Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1891 — PREPARING TO INSPECT MEAT. [ARTICLE]

PREPARING TO INSPECT MEAT.

Dr. Salmon Will Begin Putting Into Effec * the New Law in a Few Days. Germany and France will, within a very few days, no longer have any excuse for maintaining an embargo against Ameri•an meat, for on Thursday or Friday Dr. E. ILEalmon, Chief of the Bureatiof Animal Industry, will leave for Chicago to Superintend the beginning of operations under the new meat-inspection law. He will take with him the microscopes, lags and seals which are to be used In inspecting meats, and will locate the inspectors at the various slaughter houses and inaugurate the system which is to be carried on permanently. The expert veterinarians will jbe assigned to each slaughter house to do the actual work of inspecting,, and they will be assisted by men who will handle the meat and do the tagging. The entirejorce of and assistants will be under the direction of a central officer. Most of those who are to be engaged in the inspection work are already in the employ of the Department of Agriculture, and such additional force as will be necessary will be engaged by Dr. Salmon when he reaches Chicago. The doctor has taken an important part in the various steps of the meat inspecting system. The various voluminous rules and regulations which are issued under the name of Secretary* Rusk were first drafted by Dr. Salmon. It has been through him also that cattle exporters have made their recent successful efforts to get American livestock admitted to German ports without the former haof Animal Industry, Dr. Salmon has bent all his energies toward breaking down the foreign restrictions put upon our meats and live stock, and his efforts hav e been remarkable successful.