Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-29
OF AGRICULTURE
PROPOSES TO PLACE OFFICIAL
IN EVERY STATE.
WILL COOPERATE WITH
STATE AND LOCAL BOARDS
Admission Made That Much eaa
Meat Finds Its Way to Markets ana
Tables Of censumers-slams Alleged
to b. Local and Not with ''v''"
ment Inspectors.
especial Correspondence

1y,sbi,e,on Ian. % The need OF
NOV. harmonious working with the
states and municipalities IN meat :"
specticn and in dealing with pure iooo
matters is seriously felt by the depart
men OF agriculture.
The department considers TINS heeo
sufficiently great that it Is piahhihs
tc add to its force competent s'a'e
officia, or expert, who knows fully con
ditions re be met in the states anu
who will be able to take up enec'i'eis
With state officials and state boards
the matter Of more effective legislation
and regulation both with respect 10
better inspection of meats ana 'ho''
attention to pure food
Acting Secretary Galloway is giving
a erea; deal Of attention to meat in
spec.:cn and pure food matters He Is
convinced that the uncertain zone be-
tween the federal and state jurisdic-
tons and the fact many Of the states
do not pass adequate laws and take
other adequate steps to require pure
meats and foods within their own Dor
irc deficiencies. If the states would
enact laws in harmony with the federal
government in meat inspection and
oura foods and the plan were carried
Gu. of harmonious action between the
federal government and the states. DR..
Galloway is convinced the country
would soon have comparatively pure
meat and pure foods.
Much Bad Meat Sold.
He holds tina. there are grave trou-
hies in the present situation and that
much bad meat. unfit for consump-
ton. Is found in the markets. This he
believes is almost entirely due to fail
ure of the states to dea! as strictly
with the !ntrastate meat business as
they should.
VIII respect TO the federal meat in
spect!on regulations. ana the federal
meat inspection system, o. which there
has been and is sharp criticism. the
department Of agriculture does not adj
init there q grea; deal a. fault. Soon
after Secretary Houston took charge
of the department four experts. among
the m DR.. Sedgewick, Of Cornell, were
named to look into the meat inspection
service. Two OF these experts have
expected before long The department
will publish them when they are all in.
What will be the aggregated findings
OF the experts can not yet be told but
it is known that the two who have
reported have commended most fea-
lures of the service and have limited
their recommendations for improve
ments to those of a minor nature.
However, the department is working
on notifications OF existing regula tons
and it is given out the new regula-
tons will be stricter than the old ones.
Acting Secretary Galloway says 1t Is
the purpose to tighten up the reg
ulations wherever it is practicable to
do so.
One OF the meat products the depart
ment has had much trouble with is
sausage. Sometime ago. regulations
were put into force calculated to shut
out OF interstate trade sausage which
was chiefly corn meal ami water or
which contained other substan noes still
more remote from the Ingredients of
good sausage. This was no sooner
done than sausage manufacturers
fastened to the department in droves
and pleaded, in effect, fer the right
TO make what they saw fit for the pub
Tic to consume under The guise of
sausage. The department, however, did
! not give way. 1t has been Under great
pressure from the sausage makers bu,
the new regulations will not let down
IN repsect to this product In fact.
assurance os given that they vii! let
GOWN anywhere along the line but will
be made more strict