Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-06-22

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 a 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 q out
Of 100 meat product inspectors had
gone to work under the new law. said
on Tuesday, Sept. II, 1906: 1T will
be necessary to hold another examina.
ton before the full complement Of 100
men can be installed, and It IL doubt.
full n u sufficient number will be avail.
able for duty when the new law goes
into effect Oct. /. 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.
llshments. They will inspect the trucks.
rooms. hangers. tables, pipes and floors.
Sixty.iive Of those who took the exam.
nation recently passed but only twen-
ty.seven reported for duty. This ID &C.
counted for BY the fact that Of those
who passed q number IRE now EN-.
ployed In the packing houses at 500
q month. The salary Of an inspector 70
but 1sS.33 q month"
A great portion Of the ''lumpy Jaw"
beef slaughtered In the United States
and passed 40 Sound" By the inspect
ors 10 sold and consumed In Chicago,
according to q 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 slaushtering
Of such cattle. prohibits the sale Of the
beef.
That Chicago has become the "dump.
Ing ground" for practically oil 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. OF these only small
fraction 10 condemned az unfit for con.
sumption. The rest, with the diseased
parts cut out, Ii sold for prime beef,
and brings the retailer 40 good prices
% the best beef.
This 10 possible BY reason Of the fact
that the consumer has no way Of telling
whether the beef he buys 10 part Of q
"iumpy Jaw" steer or not II the In.
spectors pass an infected animal. after
the post.mortem inspection, the beef 10
placed In the cooler and sold just 40
any other beef.
Out Of a total days slaughter Of 40
head of "lumpy Jaw" and otherwise IN.
fected animals only twelve car.
cases were condemned after post.
norton inspection. This means that at
an average weight Of 1900 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 ID
shipped into Chicago from Kansas City
and other places where Its sale Is pro.
hiblted would be difficult to estimate
but the quantity IL undoubtedly large
In most Of the Eastern cities ordi
uances 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 will
profit.
The average weekly receipts of cattle
at the stock yards are 10000 head, ant
among these always are found from
100 to 200 animals infected In ont
way or another.
The Beef Trust continues its awfu
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, Q
member of the Department Of Agricll
: lures first "polson squad" Is likely to
be followed by suit against the Gov
eminent by his mother.
Young Freeman succumbed to tuber
culosls after long illness, dating from
his discharge from the squad SIX
months after he Joined. When he
Joined the "poison squad" three years
ago he was declared to be physically
perfect. His mother declares the boriC
acid diet tests to which he was sub
jected weakened his system. DR.. II. w
Wiley, Government food expert, calls
the theory absurd.
Upon entering the "poison squad
young Freeman and other members
signed an agreement absolving the
Government from all blame from any
results that might happen. 1t Is con-
tended by Freeman's mother that he
was not Of age when he signed the
paper.
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II government inspection at the
Union Stock Yards II such q good
thing and Ii 20 thoroughly done, how