Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1898 — INSPECTION OF MEATS. [ARTICLE]

INSPECTION OF MEATS.

Report of the Bureau of Animal In- . dustry for the Fiscal Year. Dr. D. E. Salmon, chief of the bureau of animal industry, in his report to the Secretary of Agriculture for the fiscal year ended June 30, IS9B, states that during the year meat inspection was in operation at 135 abattoirs, as against 128 for the previous year, and in thirty-five cities, as against thirty-three in 1897. The number of animals inspected before slaughter numbered 51,335,398. Of these 9,228,237 were cattle, 10.028.257 sheep, 468,199 calves and 31,610,675 hogs, a total gain over 1897 of 9,025,291 animals. At the time of slaughter 31.116,833 animals were inspected and 63,662 were rejected; 91,508 carcasses and 48,189 parts of carcasses were condemned. The meat inspection stamp was affixed to 14,583,780 packages of mutton and beef and pork products, of which 374,131 contained microscopically examined pork.