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those who desired an inspection had it, on account of the small ap- 

 propriation, and some who desired it were not able to get it. The 

 new law provides that all who do an inter-state business shall have 

 inspection. "With respect to retail butehers and dealers supplying 

 customers, and animals slaughtered on the farm by farmers, these 

 exceptions are made on account of the tremendous difficulty it 

 would entail in inspecting small houses and the slaughtering on the 

 farms. 



I am fortunate in having with me some figures to show you some- 

 thing of the magnitude of the work during the past fiscal year. 

 There .were in all 50,953,000 animals inspected on post-mortem 

 examinations, of which there were 7,593,000 beef cattle, 1,757,000 

 calves, 9,672,000 sheep, 31,639,000 swine, and 52,000 goats ; these I 

 suppose went in with the sheep. 



This work was conducted at 708 different establishments, in 186 

 different towns, and required the employment of 2,290 persons. All 

 final post-mortems are conducted by veterinarians, who are assisted 

 in part by experienced employes. The final passing on whether a 

 carcass shall be condemned or passed, is in the hands of veter- 

 inarians. 



The greatest cause for condemnation in the case of cattle and 

 sheep is tuberculosis. .39 per cent of the cattle were condemned for 

 tuberculosis; .25 per cent in whole, and .14 per cent in part. Of the 

 hogs there was 1.04 per cent condemned for tuberculosis. .206 per 

 cent were condemned in whole, and in .834 per cent in part. There 

 were, of course, a very large number of animals that were slightly 

 affected, which were passed entire. Now, these figures represent the 

 number condemned entirely or some portion of them, in consequence 

 of the diseas§. 



Of the total number condemned of cattle 70 per cent were con- 

 demned on account of tuberculosis ; the number of hogs condemned 

 was 62 per cent, on account of tuberculosis. Of course, the cost of 

 this has not been fully felt by the producer as yet. The one who 

 sends in a lot of cattle and hogs,- — a very large proportion of them 

 are affected with the disease and condemned, — is to-day receiving 

 the same amount practically for his stock, as the man who sends 

 in entirely healthy cattle. So far, there has been no discrimination 

 made between the breeder of healthy cattle and diseased cattle — you 

 are paying for it. You are familiar with the story of the traveling 

 man who lost his overcoat out on a trip, and he purchased a new one 

 and put it in his expense bill. When the bill was presented to the 

 house, it was promptly cut out. In his next trip he was unfortunate 



