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M. R. TRUMBOWEE. 
two carloads of cattle to Chicago, and the inspector held four 
of them for post-mortem examination. Three of these I 
passed in the slaughter-house, and condemned the remaining 
one. I found one affected internally, having actinomycotic 
tumors in the liver. On the 23d day of July, last year, the 
State Board of Live-Stock Commissioners, in connection with 
the Live-Stock Exchange at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 
adopted rules and regulations for the examination of all cattle 
that come into these yards that manifested any suspicion of 
being affected with the disease. The State put an Assistant 
State Veterinarian there, whose duty it is each day to ex¬ 
amine, at once, all cattle that are reported to him by the 
various commission firms. He has four men with him to 
assist in tagging, driving, quarantining, and keeping the 
records. From the twenty-third day of July, last year, until 
the first day of September, this year, he examined under this 
rule, 9,295 head of cattle; of this number he passed 6,578. 
Cattle that he passes have a passed tag put in their ear, as 
evidence to any purchaser that the animal is fit for any mar-, 
ket purpose, hence the owner obtains full value for such an 
animal, while before this rule went into effect the majority 1 
of these cattle were purchased by the professional lump-jaw 
dealers at less than one-half their actual value; 2,717 were 
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held for post-mortem examination. All of these I inspected 
at the time of slaughter, and condemned out of this number, 
2,004, leaving a balance of 713 to go on the market as healthy 1 
beef. Out of this number that I condemned in the slaughter¬ 
house, 127 were condemned for being tuberculous; 50 on ac¬ 
count of being excessively emaciated ; 18 were affected with] 
cancer; 9 in an advanced stage of pregnancy; 9 that had 
gangrenous abscesses ; 13 were condemned lor excessive bruis¬ 
ing. The State Board also has an agent at the East St. Louis 
yards, and during this same period he condemned and killed 
forty-three head. This system has proved eminently satis¬ 
factory to the shippers, the commission men, and the State 
Health Authorities, and I believe the State Board of Live- 
Stock Commissioners of Illinois have reason to congratulate 
themselves on the efficient work that they have inaugurated. 
