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ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



INSPECTION OF MEAT AND niODUCTS. 



The inspection and supervision of meals and products prepared 

 and processed are shown in the following table, which is a record only 

 of supervisory work performed and not a statement of the aggregate 

 quantity of products prepared. The same product is sometimes 

 duplicated by being reported in different stages of preparation under 

 more than one heading. 



Meat and meat food products prepared and processed under inspection. 



The following quantities of meat and meat food products were con- 

 demned on reinspection on account of having become sour, tainted, 

 putrid, unclean, rancid, or otherwise unwholesome: Beef, 15,898,479 

 pounds : pork 14,113,246 pounds ; mutton, 152,981 pounds ; veal, 116,- 

 016 pounds; goat meat, 42,598 pounds; total, 30,323,220 pounds. 



MAKKET INSPECTION. 



Market inspection was begun during the fiscal year at two cities, 

 making a total of 45 cities at which this inspection is maintained in 

 order that interstate deliveries of meats and products may be made 

 therefrom. 



MEAT AND PlIODUCTS CEKTIIIED POR EXPOKT. 



The folloAving products were certified for export: Beef and beef 

 products, 714,706,213 pounds ; mutton and mutton products, 3,297,395 

 pounds; pork and pork products, 2,774,067,187 pounds, a total of 

 3,492,070,795 pounds. In addition 536 certificates were issued cover- 

 ing the export of 15,071,507 pounds of inedible animal products. 



EXEMPTION FEOM INSPECTION. 



The provisions of the meat-inspection law requiring inspection 

 usually do not apply to animals slaughtered by a farmer on a farm 

 nor to retail butchers and dealers supplying their customers. The 

 retail butchers and dealers, however, in order to ship meat and meat 

 food products in interstate of foreign commerce, are required first to 

 obtain certificates of exemption. The number of exemption certifi- 

 cates outsta^fiding at the close of the fiscal year was 2,551, an increase 

 of 43 over the preceding year. During the year 103 certificates Avere 

 canceled, 99 on account of the dealers retiring from business or ceasing 



