44 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Cattle, 39,402 carcasses, 123,909 parts; calves, 7,654 carcasses, 781 

 parts; hogs, 59,477 carcasses, 877,528 parts; sheep, 10,789 carcasses, 

 7,394 parts; goats, 61 carcasses. Tuberculosis was the cause of 

 nearly 47 per cent of the condemnations of adult cattle and over 96 

 per cent of the condemnations of hogs. The inspected animals fur- 

 nished fully 10,000,000,000 pounds of meat. There was condemned on 

 reinspection 21,073,577 pounds of meat and meat food products that 

 had become sour, tainted, or otherwise unfit for food since the inspec- 

 tion at the time of slaughter. This amount included over 3,000,000 

 pounds condemned at one establishment as the result of a fire. 



Inspection certificates issued for exports of meat and meat food 

 products during the year covered 975,066,006 pounds, including 

 all products, fresh and preserved. This was an increase of over 

 150,000,000 pounds compared with 1910. Inspections for the Navy 

 during 1911 aggregated 11,112,060 pounds. 



During the year 25,818 samples of various products were examined 

 in the meat inspection laboratories for the purpose of detecting pro- 

 hibited preservatives or coloring matter, adulterants, and unwhole- 

 someness of various kinds, and passing upon the purity of condi- 

 ments, water supplies, etc. The use of prohibited preservatives and 

 coloring matters at inspected establishments appears to be exceed- 

 ingly rare, and in the very few cases in which such preservatives were 

 found their presence was evidently due to ignorance or carelessness. 

 The most frequent violations of the regulations consisted in the use 

 of cereal substances in sausages without proper declaration on the 

 labels. 



HORSE BREEDING. 



Good progress is being made in the breeding of carriage horses in 

 Colorado in cooperation with the State Agricultural Experiment 

 Station. At the close of the fiscal year 1911 the stud consisted of 82 

 animals (34 males and 48 females). The males comprised 11 stal- 

 lions two years old and upwards, 11 yearlings, and 12 weanlings, 

 while the females included 25 aged mares, 5 four-year-olds, 3 three- 

 year-olds, 4 two-year-olds, and 11 yearlings and weanlings. The an- 

 nual culling of inferior individuals is showing its results, and the 

 foals show better quality each year. During the year the board of 

 survey condemned 8 animals, which were sold at auction. 



The breeding of Morgan horses on the Government farm at Mid- 

 dlebury, Vt., continues with promising results. There were 65 head 

 in this stud at the close of the year, namely, 17 stallions, 42 mares, 

 and 6 geldings. Five out of a lot of 10 mares purchased last year 

 were bred in Vermont, and are good representatives of the old-fash- 

 ioned Morgan lines which have proved so valuable in mating with 

 General Gates, the stallion at the head of the stud. The five-year-old 



