Show warn shippers against altering certificates cautioning shippers 0 of hay against altering shipping point inspection car 1111 cates issued under the federal state stale hay inspection either by erasure of 01 addition or in any other oilier manner the united states department ot of agriculture has hag just published the following facts to a recent case of this kind A federal states inspector inspected a lot of about twelve was tons of hay bay on a farm for which he issued a ceralli cate grading the hay bay U S no 2 timothy tire the shipper subsequently shipped a carload of tiny hay to chicago and inserted on the inspection certificate the number of the car thus making it appear that the hay bay had bad been inspected in the car examination of the tiny hay upon arrival at destination disclosed that it graded variously y U V S no 3 timothy clover mixed U S no 2 timothy Thres threshed beo timothy not hay and U S sample grade timothy badly stained musty this seemed to indicate that there was some hay in the barn which had not been inspected and had bad been either negligently or improperly mixed with the inspected lot and loaded in the car in any case tire the department points out the addition adill tion of the car number on the certificate was improper as it imported that the hay bay had been inspected in the car which was not the fact |