Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1911 — Waste of Meat Through Tuberculosis. [ARTICLE]

Waste of Meat Through Tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis in hogs was offered as one of the causes of the increased cost of living in an address by Dr. burton R. Rogers before the convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Doctor Rogers said that of the 30,472,921 hogs killed at United States packing houses in 1900 the government Inspectors found 836,848 affected with tuberculosis. This he said was 130,802 more than in 1908. He said that during the last ten years 2,648,520 tuberculosis hogs and 212.340 tuberculosis cows had been found. This, he said, decreased the meat supply and increased the cost of. living. •- •