128 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Meat and meat food products prepared and processed under inspection. 



The following quantities of meat and meat food products were 

 condemned on reinspection on account of having become sour, tainted, 

 unclean, rancid, or otherwise unwholesome: Beef, 5,571,889 pounds; 

 jjork, 7,281,595 jDounds; mutton, 125,698 pounds; veal, 41,351 pounds; 

 goat meat, 525 pounds; horse meat, 13,130 pounds; total, 13,034,188 

 pounds. 



MAKKET INSPECTION. 



Market inspection, to facilitate interstate deliveries of meats and 

 products, was conducted in 45 cities. 



MEAT AND PEODUCTS CERTIFIED FOR EXPORT. 



The following products were certified for export : Beef and beef 

 products, 219,981,160 pounds; pork and pork products, 1.493,793,936 

 pounds; mutton and mutton products, 4,308,632 pounds; total, 

 1,718;083,728 pounds. In addition 14 certificates were issued covering 

 the export of 335,781 pounds of horse-meat products and 2,320 cer- 

 tificates covering the export of 40,339,757 pounds of inedible animal 

 products. 



EXEMPTION FROM INSPECTION. 



The provisions of the meat-inspection law requiring inspection 

 usually do not apply to animals slaughtered by a farmer on the farm 

 nor to retail butchers and dealers supplying their customers. The 

 retail butchers and dealers, however, in order to ship meat and meat 

 food products in interstate or foreign commerce, are required to ob- 

 tain certificates of exemption. The number of exemption certificates 

 outstanding at the close of the fiscal j^ear was 2,841, an increase of 

 142 over the preceding year. During the year 89 certificates were 

 canceled, 83 on account of the dealers retiring from business or ceasing 

 to make interstate shij^ments and 6 for violations of the regulations. 



During the year 36,477 shipments were made by retail dealers and 

 butchers holding certificates of exemption, as compared with 34,969 

 shipments during the fiscal year '1921. The shipments of the year 

 covered products as shown in the following table : 



