CHAPTER XXI. 

 Inspection, 6overnnient and State. 



The inspection of live stock and riieat products, starting 

 with a small beginning some twenty years ago, has gradually 

 risen to vast proportions, embracing not only the inspection of 

 live stock entering the United States, but exercising a rigid in- 

 spection of export animals and their products, a careful examin- 

 ation of inter-state shipments, and at the large market centers 

 of the country, an unexcelled stock-yard inspection, where the 

 diseased and crippled stock after being examined on arrival at 

 the yards, are tagged by inspectors and killed under their per- 

 sonal supervision. When if unfit for human consumption the 

 carcasses are immediately tanked. The results from the tank- 

 age being converted into fertilizers, axle grease, etc., permitting 

 only the healthy to enter the channels of consumption. The 

 Government inspection of sheep may be briefly stated as f ollov/s : 



First. As regards their importations into the United States. 

 On arriving at the port of entry, after complying with the cus- 

 toms regulations, they, if they should be importations from other 

 countries than Canada, are placed in a suitable quarantine sta- 

 tion, where they remain for a stated period of time (fifteen days) 

 subject to daily inspections by the veterinaryinspector in charge. 

 Should they at the termination of that period prove to be in a 

 healthy condition they are permitted shipment to their destina- 

 tion in the interior, and vice versa, should any evidences of dis- 

 ease appear among such animals while in quarantine they are 

 immediately slaughtered and the carcasses destroyed or rendered 

 in compliance with the regulations. Sheep imported from Can- 

 ada, however, are admitted under special regv^lations common 



