Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-06-15

posed upon In the matter. This Is
calf season, Tuesday witnessing the
arrival Of COCO to 10000. and both
packers and spectators are finding the
handling of veal profitable PROPOSE.
ton. Many of these calves ought not
to be shipped alive from the country.
and the practice invites attention by
the Humane Society"
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with q corps OF Beef Trust inspec.
tors the fate of the public will be worse
than 1t ever was.
The Chicago Tribune. after calling
attention to the fact that only % out
Of 100 meat product inspectors had
gone to work under the new law. said
on Tuesday, Sept. II, 1906: ut will
be necessary to hold another examinn.
ton before the full complement of 100
men can be installed. and II Is doubt.
ful II a sufficient number will be avail.
able for duty when the new law goes
into effect Oct. 1. The new inspectors
will look after sanitary conditions at
the plants principally, and Mr.. Cooley
placed them where they could do the
most effective work IN the four estab.
lishments. They will inspect the trucks.
rooms. hangers. tables. pipes and floors.
Sixty.,ive of those who took the exam.
nation recently passed bat only TWEEN.
ty seven reported for duty. This Is &C.
counted for by the fact that OF those
who passed n number are now cm
ployed IN the packing houses at 500
month. The salary of an inspector IL
but SSS.33 Il month"
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A great portion of the "lumpy Jaw"
beef slaughtered In the United States
and passed as "sound" by the inspect.
ors IL sold and consumed In Chicago,
according to n recent article In the
Chicago Tribune. ST. Louis prohibits
both the slaughter and sale Of "lumpy
Jaw" cattle In that city. and Kansas
City. while It permits the slaughtcrlng
Of such cattle. prohibits the sale Of the
beef.
That Chicago has become the "dump.
Ing ground for practically all the
"lumpy Jaw" beef In the country was
revealed by food inspectors.
At one plant are slaughtered every
Friday from 100 TO 200 head Of "lumpy
Jaw" cattle. or these only small
fraction Is condemned as unfit for con.
sumption. The rest, with the diseased
parts cut out, Is sold for prime beef,
and brings the retailer as good prices
10 the best beef.
This Is possible by reason Of the fact
that the consumer has no way of telling
whether the beef he buys IL part Of a
"lumpy Jaw" steer or not. II the In.
spectors pass IN infected animal. after
the p0st.mortem inspection, the beef Is
placed In the cooler and sold Just as
any other beef.
Out OF total days slaughter OF 100
head of "lumpy Jaw" aud otherwise In.
fected animals only twelve car
casses were condemned after post.
mOrtem inspection. This means that Mt
an average weight Of 100 pounds each
there will be sold In Chicago during
the next few days at least 10000
pounds of "lumpy Jaw" beef. How
much of the same kind of meat Ia
shipped into Chicago from Kansas City
and other places where Its sale Is pro.
hiblted would be difficult to estimate,
but the quantity Ia undoubtedly large,
In most of the Eastern, cities ordi.
dances are In force prohibiting the sale
Of meat from animals with actinomy.
COSTS. the scientific name for "lumpy
Jaw" Thus Chicago remains as the
only large market where that class OF
cattle may be slaughtered and sold with
profit,
The average weekly receipts Of cattle
at the stock yards are 10000 head, and
among these always are found from
100 to 200 animals infected In one
way or another.
The Beef Trust continues Its awful
work of murder. Even the employees
Of the Government hired to sample
their products are victims. Read this
Washington, ID. c., Nov. 2l.-Tht
death Of Robert Vance Freeman, d
member of the Department Of Agrlcul
lures first "polson squad" is likely Il
be followed by suit against the Gov
eminent by his mother.
Young Freeman succumbed to tuber
culoss after a long illness, dating from
his discharge from the squad slA
months after he Joined. When ht
joined the "polson squad" three years
ago he was declared to he physically
perfect. His mother declares the bori'
acid diet tests to which he was sub
jccted weakened his system. DR.. ii, w
Wiley, Government food expert, calls
the theory absurd,
Upon entering the "polson squad
young Freeman and other members
signed an agreement absolvlng tht
] Government from all blame from any