CHAPTER XXVII 



BACK TO GOVERNMENT SERVICE 



In the fall of 1912 I was once more 

 appointed to a federal position, having taken 

 the Civil Service examination again. 



This time I was put on post-morten work at 

 the Union Stock Yards, Chicago. 



I found that a great change for the better 

 had been wrought in this work; in fact, post- 

 mortem work as performed in 1904 when I 

 was in the service the first time could not be 

 compared with the work as it now is. 



The present-day inspection is real, and aside 

 from some local irregularities, for which the 

 inspector in charge was to blame, I could see 

 nothing but good in the work. I can not say too 

 much in praise of the work performed by the 

 veterinary inspector doing postmortem work 

 today ; in fact, some of the routine work done day 

 after day by these men is a most wonderful exhi- 

 bition of skill and expertness. 



I remained in Chicago about four months at 

 this work, when I resigned and organized a pro- 

 prietary medicine company. 



I operated this enterprise very successfully for 

 myself and stockholders, and sold my interest in 

 it the next spring at a good profit. 



When I had disposed of my holdings in the 

 medicine company I made application for rein- 

 statement in the Bureau of Animal Industry, 



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