Show TESTS MEAT FOR SWEETNESS olfactory nerves of the tha ham smell or er must B be always at their 1 keenest to the long list of occupy long eions b by y which nien men live there must b be e added that of the ham smeller in a packing house bouse his duty Is to inspect meat products and judge of their soundness I 1 the ham smellers tm sm ellers only tools are a long steel trier and his bis nose lie ile tends stands in a barrel to keep hla big clothes from being soiled by the dripping brine and the hams ore are brought to blin by workmen A ham Is laid before him and he plunges his sharp edees pointed trier into it withdraws it and passes it swiftly beneath his bis nose the I 1 trier always goes down to the knuckle joint in IB testing meat in that manner the man with the trier judges by the tha slightest lightest shade of difference between the smell of one piece of meat and mother another the smell of the meat Is almost universally sweet and that la Is what he be smells the slightest taint or deviation from the sweet smell Is therefore appreciable it Is not the degree li Pee of taint that he ha expects to find but the slightest odor that Is not cot sweet when he detects an odor he throws the meat aside and if it Is not unwholesome i it Is told sold as rejected meat but it if it Is tainted it goes to the rendering tank the ham tester smells meat from 7 in the morning juntu until 6 5 at night and his sense must never naver become jaded or inexact Ines act or his usefulness would be at an end ham testing is ie riot not a pursuit dangerous to the health as tea testing Is eup supposed up posed to be but the I 1 ham in smeller with a cold in his bis head bead Is for the time being like a piano player who has lost his arms anna in a railway wreck |