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ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



There were also issued 2,836 "inedible product" certificates cover- 

 ing exports of 25,553,053 pounds of such inedible products as hoofs, 

 horns, casings, bladders, bungs, etc. 



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 

 butchers and dealers, in order to ship meats and meat food products 

 in interstate commerce, shall first obtain certificates of exemption, 

 but no such requirement is made of farmers. The number of certifi- 

 cates of exemption outstanding at the close of the fiscal year was 

 2,546, as against 2,428 at the close of the previous fiscal year — an 

 increase of 118 certificates. During the year it was found necessary 

 to call in and cancel for various causes 405 certificates of exemption. 

 In many of these cases, however, the certificates were reissued later 

 when busmess was resumed or when insanitary conditions had been 

 corrected. 



During the past fiscal year retail butchers and dealers, shipping 

 under certificates of exemption, have been requested to give a more 

 detailed description of the meats and meat food products shipped, so 

 that it is now possible to show the shipments of carcasses by species 

 and to give the separate amounts of the different classes of fresh 

 meats shipped. During the year 116,536 shipments were made, 

 covering products as shown in the following table: 



Shipments made under certificates of exemption from inspection during the fiscal year 1911. 



Kind of products. 



Beef, quarters 



Calves, carcasses. 

 Sheep, carcasses. 

 Swine, carcasses. 



Beef, fresh 



Veal, fresh 



Mutton, fresh 



Pork, fresh 



Number. 



2,629 



77,667 



5,324 



1,477 



Pounds. 



252, 945 

 6,3a3,152 



202, 623 



146,641 

 8,209,576 



593.475 

 1,672,424 



547,969 



Kind of products. 



Cured meats 



Lard 



Sausage 



Miscellaneous (scrapple, 

 tripe, head cheese, beef 

 fat, etc.) 



Total. 



Number. 



87,097 



Pounds. 



1,308,268 



88, 977 



178,657 



253, 170 



19,817,877 



INSPECTIONS FOR THE NAVY. 



Upon request of the Navy Department occasional inspections of 

 meats and moat food products were made for the Navy during the year. 

 The meats and products inspected aggregated 11,112,060 pounds, of 

 which 405,459 pounds were rejected. Rejections were made on 

 account of the sour, slimy, tainted, or putrid condition of the product, 

 for failure to comply with the specifications regarding weight or the 

 amount of fat, and because of tne substitution of buck, bull, heifer, 

 or cow meat for the meat of wethers and steers. There were also 

 inspected for the Navy 68,682 dozen eggs, 17,962 dozen of wliich 

 were rejected. 



CONTROL OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. 



TEXAS FEVER. 



The number of cattle shipped from the quarantined area to northern 

 markets during the quarantine season of 1910 was 1,065,119, being a 

 decrease of 329,539 head, or 23.6 per cent, as compared with the pre- 



