Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-08-07
Foreigners Encouraged 10
Bring Their Products In
TO This Country
Work Of Tick Eradication
Increases The Value OF
All Animals =.
b M. McWade.

Washington, Aug. 6.-Farmers ami
cattle dealers all, over the country
have been kicking up a rumpus. as
a result of a misunderstanding over
the press dispatches announcing that
Doctors A. d. Melvin and Edward G.
Joss OF the United States Bureau or
Animal Industry, have been detailed
TO Australia and Latin-American
countries to investigate meat prOduc-
ton. the remOnstrants protesting
that the department should encourage
domestic production of meat instead
Of encouraging foreign shippers to
bring their products into competition
with the local products"
Dr.. David f. Houston, the secretary
of agriculture, was naturally much
concerned, and has kept his Office
staff busy replying to the writer's, as
surfing them that the primary object
Of sending those experts abroad il
neither to- encourage nor to discour-
age the export of meat to the United
States but to make certain that tn"
department of agriculture under
stands fully the conditions under
which meat offered for. entry into the
United States is produced, slaugh
tered. packed and shipped. The data
gained by these foreign inspectors
will be directly useful to the govern
ment in seeing that meat offered for
admission to the country conforms
not only to the meat inspection act
but also to the food and drugs act.
which has recently been held to have
Jurisdiction in Interstate commerce
Deer meat and meat products. Armed
with this information, the department
can cooperate effectively, with the
secretary of the treasury in keeping
out Of the United States all meat
produced firm diseased cattle, all
meats slaughtered in u%nsanitary es
adjustments OF improperly refriger
ated, packed aid shipped and all meal
products prepared under conditions
that would not be permitted in the
federally inspected establishments Of
the United States.
Til secondary object of the trip,
as explained in the letter Of instruc.
ton to these inspectors is to look
into the general condition OF the live
stock industry in the foreign coun'
tries, the growth of that industry, the
countries to which they are now ex'
portingfi livestock,and meat and the
probability of future shipments into
the United States.
& The inspectors also are required to
study the transportation facilities
possessed by these foreign packers
and exporters OF meat and meat prod.
llcts and to give particular attention
to their method of refrigerating and
storing. a}
This foreign inspection of meat has
become very necessary, irrespective
of changes in the tariff on meat for
the reason that since 1906 the total
domestic production Of cattle has
been 80 per cent below the actua!
demand. In other words. this means
the production OF cattle. has
fallen off while the population has
been increasing. The department |:
to meet this domestic situa
NY carrying Ou SACSHhlVe CdLu
for the eradication of the tick.
which more than anything else has
the southern states from
supplying the normal yield of meat
SiSmilar campaigns are being
Waged against tuberculosis, foot and
mouth diseases, scabies and other
plaques. which arc reducing the cattle
output of their sections. The dairy
division. through field workers and
demonstrators, is carrying on an OK.
propaganda to induce farm
ers to replace scrub cattle with good
meat breeds and To convince farmers
Of the Importance Of not selling their
good COWS for slaughter.
The work for tick eradication In
states of the South has in.
creased the ANNA, value of cattle
over $2,0AO.OOO fey a few coun
ties alone. 1t is hoped that whom
greater headway has been made