more municipal inspection and
would be willing to pay reasonable
fee for such inspection. They agreed
that public abattoir would, in a large
measure, remedy the lack of confidence
in meat products. 1t was also suggest
ed that the butchers be compelled to
pay reasonable license fee, as they
needed watching as much as the pack
ing and slaughtering houses.
The packers and members of the
board of health in their speeches fas-
tened most of the blame for the bad
meat sold in Los Angeles on peddlers.
1t was asserted that unscrupulouS ped
dlers would purchase hogs dying with
cholera or some other disease and cattle
afflicted with lumpy jaw and kill them
outside the city This has proved the
source of greatest trouble to the city
meat inspectors, and it was suggested
that all meat peddling be prohibited.
L. V. GlaSscock, who conducts
butcher shop in the eastern part of
the city, thought that some distinction
should be made between the legitimate
peddler and the one who sells diseased
meat from his wagon.
Open Poultry Controversy
Il find it necessary to run two ped
ding wagons in connection with my
butcher shop" said Mr. Glasscock.
my place of business is in Sparsely
populated part of the city and in order
to reach all my customers L must send
the wagons to their doors. These wag
ons are a source of annoyance and pro-
duce very little profit, but the house,
wives demand them and 1 must conf
ply. 1 sell only government inspected
meat at my shop and the same kind
of meat from my wagons
/. B. Dockweiler, who represented the
Hauser Packing company, invited the
investigating committee and the board
of health to inspect the new plant of
that company that will be opened in a
few days.
DIR. Powers took advantage of the
presence of so many packers and ship
pers of meat to open a general discus
sion on the merits of drawn and un
drawn poultry. He declared that the
board of health was in a quandary as
to what to do about receiving ship
ments OF cold storage poultry from
eastern markets.
All imported Product UndraWn
Nearly all the poultry received from
the east is undrawn, according to DR..
Powers. Sacramento has recently
passed a city ordinance prohibiting the
Importation of undrawn poultry.
o. l.. Galbreth, local representative
of Swift 81 Co, the Chicago packers,
declared that many experiments had
been made and that undrawn poultry
was found to be far better than the
drawn.
"Concede the most selfish motives
possible to the shippers" said Mr.. Gal
breth, lit must he admitted that we are
anxious to get poultry to Los Angeles
and other points in the best condition
possible and al as little freight expense
as Is possible We have found,
through many years of experimenting,
that the undrawn poultry is much bet
ter in cold storage than that which Is
drawn. If we could produce better re-
suits by having the poultry drawn at
the packing house we would do so, for
we would then be able to save the
freight on the entrais. which are of
no good to anyone"
NJ w. Everhardy, who imports large
quantities of poultry, told the commit
tee that when fowl is drawn and
the air strikes the inside it soon turns
sour, and for this reason the shippers
had found it much better to leave the
fowls undrawn.