The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-07-09
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FERROUS TIMES AtfEA rs
TRIP OF ltlsP EcTloNs
Washing tom July ecretary Of
Agriculture Wilson Is making ar.
engagements for a unique vacation this.
summer. he intends TO spend the
time in making q tour Of the packing
tcenters Of the country and taking up,
matters connected with the enforce
ment Of the new Meat Inspection Law.
He will start next week on this tour,
and viii open his Investigations at
Chicago, where he will meet the man.
ayers Of the packing interests. heads
of concerns and immediate subordi.
mates.
The Secretary has not decided the
exact day on which he will reach Chi
cago, but he intends to leave Wash
ington Just as soon as he can finish
the work of his department incident.
to the closing Of one fiscal year and
the reopening of another. AS a com.
panion Secretary Wilson will be ac-
companIed by DR.. A. d. Melvin, chief
of the Bureau of Animal Industry.
The Secretary's plan is for co-opera-
ton between the department and the
packer, and in this regard the secre-
tary says:
f'The packers are anxious to make
the law effective. and to have their.
customers known as soon as possible
that it. is effective. Except once in a
WHILE" continued the Secretary, eve
have no trouble in enforcing the law.
That once-in-a-whi1e is the one we
win have to watch. Well enforce it
on him; the others will make no
trouble"
The Secretary expects to be in Chi
cago a week or 10 days, investigating
the conditions in the packing-houses,
informing himself about the improve
ments already made and learning Just
what is planned for future better
ments. The Secretary finds it impos-
sible to give any schedule as to the
dates he will visit the various cities,
and adds: "That will depend on con-
veniences: but will add that I am
going to see all the packing institu-
tfons this summer. When this law
! is in complete operation" continued
the Secretary, 1--WE will be able to
show the agents Of foreign countries
the best live stock in the world,
slaughtered and prepared in the best
and most complete establishments
and subjected to the most perfect
inspection We will lose no time In
making the world know these things.
The future of the American meat
trade is not realized as it ought to
be. We have the best meat because
we are the only country where they
raise cattle and the corn side by side.
We are the worlds corn country.
Now, our Western stock, raised and
fattened out of doors. is famous as
showing the least percentage Of dis
ease known. Our corn.fed beef is
the best. Nobody else has the corn
to make anything like it.
"The cattle of Europe are finished
largely on the by-products of our
mills, Argentine and Australian
stock are raised on grass and finish
ed on grass. They can't compare
with our corn.fed stun. In Europe
and Britain they raise stock on grass,
and then finish on turntps, with oil
cake cotonseed cake or peanut oil
cake from Egypt-the by-products of
fax, cottonseed and peanuts after
the oil has been extracted. Why.
Denmark sells England s35.OOO,0oO
worth of butter year made by feed
ing these by-products to COWS. We
don't even use these things in feeding
because our corn is so much better.
Yet large portion of American farm
ers live by producing the things we
supply to other countries to feed taeIr
stock. Half the prime Scotch beef
is really American corn-fed; nothing
else can be substituted and sold as
prime Scotch They know In Eng
land and in Germany that our meats
are the best, and we are going to see
that everybody else finds 1t out. The
meat industry will grow SO much that
before many years we will look back
on this Incident OF 1906 ana recog-
nize that it was just one Of the things
marking the beginning OF the real
greatness OF the business"