MEAT AND MILK INSPECTION. 
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a harmless dip for cattle whereby the tick of Texas fever can 
be destroyed. 
Of course all this work necessitated the outlay of thousands 
of dollars, but here is one forcible illustration of a penny spent 
is a dollar saved. With an average cost of less than one cent 
apiece for inspection, who can value the saving to the people? 
Many lives were thus saved, to say nothing of the suffering and 
distress that was greatly decreased. 
W e demand that the meat sent to foreign countries shall be 
inspected ; while we—yes, you and I, are compelled to eat the 
uninspected meat. There are many inconsiderate and unscru¬ 
pulous butchers who stand ready to buy that which cannot be 
put on the foreign market, and prepare it for the home market; 
and they will do that thing just as long as there is no one ap¬ 
pointed whose business it is to see that condemned meat is put 
in the tank with the offal and made into fertilizer. 
The immediate charge of inspection is given to those veteri¬ 
narians who have entered the service by a competitive examina¬ 
tion. It has been proven, the persons obtained from such 
examination, one of the requirements of which is that they must 
be graduates of a regularly recognized veterinary college, are 
more competent and efficient than non-professional men. The 
inspectors were placed in the classified service in 1894. 
There are certain diseases among animals that render the 
flesh positively dangerous to use as food—such as anthrax, sep¬ 
tic conditions, malignant oedema, and foot and mouth diseases. 
Others may not be positively dangerous, but should be used 
with suspicion, as tuberculosis, actinomycosis, Texas fever, 
swine plague, and any disease that causes a rise of temperature. 
Others although not dangerous to use as food would be con¬ 
sidered very loathsome, as those that are drowned, smothered, 
the unborn, females in parturient state, and flesh, containing 
parasites. 
All animals should be inspected previous to slaughter, as 
many conditions are there found that would not be detected in 
the carcass. Fever, fatigue, exhaustion, starvation and excite- 
