BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



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MEAT AND PKODUCTS CERTIFIED FOB EXPOKT. 



The following products were certified for export under certificates 

 and stamps: Beef and beef products, 475,572,431 pounds; mutton 

 and mutton products, 3,944,658 pounds; pork and pork products, 

 1,473,570,220 pounds; a total of 1,953,093,309 pounds. In addition 

 there were issued 430 certificates covering the export of 6,370,434 

 f)Ounds 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 a farm 

 nor to retail butchers and dealers supplying their customers. It is re- 

 quired, however, that the retail butchers and dealers, in order to ship 

 meat and meat food products in interstate or foreign commerce, shall 

 first obtain certificates of exemption. The number of exemption 

 certificates outstanding at the close of the fiscal year was 2,456, an 

 increase of 61 over the preceding year. During the year 138 certifi- 

 cates were canceled, 112 on account of the dealers retiring from 

 business or ceasing to make shipments, 25 for violations of the 

 regulations, and one dealer was granted inspection. 



During the fiscal year 67,779 shipments were made by retail 

 dealers and butchers holding certificates of exemption, as compared 

 with 79,629 shipments during the fiscal year 1916. The shipments of 

 the vear covered products as shown in the following table : 



Shipments hy retail dealers and butchers under certificates of exemption from 



inspection. 



Product. 



Boef, carcasses (2,801 quar- 

 ters) 



Calves, carcasses 



Sheep, carcasses 



Swine, carcasses 



Boef, fresh 



Voal, fresh 



Mutton, f resli 



Number. 



701 



30,034 



1,676 



893 



Pounds. 



286,^11 



3,116,911 



71,126 



97,647 



1,615,599 



237,411 



327,043 



Product. 



Number. 



Pork, fresh 



Cured meats 



I/ard 



Sausage 



Miscellanerus (scrapple, 

 tripe, head.heese, etc.) . . . 



Total. 



39,301 



Pounds. 



288,796 



472,749 



38,092 



95,414 



51,198 



6, 698, 597 



During the fiscal year 87,486 interstate shipments were made of 

 meats and meat food products from animals slaughtered by farmers 

 on the farm, as compared with 89,579 shipments during the fiscal 

 year 1916. The following table shows the products covered by these 

 shipments : 



Shipments of farm-slaughter products under exemption from inspection. 



Product. 



Beef, carcasses (4,738 Cjuar- 



ters) 



Cah es, carcasses 



Shoep, carcasses 



Swine, carcasses 



Beef, fresh 



Veal, frf>sh 



Mutton, fresh 



Number. Pounds. 



1,181 



109, 701 



4,015 



20,400 



420,646 



9,850,120 



172, 000 



2,050, 2S3 



36,826 



72,068 



3,257 



Product. 



Pork, fresh 



Cured meats 



Lard 



Sausage 



Mis'^ellanerus (scrappie, 

 tripe, headcheese, etc.).., 



Number. 



Total. 



Pounds. 



214,658 

 934,346 

 242,255 

 116,127 



28,198 



136,020 14,146,842 



