BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



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The inspection of meats and meat food products prepared and 

 processed under the supervision of bureau employees is shown in the 

 following table. This is a record of work clone and not a statement 

 of the actual quantity of products prepared. The same product is 

 sometimes duplicated by being reported in different stages of prepa- 

 ration under more than one heading. 



Meat and meat food products prepared and processed under inspection. 



The quantity of meat and meat food products condemned on re- 

 inspection because of having become sour, tainted, putrid, unclean, 

 rancid, or otherwise unwholesome, was as follows: Beef, 6,920,972 

 pounds; pork, 10,818,148 pounds; mutton, 114,741 pounds; veal, 

 42,412 pounds; goat meat, 1,094 pounds; total, 17,897,367 pounds. 



Market inspection was continued at 44 cities, the same number 

 as in the preceding year. This inspection is conducted at the public 

 markets of these cities in order that interstate deliveries may be 

 made in accordance with the Federal meat-inspection law and reg- 

 ulations. 



MEAT PRODUCTS CERTIFIED FOR EXPORT. 



For the export of meat and meat food products there were issued 

 124,694 certificates, covering 510,198,401 pounds of beef and beef 

 products, 1,373,321,186 pounds of pork and pork products, and 

 12,344,349 pounds of mutton, a total of 1,895,863,936 pounds. This is 

 an increase of 36 per cent over the fiscal year 1915 and an increase 

 of 110 per cent over the fiscal year 1914. 



In addition there were issued 752 certificates covering the export 

 of 10,335,646 pounds of inedible animal products. 



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 



