340 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 

 MEATS AND PRODUCTS CEUTIFIED FOE EXPOBT. 



The quantities of meat and meat food products certified by the 

 bureau for export are shown in the following table, being an increase 

 of 19.4 per cent over the fiscal year 1911: 



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



year 1912. 



There were also issued 2,599 " inedible product " certificates, cov- 

 ering exports of 2'J,()o 8,627 pounds of such inedible products as hoofs, 

 horns, casings, bladders, bungs, et«. 



EXEMPTION FROM INSPECTION. 



The provisions of the meat-inspection law requiring inspection 

 do not appl}' to animals slaughtered by farmers on the farm nor to 

 retail butchers and dealers. The department requires that such butch- 

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

 m interstate commerce, shall first obtain certificates of exemption, but 

 no such requirement is made of farmers. The number of certificates 

 of exemption outstanding at the close of the fiscal year was 2,334, 

 as against 2,546 at the close of the previous fiscal year, a decrease 

 of 212 certificates. During the j^ear it was found necessary to call 

 in and cancel for various causes 825 certificates of exemption. In 

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

 when business was resumed or when insanitary conditions had been 

 corrected. 



During the past fiscal year 124,859 shipments were made by retail 

 butchers and dealers holding certificates of exemption, as against 

 116,536 shipments in 1911. The products so shipped in the fiscal year 

 1912 were as follows: 



Shipments made under certificates of exemption from inspection during the fiscal 



year 1912. 



Kind of products. 



Beef, carcasses 



quarters).- 



Calves, carcasses... 

 Sheep, carcasses... 

 Swine, carcasses... 



Beef, fresh. 



Veal, fresh 



Mutton, fresh 



Pork, fresh , 



(1,313 



Number. 



328 



69,750 



7,391 



1,729 



Pounds. 



156,787 

 5,723,306 



291,599 



128,606 

 8,980,618 



611,723 

 1,966,982 



576,728 



Kind of products. 



Cured meats 



Lard 



Sausage 



Miscellaneous (scrapple, 

 tripe, headcheese, beef 

 fat, etc.) 



Total. 



Number. 



79,198 



Pounds. 



1,586,485 

 136,199 

 185,917 



148,887 



20,493,837 



INSPECTIONS FOB THE NAVY. 



Upon request of the Navy Department, occasional inspections of 

 meats and meat food products were made for the Navy during the 

 year, to determine whether they conformed to the Navy specifica- 



