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you give us something on the question of meat inspection, as you 
have just been doing some National meat inspection ? 
Dr. Salmon : If there is any light I can throw on the subject 
I would be happy to do so; but I hardly know what points the 
gentlemen are interested in. If any care to ask me any questions, 
I will be glad to tell them anything I know about it. 
Dr. A. H. Baker: I would like to ask what is the status of 
the meat inspection of American cattle in England ? 
Dr. Salmon : I found that to be rather peculiar in certain re¬ 
spects. There are a large number of cattle landed at three or four 
different places where they have large cattle sheds and docks and 
suitable accommodation for the cattle, but they have but one in¬ 
spector at each place where there are sometimes a thousand cattle 
landed in a day. The inspector stands on the dock and looks at 
the cattle as they come in from the ship and if he sees anything 
the matter with them as they pass, such cattle are run off into a 
pen by themselves for future inspection. That is about the end 
of professional inspection, although I think there is an arrange¬ 
ment between the inspectors and the butchers that in case any 
marked defects are found, they are to be reported. If there is 
such an arrangement, it is more or less sub rosa , and I do not know 
to what extent it can be relied upon. It struck me that the in¬ 
spection made over there of our cattle by English inspectors was 
not very thorough, although perhaps as critical as we would care 
to have it made. 
Of course, as you know, the Department of Agriculture has 
succeeded in making arrangements with the British Government 
by which we have placed three inspectors over there, one at 
London, one at Liverpool and one at Glasgow. They are there of 
course, only by the courtesy of the British Government; we have no 
right to send men there to make an inspection on British soil, but 
it was done by our Government because there had been a great 
many reports of pleuro-pneumonia being found among American 
cattle on the other side. Some of these reports were made in re¬ 
gard to cattle shipped from parts of the country where we had no 
evidence of there being any contagious pleuro-pneumonia, and it 
seemed very desirable that our Government should have these men 
