Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 10, 1901, Page 16

government from being placed before the con them when asked to sit American beef government from the packing house us he s in the of customer intemortem Animal Industry does its and yet it 18 one t thoroughly or headquarters federal butlding South Omaha his supervision, says microscopists examinations, eivil service having served a probationary months, have become permanently appointed subject to the rules, commissioner period of six Plenty to Do, “It 18 the duty of the inspector yards at the time they ar Work of Bureau of Animal Industry diseased animals are condemned, tagged and removed to the packing house by a num bered permit and when th: animal |s slaughtered the inspector carefully ex amines the viscera and all parts of the carcass and if found free from dliease he passes the carcass for food, otherwise he condemns it. Should the carcass show to be infected with disease it would be con- demned All animals that pass insp ction at the yards are driven to the different packing houses and are there subjeeted to v overy careful postmortem examination “Some of the discases for which we con demn are Hog cholera; swine plague charbon or anthrax, rabies, malignant epl- catar or 200t i 1, pyaemia and mange b in advanced vanced of actinomycosis inflammation of the intes or the peritoneum; Texas fever; ex tensive or generalized tuberculosis, animals in an advanced stage of pregnancy or which have septicaemlia; ad or lumpy stages stages Jaw the lungs tine recently given birth to young; any discase or injury causing elevation of the temperature or affecting the sys em of the inimal to a degree which would make the flesh unfit for human food; anv argan or part of a carcass which is badly bruisel or affected by tuberculosis, actinomycosts, cancer abeess; suppurating sore or tape worm cysts must be condemned; animals too voung and immature to produce whole ome meat inimals too emaciated and anaemic to produce wholesome meat; dis temper, glanders and farcy and other ma lignant disorders; acute inflammatory ness and extensive fistula “There slaughtered Omaha packing hous to June 30, 1%01, 2 lam» were at the SoHuth 8 from January 1. 1901 5602 cattle, 1,208,168 hogs, 392,157 sheep. All were subjected to the usual ante and postmortem examina tions by the government inspectors, There were 731 beef cacasses and 648 parts of same found diseased and unfit for food and were tanked and rendered into ferti. lizer during the first six months of th present year. During the same months 3,068 hog carcasses were condemned; 10t an unusual condition; it runs in about the same proportion, this is along Disposing of Condemned Ment, “All condemned carcasses and the viscera of the same are tanked in a tank under tho immediate supe sion of a government in spector, who first seals the lower opening of the tank with a lead and wire seal anl then places within the tank the condemned carcass; then the cover of the tank is sealel on in the same manner, steam is then turned on and the contents of the tank are rendered into grease and fertilizer, after which the tank is unsealed by the party that sealed the same The grease makes lubricating oils and the residue makes fer tilizer. “The total amount of meat products ex ported for the first six months of the pres ent year from South Omaha was 14,500,000 pounds Each and every package, barrel or box, car s or part of same is covered by a rumbered stamp or a numbered tag of which a record is kept in this office and a report made to the chief of bureaus' office in Washington Each employe reports to this ofMce the work performed by himself each day and such report forms the basis for the daily reports which are trans mitted to the chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry at Washington. From day a record of all stamps, tags and material used is also kept in this office and trans mitted Washington. The record is complete that the number on the stamp on the box and the number on the tag on car casses would indicate the day the tag was affixed to the carcass, by whom affixed and also the inspector that would be responsible for the postmortem work done, so that in cases where anything {8 wrong or the meat unfit for food the fault can easily be traced to the Inspector in charge, thus making it hardly possible for diseased meats to be passed for food “Microscopic examination of pork is made to day to 80 only for those countries that require such and the carcasses of those found free from trichinae are cut up into the different cut required and placed in enclosed cellars ui government moved from vision of government employes for export exhmination examination diaphragm, better known as the tender- and one from the inside of the shoul- psoas muscle I'wo Kinds of Juries placed in a small tin box, a duplicate tag is placed in the box with the samples and the other part carcass that Pittsburg Gazette: terestod in painting met 8 downtown and fell versation regarding the jury that upon the paintings submitted for exhibition Pittshurgers in front of an ar microscopi examination “Cases of 108 samples being received ¢ department are distributed to the assistant microscopists and the num ber so taken charged to the the microscopic tween the functions of an art jury and those twelve men whose duty of the day's similarity ?** amine the samples from five boxe object of their investigation shall hang." each slide or there is also a strong minutes for examination dissimilarity," three samples in each box 1o you make murder juries hang the worst men muscle (tenderloin) and the third from the Each preparation must and examined separately Painters whose and frames muse be used for each prepara wo had better drop the subjec was thereupon dropped microscopist retained on spindles condemnations the microscopist He Liked It the tags in samples con my new hat? move and dispose of condemned carcasses, Why I made it myself, as 1 was saying, the idea of paying big prices for such mon- and a report of the disposition of the same inspector in examinations Now, your hat is a work of art, Beautiful, my dear! trichinae are removed from those examined If it came from Parls.