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have been withheld from federal inspection be- 

 cause of suspicious indications generally do, gain 

 access to the local trade in such free states. The 

 following paragraphs relate only to the supervi- 

 sion by the bureau. 



143. Antemortem Examination. Upon the pres- 

 entation of satisfactory evidence with an applica- 

 tion for the admission of the products of a slaugh- 

 tering establishment into the interstate and for- 

 eign commerce, an inspector from the bureau is 

 assigned to take supervision of the establishment, 

 with needed assistants. All animals designated 

 for slaughter must be first inspected antemortem. 

 Those found diseased are condemned, so marked, 

 and tanked without the removal of the tag. ' ' Sus- 

 pects" may be retained for further examination, 

 or disposed of according to circumstances. But 

 suspects must be slaughtered at the establishment 

 where inspected, unless released for pregnancy, 

 or similar temporary disability. Neither suspects 

 nor condemned animals are to be slaughtered with 

 those which have passed examination. So far as 

 possible where hogs have been condemned as sus- 

 pects, other hogs of the same lot must be slaugh- 

 tered separately from those passed antemortem. 

 Animals showing suspicious symptoms of rabies, 

 tetanus, milk fever, or railroad sickness, or pre- 

 sented for antemortem examination in a dying 

 condition, must be marked ''condemned," and so 

 disposed of. 



144. Postmortem Examination. All carcasses 

 are carefully inspected, postmortem, for evidence 

 of disease; and for this purpose all parts of a 

 slaughtered animal must be kept together, and 



