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ANNUAL, EEPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



INSPECTION OF MEAT AND PRODUCT.S. 



The inspection ^nd supervision of meats and products prepared 

 and processed are shown in the following table, which is a record 

 only of inspection performed and not a statement of the aggregate 

 quantity of products prepared. The same product is sometimes 

 duplicated by being reported in different stages of preparation under 

 more than one heading. 



Meat and meat food products prepared and processed under supervision. 



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, 5,197,123 

 pounds; pork, 8,837,315 pounds; mutton, 58,277 pounds; veal, 56,478 

 pounds; goat meat, 188 pounds; horse meat, 12,100 pounds; total, 

 14,161,481 pounds. 



MARKET INSPECTION. 



Market inspection, to facilitate interstate deliveries of meats and 

 products, was conducted in 24 cities. 



MEAT AND PRODUCTS CERTIFIED FOR EXPORT. 



The following products were certified for export: Beef and beef 

 products, 194,923,114 pounds; pork and pork products, 1,842,651,273 

 pounds; mutton and mutton products, 3,425,950 pounds; total, 

 2,041,000,337 pounds. In addition 10 certificates were issued cover- 

 ing the export of 183,484 pounds of horse-meat products and 2,672 

 certificates covering the export of 51,467,350 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 



