Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-06

Is the best customer for the worlds meats,
and he buys most from the United States,
He imports more every year than
port, but he draws from other nations as
we'll as from In 1903 the United States
sent Great Britain 500 millions of pounds
Of meat, Argentina sent about $500 MILLIONS
Of pounds and New Zealand 200 millions,
The other countries, which produced smaller
amounts, were Denmark, Holland and Cam
ada. The most OF the Argentina meat was
in the shape Of beef and mutton, ana that
| OF New Zealand was largely frozen mutton.
Our meats were OF all classes, fresh, packed
and on the hoof
I'VE have the advantage of Argentina as
to shipping live animals. The cattle OF that
country are grass fed and they nave dis
eases which prevent their competing with
us. They cannot be sent abroad unless
killed, and their beef must go in cold stor-
age packed. We are exporting great
| deal of meat in the shape OF packing house
products: We ship hundreds of millions Of
| pounds of bacon and hams and a vast
| quantity of lard. The only country that
| completes with US to live animals is Cans
| ada and this is likewise SO as TO bacon
Our Meat Abroad.
Tell me just what our meat exports
| consist OFF,
I'm 1904 they amounted to S21s.OO0Ooo,
replied the Secretary, land of this S115.-
100000 came from lard, cattle, fresh beef.
bacon, hams and oleo oil. We then
worth of cattle. s27 coo worth of fresh
beef and s25,Ooo.ooo worth of bacon. The
most of the lard went to Belgium, Hol-
land and Germany and a great part of
the balance to the United Kingdom. We
are increasing shipments of cattle
and fresh beef, and also those OF our pack
ing house products.
but will not this investigation of the
| beef trust hurt our foreign meat trader"
mot for any length of time. In fact,
think ii will help it. Under the new act
of Congress the Agricultural Department
will inspect our American meats from
the pastures to the package We shall
see to it that the meats are in good con-
dition all along the line. We shall watch
them at every stage, and the customers
can feel sure that they are sound, whole
some and fit for food. In fact, the best
meat label of the future is to be the Amer
lean label; and it VIII be a guarantee OF
good meat all over the world Since the
investigation there has been some falling
off in our sales of canned meats, but the
world needs them and will buy them"
Speaking further about our meat In
spection, 1 would say that there VIII IN
the future be two kinds of slaughter
houses l mean one kind that will be
under the supervision of the United States
and another kind that will not be un-
der that supervision. The several states
and cities must look after their own butch
ering. AS to this department, 1t has to
deal only with those packing houses which
manufacture for interstate and foreign
commerce. we nave put OUT new IuSS
for such inspection, and we will keep them
rigid enough to insure good and absolutely
healthy meat"
Diseased Meats.
How do our animals compare with those
of other countries as to diseases?
They are remarkably free from them,
and we shall make them more so n the fu-
ture We expect to exterminate sheep sca0
and cattle mango and to that end are hav.
ing the animals dipped. This goes on
throughout the mountain states and also In
the south. AS 1t Is now they have fever
tick In the southern states which attacks
animals imported from the north. Many OF
the other states quarantine against IT, ana
the result is our meat Industry In inc
south is comparatively small. BY STUDYING
this tick we have found that we can get
rid of 1t by starving 1t. The Insect bree0s
on the ground. although 1t feeds entirely.
on the blood of the animals. The way We
do Is to divide the pasture fields ana put
the animals on one side and nothing on thS
other. The ticks which are on the grouno
and breeding. having no animals 10 teeo
upon soon die, and after time we can
turn the cattle back into those neids ana
let the ticks die on the other side Beiore
changing we dip the animals IN mixture
which kills the ticks upon them, and in TINS
! way we are fast wipng out the pest. Con
press has given us over $4,000 TO use ior
this purpose in the southern states and the
states themselves will aid in the WORK
After we have cleaned out the tick the
quarantine can be lifted. and the southern
farmer will find large part OF MS pront
IN raising meat. You see. the south has
MANY advantages over the north and west
in stock raising. Its winters are mild. ana
therefore less feed is needed to fatten the
stock" FRANK u. CAhFEN len.