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^tion of over |250,000. Now, I was told bj a stock breeder recently 

 that the inspection of the large packing houses is becoming more 

 and more stringent. He told me that Armour's men had orders 

 to condemn any steer was not absolutely perfect. What difference 

 does that make? Just this: before the meat inspection law they 

 could ship this meat anywhere, but now they dare not use it for 

 interstate or exp6rt purposes. So they ship the steers that will 

 not do for export trade to a firm that is doing business entirely 

 within the state in which it is located, and cannot, therefore, be put 

 under Federal control, because it does not an export or interstate 

 business. There are a great many packing houses in Pennsylvania; 

 under Federal inspection the buyer for a firm doing export or inter- 

 state busines would not take any consignment that does not fully 

 pass requirements, but the man who does business within the state 

 alone can do it, and does do it. So this law is not all that it is 

 intended to be and the appropriation of |250,000 does not touch 

 the small fellow, and he will continue to do business in his own 

 way unless this law of the United States government is supple- 

 mented by state meat inspection laws. The people of the United 

 States want inspected meats, or they do not want them. If they 

 do not want them there is no reason why the Federal govern- 

 ment should spend 13,000,000 a year for inspecting their meat. If 

 they do want them it is necessary to take action in the several 

 states, and then use the appropriations for enforcing these laws. 



''THE GOLDEN HOOF." 



By MR. JOSEPH WING, Mecltanicsburg, O. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am glad to have an 

 opportunity to talk to you about the sheep. It is a good subject, and 

 we will see what we can make out of it in the time before us. Some 

 times I write my speeches and read them, but it was very discourag- 

 ing to see people grow tired before I got through, so I have given it 

 up, and when I see that they become tired of the subject, I stop 

 talking. 



I am going to outline for you the kind of husbandry that will pay 

 the small farmer in Pennsylvania. The kind of sheep ranching that 

 is done in the West will not do here. There the man who has only 

 10,000 ewes does not count for much in the business. 



Now, the man with 10,000 ewes cannot lamb until the grass grows. 

 That will not be before May or June, and there will be more lambs 

 born in June than in May. Of course, he has a little anxious time 

 while the lambs are coming, but there will be a man with every 

 thousand sheep, and besides seeing that they do not suffer from the 

 temperature at night, and that they are protected from wet weather, 

 they do not want to be disturbed very much during this time. 

 After the lambs are born it is a little' easier time then, but the 



