Show something about the canned meat we eat wichita kansas june 26 1614 mr john K R bailis st george utah deir dear mr wallis since entering the government goern go eminent ment service under the bureau of animal industry I 1 have hae annexed a few facts that might prove of interest to vou jou personally if not to the readers of our home piper paper at wichita two wo picking packing houses pre under government inspection t uda hya and the jacob dold packing co the tile law provides thit that any picking packing industry thit that does inter baitt shipment must be under guv gun erti ment control there are thirty ond oti inspectors at this bt petition feti dion tion i e tn tm i veterinarians eterina rians nine meat inspect ore and twelve assistant ami stant meat inspectors spec tors the tuo houes hou ies kill ap proximately two thousand thou hogs a it las day and about four hundred held head of cattle each day ine e oon condemn denin abent fifteen hogs and in the neighborhood lo of ten head of cattle moat of the condemning being done for tuberculosis some tor for hog bog cholera and a few for N various arious diseases known to be to roan man we have bane just completed the killing of three thou thousand and mexican cons and steers thee there cattle were ill all BO so thin in flesh that a good percent of them nall alk to the killing pen pon at first I 1 ii as surprised to 6 find nd them killing such poor cattle but later I 1 found out opt that the aco cra poor stuff and the bulls were not aed for fresh meat purposes but that it nil all nent ae catin irs rs and cutters i c e for sausages deviled him decd and chipped beuf and all other banned meats eo so tint that when you tit lat any an ginned incata you ou are getting the eo iery poorest quality of me it tint that it I 1 as possible to pro prodie pr odine due however it must be added thai tho these canned goods arc are all ill government inspected at and I 1 d hence illi free from disease germs cattle at at e selling on the market marlet for sa 7 00 per der hundred undred li pounds of live weight hoga hogs bringing 8 00 per hundred the price however varying according to the quality of the animal some of the mexican steels and cows cons sold as its low as 3 oi 00 per hundred and it might be interesting to note thit that the horns on lots of tins this mexican stuff were so long that before we no could get them into the tile shoots no i ere compelled to knock them off oil often I 1 found a pair of horns measuring six feet acoss kansas is in the midst of the largest wheat crop th state ins his over known knoll 11 ii largely over and threshing is in full ful I 1 blast they estimate that there will u ill be bushels of wheat it took about pounds of binding twine to tie tic it in bundles and i large per cent was as cut with headers at present shipping facilities are giving considerable sid side erable Vable trouble it will take tams t ams of 0 55 cars eich each to haul baul the wheat to market and if these cars were coupled together they would reach biorn To pelar karsas to present it la is esti estimated mattA that there are over sity sixty thousand harvest hands working in the grain fields I 1 have ridden forty miles in each direction from wichita and all I 1 saw nas as a solid bail bank of ched with only a barb wire fence to designate the personal lines the corn crop is 13 in splendid shape ind and if ue Q can hac banc a rain next month the yield will all pre tons records I 1 might add that a i great per cent of the wheat la is being exported to foreign markets since the wheat crop outride of united states is largely a faila failure r e wheat la is now selling for 70 per lushell bushell I 1 am ant glad to note the spirit of development that seems to nate inte dixie and I 1 trust it nay gran as it has never done be ore wishing you ou continued success ith the paper and awaiting each issue with pleasure I 1 am with kind personal ers onil regards Frater fraternally wars dr F G whitehead |