Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1884 — American Meats in Germany. [ARTICLE]

American Meats in Germany.

J. H. Saunders, agent of the United States Department of Agriculture, to attend the International Exhibition at Hamburg, in his report recently submitted to the Commissioner of Agriculture says: “So far as I could observe it was generally conceded that whenever an inspection of our pork is made under careful governmental supervision, similar to that now made by the German authorities, there will be no objection to its sale in Germany. Indeed, it strikes me that were such inspection made there would be such strong pressure brought to bear upon the German Government by their own people that the embargo would be speedily removed. Should further experiments confirm what has been already partially shown, that thorough curing in salt destroys the vitality of trichinre if not entirely, at least, to so great a degree as to reduce the danger from meats that have been thoroughly cured by this process to almost nothing, it will doubtless be a strong point in our favor, and proper presentation of the facts to the German Government, should this be clearly proven, ought at once to be made. Until this fact is clearly established, however, and in absence of any pretense of inspection of American meats, either under governmental or individual supervision, the position of the German Government is obviously sound upon this question, and cannot be assailed without first demonstrating that their own inspection is useless.” s The Philadelphia directory shows some strange similarities in the names of professions and their practitioners. Shanks displays his ability as a teacher of dancing. Black is a coal merchant, ohe Saylor is a mariner, Painter is an artist, Law practices his name, Birch is a schoolteacher, and Lamb sells mutton. A Chinese doctor, at Victoria, B. C., is reported to have made some remarkable cures in cases where white physicians had given them up as incurable. It is now known that Charlotte Corday was descended from Corneille, the poet