THE DISPOSITION OE ACTINOMYCOTIC CATTLE IN THE UNION STOCK YARDS. 563 
Cattle passed in Held for p. m. 
July 28 — 89 
the yards. 
4 4 
35 
examination. 
44 
12 
Aug. 4—122 
4 4 
54 
4 4 
15 
“ II — 99 
4 4 
58 
44 
16 
O 
W 
I 
00 
w 
4 4 
89 
4 4 
3° 
“ 25 — 76 
4 4 
5° 
4 4 
15 
Sept. 1 — 88 
44 
52 
4 4 
1 7 
Total, 644 
2 C 
io 5 
Passed p.m. 
u 
4 4 
4 4 
4 4 
4 4 
Condemned and • 
23 
tanked. 
4 4 
39 
4 4 
42 
4 4 
59 
44 
35 
4 4 
35 
4 4 
233 
Twenty-four were condemned for being tuberculous — 2 
steers, 20 cows, 2 bulls, and 2 were condemned as cancerous. 
The receipts of cattle at the Union Stock Yards during this 
time were as follows : 
For the week ending July 28 th 
4 4 
4 4 
4 4 
44 
44 
4 4 
44 
4 4 
4 4 
4 4 
Aug. 4 th 
“ nth 
“ 18 th 
25th 
“ 31st. 
50 , 7^4 
69,959 
6i,753 
64,893 
68,948 
65,123 
By this we see that about one-quarter of one per cent, of the 
cattle received in the yards were in any degree affected. 
Here m six weeks time the shippers got the benefit of 644 
examinations of cattle that were very slightly affected ; they 
" ere, therefore, enabled to sell them at their full market value 
as healthy cattle. Under the old regime the lump-jaw buyers 
would have purchased at least four-fifths of them at one-half 
their market value. 
To make the comparison clear between the old and the new 
system, I will present a report of the arrests from January 1st to 
July 23d. 
I assed in yards. Held for p. m. examinat’n 
73i 794 
Passed p. m. examinat’n. Condemn’d. 
229 565 
We have a complete system for keeping the records of all 
animals examined in the yard, and I make a written report of 
the lesions found at the post-mortem examinations—the passed 
cattle, as well as those that I condemn. In condemning cattle I 
