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Show WHAT THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE IS DOING llh.c.l si nU IN Ml I INSINUATION HI The federal system of meat Inspoc-tion Inspoc-tion which 1b conducted by the Bureau Bur-eau of Animal Industry of the liilt- ed States Department of Agriculture recorded Its biggest twelve mouths In the last fiscal year. The number of iinlnuils slaughtered under federal inspection in-spection wns 20.6 greuter than In the preceding year and 21.6 per cent greater than the average for the last twelve years. Too total number of auimuls inspected in-spected was 70,708,637. The anto-inortuni Inspection re-Bulled re-Bulled in the condemnation of 2,588 live animals on account of 18 different differ-ent diseases and conditions. Post mortem examination revealed forty different diseases and conditions, condi-tions, resulting in the condemnation of 212.245 carcassfts and 603,050 parts of carcasses. The seven meat Inspection laboratories labora-tories which are a part of the service made more than 60,000 analyses of products. Analyses revealed 306 violations vi-olations of regulations. Kmployes In the meat inspection sen Ice number aboul 2.500, including- veterinary inspectors, experts 111 sanitation, laboratory Inspectors, lay Inspectors, clerks mid others. The Dumber of establishments at which Inspect inn was conducted last year was 195, located In 263 cities and towns There wore certified for export S. 402,070,705 pounds of me.it and ment products. The total amount of ment offered for Import ;it ion was 179.911,143 pounds, of whlchi upon Inspection, Jr F42.1G0 pounds were condemned OS refused entry. The inspection of meal for the military mil-itary ami other departments of the government amounted to 2SS.24R,536 poinds, of which nearly 10.000,000 pounds were rejected . iii connection with actual Inspection Inspec-tion of meats anil proilueth. numerous numer-ous investigations were conducted to develop and Improve les's of various kinds and to perfect the system gen-erally. gen-erally. AX RKTOMOUKlICAfi witti: nri'ii: When telephone girls In California find iheir srtrei are "aborted." bug may be on or In the wire, for Call fornla has a wood boring beetle that goes through wood and aiso through alloyed substances considerably harder hard-er than lead. The beetle has put hundreds of telephones out of commission com-mission by boring holes In the cables that carry the wires. Water entire the cables, making wire connections useless until the bored places are found and repaired. Tho problem of control of this metal boring beetle Is still unsolved, according to the Itureau of Entomology of the TIntted Slates Department of Agriculture, and it will be difflculUto find a practicable prac-ticable way. IH1 (JAMK HKItltS A 1 1 1 : l Itl.ASINU Dig game animals are Increasing on the four big game serevations under un-der control of the United States Department De-partment of Agriculture. The report of the chief of the bureau of biological biologi-cal survey shows a total of :n;s bison 274 elk, 54 antelope and 21 deer, an Inoerase In oarh species over the number num-ber repotrod last year. The number of visitors to the big game reservations reserva-tions is also growing, says the report. MOOT FiAHKI, thi; FX-I'Kewut FX-I'Kewut i: lioitA.V An order signed under the control act by the secretary of agriculture on December 6, lilt, and issued by the lluruau of Soils of the United Siate-i Department of Agriculture provides as follows: "That hereafter no licensee handling handl-ing or dealing In fertilisers, or fertilizer fertil-izer Ingredients shall sell tor appii-eatlon appii-eatlon to the sail any mixed fertilizer which contains more than one-tenth Ol 1 I" f cent of boron, expressed as anhydrous borax, unless Hie contain oi thereof be marked, tagged, brand-ed brand-ed or labeled so n to show plainly anil OOnsplCttOUSly, as part of the analysis, an-alysis, the percentage of borax present." pres-ent." Bullions 1AVKD ihom thi; wii.d BHAJFTC Taking the estimates of farmers and Stockmen themselves .there has been saved to ll.eiu during the past I year not less than 11,000.004) from the booting of predatory wild an iniais by i he United stales Depart ineiii of Agriculture, in cooperation r with the slates. The work is done b) the Bureau of Biological survey mid such agencies as are ilesigued by me v.ij. it .i. b "- 'Jl I Welt hn.e.l i.m.el li. c uuv,..iim ui I ine uioiufciiai aartwj n a iwes w HlWeeil .' una j ju nMneu ihium i . i .,,w, i are iuai sun jjn-uiei nam hers were killed by poisoning, though ; no actual count could be made ol an ' mi, us thus destroyed. I.xlon.sive ' poisoning operations were conducted In the greal sheep glowing sections of Aruomi, Colorado, Colora-do, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and; Wyoming. This was followed by a ' marked decrease in the number of coyotes, particularly with a corresponding corres-ponding decrease in the losses of sin i p, cattle, pigs, colts and poultry. Stockmen say that on many Important Import-ant ranges and lambing grounds the former heavy annual losses have become be-come negligible or have been entirely entire-ly eliminated. As un illustration, there Is an area about 7 5 hiiles lu diameter In western Colorado Where sheep owners formerly reported an average loss of aboul 25 sheep a day throughout the season. Poisoning operations op-erations have been conducted through two successive seusons. Destruction of predatory animals has been so thorough that ..In ep now range freely, free-ly, sometimes unattended for Beveral days In succession without loss. Loss-i Loss-i os throughout the area are nominal. |