Show I I i I I I I I FARM I CK CI K INSPECTION SHOWS HEALTH OF STOCK Prepared Prepare toT by the UDIt United d States Department of oC o Of Ot approximately meat ment animals passing under the scrutiny ot of federal Inspectors during the last lie fis fiscal cal year the vast majority proved to tobe tobe tobe be healthy and went Into the various channels of ot the meat trade But the tact fact that sll slightly more than a third ot of a million carcasses and nearly parts of ot carcasses were con at slaughter Indicates the th searching character of ot the Inspection I The report of ot the chief of the bureau I ot of animal In Industry United States Slates De Do Department of ot Agriculture recently Is- Is issued Is Issued sU sued d gl gives s tile the latest comprehensive Information on the health condition ot of cattle sheep and I hogs Though designed primarily to safe sate safeguard safeguard guard the wholesomeness of ot meat ot- ot of offered feted to tho public meat ment Inspection renders a valuable service to lIve livestock stock tock producers also In keeping them informed of oC the health of ot their ani- ani ani animals male mals mal at time of slaughter Of the 35 25 principal diseases and all ailments meats ments that affect live stock tuber tuber- tuberculosis tuberculosis Is by far the most serious It was responsible for about two thirds two of the con condemnations of or cattle car car- carcasses carcasses casses and near nt-ar half halt tho those e of ot swine Tuberculosis conditions were found also among n a few sheep though these I animals rarely are arc affected The next serious disease according to Inspection meat Inspection records Is ho hog chol chol- cholera cholera era Actual losses loses are considerably heavier than those records show sInce hogs affected with will that disease usual usual- usually usually usually ly die on the farms PneumonIa peritonitis and fc k group of similar ailments rank next neat In the damage they caus cause toll followed owed by septicemia septicemia In the time case of ot calves calve Imma Immaturity Is an nn Important reason that ninny many fall to pass Inspection Among the figures for ca cattle We Injuries and bruises rank hl high h causing the con con- condemnation condemnation of ot th the meat of ot moro mono than 10 entire carcasses |