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M. R. TRUMBOWER. 
This work has been continued with varied success and under 
many obstacles to the present time. Agents of the State Boaid 
of Live Stock Commissioners have been placed in these yards, 
with instructions and authority to arrest all cattle that were 
plainly affected with this disease. All such animals were locked 
up in quarantine pens set aside within the yards for this purpose. 
On each Saturday the State Veterinarian examined all the cat¬ 
tle that had been quarantined during the week, and condemned 
as unfit for human food all that were badly diseased, and held 
for post-mortem examination (at the time of slaughter) all such 
as were doubtful of being fit to go on the market as healthy beef. 
For the year ending October 31, 1889, 831 cattle were 
quarantined for examination, of which 773 were condemned as 
unfit for human food, and were tanked by the City Meat In¬ 
spector of Chicago. 
For the year ending October 31, 1891, 2,259 were arrested 
of which 2,136 were condemned. 
For the year ending October 31, 1892, 2,225 were examined 
and 1,759 °f them condemned. 
For the year ending October 31, 1893, 1,153 were examined 
and 1,006 condemned as unfit for human food. 
During the years 1892, ’93, and ’94, professional “Lumpy- 
Jaw” buyers became so numerous as to make the work of 
arresting affected cattle very difficult, for they were favored by 
many of the Commission firms in their nefarious traffic, who re¬ 
ported to them all such cattle in their consignments and pre¬ 
ferred to sell to them in preference to having them inspected by 
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the State officials. 
The contracts for the slaughter of these quarantined cattle 
were awarded by the Lump-jaw Committee of the Chicago Live 
Stock Exchange to parties at suspiciously high prices. This 
naturally created a suspicion that in order to realize any profit 
out of these contracts the meat was being smuggled into market 
after being dressed, in violation of the city ordinances, although 
the city meat inspectors had charge of the tanking of all con¬ 
demned cattle. 
