BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTEY. 



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The following amounts of meat and meat food products were con- 

 demned on reinspection during the fiscal year because of having be- 

 come sour, tainted, putrid, unclean, rancid, or otherwise unwhole- 

 some: Beef, 9,566.199 pounds; pork, 9,273,124 pounds; mutton, 137,- 

 598 pounds; veal, 54,616 pounds; goat meat, 271 pounds; total, 

 19,031,808 pounds. For the past two years there has been a steady 

 and marked decrease in condemnations for these causes as a result of 

 continued improvement in sanitary conditions and in methods of pre- 

 paring and handling the products. 



INTERCHANGE OF MEATS BETWEEN INSPECTED ESTABLISHMENTS. 



Considerable quantities of meats and meat food products that have 

 been inspected and passed are transferred between inspected estab- 

 lishments, this traffic being closely supervised and the meats and 

 products identified by means of marks and seals. During the fiscal 

 year there were transferred in this manner 2,734,019,943 pounds of 

 meats and meat food products, part of which was contained in 16,073 

 sealed cars and 21,169 sealed wagons. 



MEATS AND PRODUCTS CERTIFIED FOR EXPORT. 



The amounts of meat and meat food products certified by the 

 Bureau for export are shown in the following table, being a decrease 

 of 30.7 per cent as compared with the previous fiscal year: 



Inspection certificates issued for export of meat and meat food products, fiscal 



year 1910. 



There were also issued 2,174 "inedible product" certificates, cover- 

 ing exports of 17,676,942 pounds of such inedible products as hoofs, 

 horns, casings, bladders, bungs, etc. 



IMPORTED OLEO STEARIN. 



During the fiscal year 23,416,479 pounds of compound and 118,300 

 pounds of oleomargarin were manufactured from imported oleo 

 stearin at five inspected establishments located at three seaport cities 

 (Jersey City, New Orleans, and New York). This imported product 

 is kept under lock and key while in these establishments and no 

 domestic meat food product is permitted to be mixed with it. The 

 finished product is also kept under lock and is promptly loaded into 

 vessels and exported without certificates, stamps, or other marks of 

 federal meat inspection. 



EXEMPTION FROM INSPECTION. 



The provisions of the meat-inspection law requiring inspection do 

 not apply to animals slaughtered by farmers on the farm nor to 

 retail butchers and dealers. The Department requires that such 



