XII REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE. 



was duly g-ranted by Congress, for the purchase of sites and the erec- 

 tion of not less thun six buildings during the current fiscal year. The 

 places selected for these new buildings are Yellowstone Park, Wyo. ; 

 Amarillo, Tex.; Modena, Utah; Key West, Fla. ; Sand Ke}^ Fla.,and 

 South Farallone Island, California. Owing to the difficult}^ in pro- 

 viding sites for the buildings at Amarillo and Modena, it will hardly 

 be practicable to erect buildings there before next spring. 



The crop service of the Bureau will be dealt with in a special report 

 called for by Congress. 



BtTREAU OF ANIMAL INDTTSTRY. 



Inspection Service for Export Animals. 



The act of Cong-ress of August 30, 1890, provided for the inspection 

 by the Bureau of Animal Industry of meats for exportation, and this 

 was supplemented on March 3, 1891, bj^ an act providing "for the 

 inspection of live cattle, hogs, and the carcasses and products thereof 

 which are the subjects of interstate commerce, and for other purposes." 

 This law was amended bj^ an act which took effect July 1, 1902, pro- 

 viding for the inspection of dairy products for export. Under these 

 laws important service to the live-stock industry has been performed. 



The total number of ante-mortem inspections was 59,158,61:8, being' 

 an increase over the previous year of 2,789,338. The cost of these 

 inspections was 1.08 cents each. The number of post-mortem inspec- 

 tions was 38,903,625. The carcasses condemned numbered 61,980, 

 besides 17,445 parts of carcasses. 



The meat-inspection tag or brand was placed upon 19,694,665 quar- 

 ters, 250,141 pieces, and 3,820 sacks of beef, 7,419,287 carcasses of 

 sheep, 554,016 carcasses of calves, 1,253,083 carcasses of hogs, and 

 793,471 sacks of pork. 



The meat-inspection stamp was affixed to packages of meat products 

 that had received the ordinary inspection as follows: 7,166,490 of beef, 

 39,229 of mutton, 8 of veal, 15,835,520 of pork, and 638 of horseflesh, 

 a total of 23,041,885. 



The number of cars sealed containing inspected meat products for 

 shipment to official al)attoirs and other places was 64,730. 



The number of certificates of ordinary inspection issued for meat 

 products for export, exclusive of horseflesh, was 32,744. Of ])eef 

 there were 1,571,305 quarters, 19,728 pieces, 3,845 bags, and 1,582,549 

 packages, with a weight of 416,990,762 pounds; of mutton there were 

 85 carcasses and 26,942 packages, weighing 1,145,248 pounds; of pork 

 there were 94,962 carcasses and 658,139 packages, weighing 188,360,011 

 pounds. These figures show a decrease from the previous year of 



