Show TESTS MEAT FOR SWEETNESS i Olfactory Nerves of tha the Ham Smeller Smell Smell- er or Must Be Always Alway at t Their j Keenest 1 To the long list of or unusual occupations by which men live there must musi b lie be added ed that of ot the Jam ham lara smeller meller in packing house His duty is to t meat products and judge of then their soundness J I 1 The ham smellers smeller's only tools are ares area a along long Jong steel trier and his nose IJ lit stands In faa n a barrel barre to keep his clothe from being soiled by the dripping brine and the hams are fire brought f fc o him by workmen A ham Is 18 laid laM h be before 11 fore him and he plunges his shar sha sharp pointed trier Into it withdraws It and ant passes It swiftly beneath his nose noe This The trier always goes down to the knuck Joint J In Iii testing meat In that manner t tt the theman man with the trier judges by th the th slightest slightest- shade of difference between the smell of one piece of or meat ment an another The smell of the meat Is a al almost most universally sweet s and that Is what he be smells the slightest taint o or deviation from the lie sweet smell Is therefore appreciable It Is not t the degree of taint that he expects to find but the slightest odor that Is not not sweet Jj J When he dete detects ts an odor he be throws throw the meat aside and If it is not nol U un uni wholesome It is sold as rejected meat but if it is tainted It goes to 10 Ih rendering tank The ham tester teste smelts smell meat from 7 o'clock In the mornin until 5 at night and his sense mus never become jaded or inexact or hi his usefulness would be a at t an e jd til Ham testing is not a pursuit d da to the tile health as tea testing f s supposed to be but the ham J nelle with a cold In his head Is for tor the Urn tim being like a piano player who who has los his arms 11 In a railway Iv wreck 1 |