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will serve to discourage shipping from infected 

 herds, provided a tagging system is adopted which 

 will place the losses due to condemnations where 

 they belong on the man who ships the hogs. 



The second object should be to prevent the sale 

 of carcasses of infected hogs that reach market 

 despite efforts to keep them away. In other 

 words, carcasses that obviously are carriers of 

 hog cholera virus should not be sold except in the 

 form of cooked products, for hog cholera will be 

 with us as long as the practice continues. We 

 have already mentioned the present deficiency of 

 the federal meat inspection regulations as they 

 apply to this particular point. Whether this de- 

 ficiency is due to lack of authority or to failure to 

 use authority already granted, the effect is the 

 same many carcasses that show lesions usually 

 considered characteristic of hog cholera are still 

 allowed to pass inspection. 



It is deceptive to assert, as the regulations do, 

 that these lesions are sometimes due to causes 

 other than hog cholera. Granting, as we freely 

 do, that this is true we still maintain that it is 

 exceptional to such an extent that it should re- 

 ceive scant consideration in the judgment of car- 

 casses that come from lots which contain hogs 

 suffering with cholera when they reach the yards. 

 Hogs that come from infected herds and that show 



