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Show As a result of this year's campaign, 100,000 more square miles of territory will be freed from the tick and an almost al-most incalculable quantity of meat and milk added to the national production. pro-duction. The campaign needs, of course, the co-operation of every person per-son who owns cattle in Infested territory. terri-tory. There are left only a very few men who try to hold out against tick-eradication tick-eradication methods. RULES MADE FOR PACKING HOUSES Summary of What War Has Done for Benefit of Consumers of Animal Products. DOWNFALL OF SLACKER CAN Government Has Refused to Tolerate Use of Tin for Canning Air Poisonous Poi-sonous Disinfectants Are Also Forbidden. While the various governmental agencies have always taken more than ordinary percautions to safeguard consumers con-sumers against any evils that might result from canned meats, contingencies contingen-cies arising out of the present state of war have resulted in even more perfect protection for soldiers and civilian alike. An old evil in the canning industry was what has recently been called the "slacker can." It was not able to survive the state of war. The partly filled can, like other slackers, had to go. The mere bringing of cans up to-the to-the low net-content weight printed on their labels is no longer all that is required. re-quired. The can must be filled. The war brought a shortage of tin and the government refused to tolerate the use of tin for canning air. Poisonous Disinfectants Forbidden. Extraordinary precautions are being taken also in other particulars. A recent re-cent regulatory announcement from the bureau of animal industry, United States department of agriculture, forbids for-bids the keeping of such odorless poisons poi-sons as bichloride of mercury in packing pack-ing houses and directs that hot water containing approximately 1 per cent of salsoda (sodium carbonate) shall be used for disinfecting all instruments. instru-ments. The bureau has supplied all stations sta-tions with special thermometers for making temperature tests of meats, and inspectors are Instructed to closely close-ly supervise the handling of all meats end products of a kind prepared customarily cus-tomarily to be eaten without cooking and which contain any muscle tissue. The inspectors are Instructed also to see that all meats which are not rendered ren-dered into lard or tallow and which are utilized for food purposes shall be sterilized by heating so that all portions por-tions of the meat are brought to a temperature of 170 degrees Fahrenheit Fahren-heit and maintained at this temperature tempera-ture for not less than 30 minutes. Different Cooking Methods. The bureau of animal industry does not specify the cooking necessary to insure that all parts of the meat are heated to the minimum temperature. That was regarded as impracticable on account of the fact that different methods of cooking are used In different differ-ent packing establishments for various vari-ous weights of products. The inspectors inspec-tors are Instructed to apply good judgment judg-ment to each individual case, to make the necessary test, to determine the facts and to be guided accordingly. Making Meat by Dipping Ticks. In the campaign to "help the nation's na-tion's meat and milk supply," a million and a quarter head of cattle In 275 counties of the Southern states are making fortnightly pilgrimages to the (lipping vats. There are 2.'i,(KK) of these vats in active operation enough, if the Huns were attempting an invasion of America by way of the pulf, to make a solid concrete barrier bar-rier from New Orleans to I'ensacola. liperating the vats are !,." federal, Hate and county employees enough to place a guard every ri.'iO feet along that barrier; enough, if armed with machine guns, to hold It against any ordinary attack. That Is tlie United States army of Invasion in tick territory, the army of extermination of the cattle fever tick. |