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

 food products in interstate or foreign commerce, are required first to 

 obtain certificates of exemption. The number of exemption certifi- 

 cates outstanding at the close of the fiscal year was 2,622, an increase 

 of 71 over the preceding year. During the year 79 certificates were 

 canceled, 71 on account of the dealers retiring from business or ceas- 

 ing to make shipments, and 8 for violations of the regulations. Dur- 

 ing the year 33,339 shipments were made by retail butchers and 

 dealers holding certificates of exemption, as compared with 33,166 

 shipments during the fiscal year 1919. The shipments of the year 

 consisted of the products shown in the following table : 



Shipments by retail butchers and dealers under certificates of exemption from 



inspection. 



Product. 



Beef, carcasses (752 quarters). 



Veal, carcasses 



Sheep, carcasses 



Swine , carcasses 



Beef, fresh 



Number.! Pounds. 



Veal, fresh 



Mutton, fresh , 



Pork, fresh 



Cured meats 



Lard 



Sausage 



Miscellaneous (scrapple, tripe, headcheese, etc.) 



188 



24,855 



402 



325 



80,695 



,112,433 



19,204 



38,760 



984,316 



225,264 



161,471 



197, 855 



211,380 



15,700 



84,382 



39,982 



Total 25,760 4,171,442 



During the year 62,983 interstate shipments were made of meat 

 and meat food products from animals slaughtered by farmers on the 

 farm, as compared with 60,197 shipments made during the fiscal year 

 1919. The following table shows the products composing these 

 shipments : 



Shipments of farm-slaufjhtered products under exemption from inspection. 



Product. 



Number. I Pounds. 



Beef, carcasses (1,505 quarters) 376 > 143, 741 



Calves, carcasses 84,594 7,386,672 



Sheep, carcasses 3,113 106,422 



Swine, carcasses 9, 105 1, 140, 799 



Beef, fresh 36,587 



Veal, fresh 



Mutton, fresh. 

 Pork, fresh. 



Cured meats ' 



Lard 



Sausage , 



Miscellaneous (scrapple, tripe, headcheese, etc.) 



39, 738 

 42,296 

 224,977 

 539,668 

 140,009 

 119,744 

 36,367 



Total 97,188 9,957,020 



INSPECTION OF IMPORTED MEATS. 



The following table shows the inspection of imported meats and 

 meat-food products for the fiscal year. The quantity of such im- 

 ports was less than half of that for the preceding year : 



