214 DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS. 



The meat-inspection tag or brand was placed upon 17,177,442 quar- 

 ters, 343,427 pieces, and 1,554 sacks of beef, 6,050,444 carcasses of 

 slieep, 310,126 carcasses of calves, 1,138,507 carcasses of hogs, and 

 653,756 sacks and 48,485 j)ieces of pork. 



The number of packages to which the ordinary meat-inspection stamp 

 was alfixed consisted of 5,584,995 containing beef, 24,151 of mutton, 

 107 of veal, 13,122,677 of pork, and 602 of horseflesh. 



The number of cars that were sealed containing inspected products 

 for transshipment to official establishments and other places, was 

 69,937. 



The number of ordinary certificates issued, except for horseflesh, 

 was 43,631. The meat i^roducts for export covered by these certifi- 

 cates comprised 1,766,234 quarters, 22,844 pieces, and 1,225,214 pack- 

 ages of beef, with a total weight of 438,138,233 pounds; 11,468 i^ack- 

 ages of mutton, weighing 680,897 pounds; and 46,233 carcasses of hogs 

 and 897,551 packages of pork, weighing 272,050,663 pounds. Eight 

 certificates were issued for 472 packages of horseflesh, weighing 

 188,800 pounds. 



The cost of conducting the work of ordinary meat inspection was 

 1505,280.52; this is an increase of $39,571.29 over the amount expended 

 the previous year, and as this year's total of ante-mortem insijections 

 is 53,087.994, against 53,223,176 in 1899, the average cost of each inspec- 

 tion is increased from 0.88 cent to 0.95 cent. 



The following statement shows the cost of each ante-mortem inspec- 

 tion from 1893 to 1900, inclusive: 



Cents. Cents. 



1893 4.75 



1894 1.75 



1895 1.10 



1896 _ 95 



1897 .-- .91 



1898 .80 



1899 .88 



1900 _... : . .95 



MICEOSCOPIC INSPECTION OF PORK. 



The number of carcasses examined was 999,554, resulting in the 

 following classification: Class A, free from all appearance of trichinse, 

 968,405, or 96.88 per cent; Class B, containing trichina-like bodies or 

 disintegrating trichinae, 11,701, or 1.17 percent; Class C, containing 

 living trichinae, 19,448, or 1.95 percent. The ijercentages this year 

 are practically the same as those previously found, there being a 

 slight increase in carcasses of Class C. 



There were 19,465 trichinous carcasses (including a few left over 

 from preceding year) disposed of; their weight is given as 4,674,363 

 pounds. Of this quantity, approximately, half was tanked, the rest 

 being turned into cooked meat. 



The number of certificates issued for packages bearing the micro- 

 scopic inspection stamp was 12,107; the number of packages was 

 253,333, with a weight of 55,809,626 pounds. 



The year having witnessed a great falling oft' in the trade in micro- 

 scopically inspected poilv products, the number of examinations and 

 the number of pounds exported were reduced to about half the fig- 

 ures for 1899, while the expenses were reduced but about one-fourth, 

 and, as a consequence, the relative cost is much more. The figures 

 for this year are: Expenditures, $154,950.22; average for each car- 

 cass examined, 15.5 cents; for each pound exported, 0.277 cent. For 

 1899 the corresponding figures were 1198,355.14; 8.9 cents; 0.182 cent. 



