8. R. A.-B. A. I. 211 Issued December 24, 1924 United States Department of Agriculture SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS BURE U OF A IMAL INDU TRY OVEMBER, 1924 [This publication is issued monthly for the dissemination of information, instructions, rulings, etc., concerning the work of the Bureau of Animal Industry. Free distribution is limited to persons in the service of the bureau, establishments at which the Federal meat inspection is conducted, public officers whose duties make it desirable for them to have such information, and journals especially concerned. Others desiring copies may obtain them from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., at 5 ce.nts each, or 25 cents a year. A supply will be sent to each official in charge of a station or branch of thd bureau service, who should promptly distribute copies to members of bis force. A file should be kept at each station for reference.] CONTENTS Page Changes in directory .............................................................................. 11!} Animals slaughtered under Federal meat inspection, October, 1924 ................................• 120 Causes for condemnation of carcasses in eptember, 1924 ......... ___ .....................•........• 120 Imports of food animals and of meats and meat•food products ..................................... 120 Foreign officials authorized to sign inspection certificates for meat and products for importation into the United States .............................................•••.......•. ....................... 121 Licenses for veterinary biological products ...........................•.........................•.... 121 Aoti•bog·cbolera serum and bog•cbolera virus produced under U. S. veterinary license in October, 1924 ............................................................................................. 122 Summary of tuberculosis-eradication work in cooperating States, October, 1924 ............... ..... 122 Texas•fever quarantine-Places to which southern cattle may be shipped for immediate slaughter .• 123 Results of prosecutions for violations of laws ...........................•.•................... ·-·-· .. 123 New publications of the bureau .................•........................................... ....... 123 Organization of the Bureau of Animal Industry .•....................................•............ I CHANGES IN DIRECTORY Meat Inspection Granted 19-G. Sunlight Creameries, Dayton Avenue and Union Street, Wa&lrlngton - Court House, Ohio. 242. P. H. Butler Co., Seventeenth Street and Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh1 Pa. 419-L. The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Ashby Street, Atlanta, Ga. , 473. Gulf & Valley Cotton Oil Co. (Ltd.), Gretna, La. (Mail, P. 0. Box 1202, 1 ew Orleans, La.) - Meat Inspection Withdrawn -- 404. ew Jersey Provision Co., Trenton, N. J. Meat Inspection Extended 2-R. Armour & Co., Los Angeles, Calif., to include the Hemphill Packing Cor and Morris & Co. Change in Name of Official Establishment 815. orthampton Provision Co. (Inc.), Philadelphia Road, Box 301, Easton,. Pa., instead of H. H. Volk. Change in Address of Inspector in Charge Dr. Frank Jelen, 3129 Spring Grove Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio, instead of 3125• ► Spring Grove Avenue. Dr. A. L. Hirleman, 528 Federal Building, Atlanta, Ga., instead of 313 State House. Dr. Henry 'larshall, 316-317 Federal Building, Richmond, Va., instead of 315 Federal Building. Add to List of Bureau Officials A. H. Carpenter, care unlight Creameries, Washington Court House, Ohio. Dr. G. T. Van Bushkirk, Ogdensburg, N. Y. 22280-24 t 119 120 BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY LNovember, Remove from List of Bureau Officials Dr. Charles Cowie, Ogdensburg, N. Y. (deceased). New Station Washington Court House, Ohio, meat inspection. ANIMALS SLAUGHTERED UNDER FEDERAL MEAT INSPECTION, OCTOBER, 1924 Station Cattle Calves Sheep Goats Swine Baltimore ______ _______ ______________________ Brooklyn _______ ______ _______________________ 7,675 1,930 6,213 237 81,008 6,062 8,727 25,848 Buffalo _____ _________________________________ ---------- ------------ Chicago ____ ___ ______________________________ 9,335 3,016 IO, 181 ---------- 76,710 Cincinnati. __________________________________ 214,222 56,928 276,121 771 471,493 Cleveland ___________________________________ 13,064 8,042 7,171 4 63,237 Detroit ___________________________________ ___ 11,888 9,317 15,986 -------·-- 72,858 Fort Worth __ ________________________________ 7,018 6,776 23,772 69,481 51,589 ------ -- -- Indianapolis ____________ _____________________ 56,979 6,913 341 24,624 Jersey City ____ ___ ____ _______________________ 25,325 3,221 4,729 1 105,649 Kansas City ______________ __ ________________ 5,836 8,719 47,516 75 78,785 Milwaukee _____________________________ ___ __ 153,843 51,150 109,910 963 225,570 13,889 37,341 7,368 106,356 National Stock Yards ______ _____________ ____ ------ -- -- New York __ ___ ____ __________________________ 55, 107 8,172 21,553 172 126,833 Omaha _______________ ______ ____________ __ ___ 31,607 41,273 156,843 188 98,902 95,078 13,431 113,291 208 146,493 Philadelphia ________________ _________________ 9,683 6,465 19,344 93,534 St. Louis_----------------- ------------------ 21,416 3,450 7,305 ---------- 130,501 Sioux City ______ _____________________ ________ 32,135 3,270 26,175 ----------150 129,592 South St. Joseph ______ _______ ________________ 42,454 11,278 South St. Paul. ________ _____ _____________ ___ 59,978 4 111,409 46,349 47,494 61,403 -- ----- --- 220,448 All other establishments ____________ ________ _ 162, 714 86,489 139,894 945 1,064,652 Total: October, 1924 _____ ____ ___ _____ ___ 1,016, 289 473,468 1,147,514 4,059 3,498,135 October, 1923 ___ _________________ 952,795 416,3 8 1,046,239 3,458 4,327,951 10 months ended October, 1924 __ 7,715,314 4,127,056 10,068,952 22,477 41,631,384 10 months ended October, 1923 __ 7,560,648 3,806, 715 9,635,640 19,763 42, 089,271 Horses slaughtered at all establishments, October, 1924, 1,061. Inspections of Jard at all establishments, 111,928,060 pounds; compound and other substitutes, 55,814,935 pounds. Corresponding inspections for October, 1923: Lard, 149,658,731 pounds; compound and other substitutes, 31,268,705 pounds. (These totals do not represent actual production, as the same lard or compound may have been inspected and recorded more than once in the process of manufactuer.) CAUSES FOR CONDEMNATION OF CARCASSES IN SEPTEMBER, 1924 Cause Cattle Calves Sheep Swine Emaciation____________________________ _________________ _____ __ 569 101 518 61 Hog cholera__________________________ ___ _____ __ __ ___ ___ _____ ____ ______ __ ____ ___________ ___ ___ 1,670 I nfiammatory diseases ___ ••. ___ •... __ . ______ .. ___ .. _. ________ ._ 617 114 416 1,477 Immaturity _____ .• __ _____ _.. _. ..•. ____ . ____ ._. ___ • ______________________ • 161 ___________________ _ Tuberculosis.-------------------------------------------------- 3,847 44 __________ 5, 738 All other causes__________ __________________ ____ _______ ___ ______ 1,204 239 527 3, 005 Total __ ______________________ ___ ________________________ _ 6,237 659 1, 461 11,951 IMPORTS OF FOOD ANIMALS AND OF MEATS AND MEAT FOOD PRODUCTS The statements following show the imports of food animals and of meats and .meat food products inspected by the Bureau of Animal Industry during October, 1924, with figures for other periods for comparison: Imports offood animals Country of export Cattle Swine Sheep Goats Mexico ____ _____________________________________________________ 17, 134 100 4,909 9 Canada _______ . __ . _________ -- _________ . _. _____________________ 16,056 5,748 11,314 5 Total: 0 ctober, 1924 _______ . ___ . ___ . __ • _. ______ ••• ________ 33,190 5,848 16,223 14 October, 1923 ______________________________________ 31,093 248 11,895 6 IO months ended October, 1924 -------------------- 175,037 22,503 52,921 10,120 IO months ended October, 1923 ____ ________________ 128,380 2,038 39,271 ~ 140 -- - Hl:!4) ERVICE A D REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 121 I mports of meat and meat food products Fresh and refrigerated I Country of export Canned Other Total" Beef Other and cured products weight Pounds Pounds Pounds Pounds rounds Argentina _. ____ .... _._ .•....••••..•..... 43,144 1,680 34 ,761 49,199 442, 784 Canada ... __ -..... - -...... -.... ---..•.•...• 419,416 2,300,349 181,903 4,707 2,906,375 Uruguay.. _. __ ... ·-. --..... -..... -.. -..... - ------------------ ------ 160,3 0 ------------ 160,380 Other countries ..... ___ ....... _.....• _._ . _ ---- -------- 4,484 35,806 27,588 67,878 Total: October, 1924 .. _. _•.......... 462,560 2,306,513 726,850 1,494 3,577,417 October, 1923_.-·-··········· 3, 0-15, 69 642, 99 802,546 154,390 4,645,704 10 months ended October, 1924 ..........••. 10,630,777 10,623,592 9,478,197 I, 984, 142 32,716,708 10 months ended October, 1923 ... ........ -. 11,147,474 9,080, 347 10,039,193 980,152 31,247, 166 Condemned in October. 1924: Beef, 342 pounds; pork, 210 pounds; total, 552 pounds. Refused entry: Pork, 6 pounds. FOREIGN OFFICIALS AUTHORIZED TO SIGN INSPECTION CERTIFI­ CATES FOR MEAT AND PRODUCTS FOR IMPORTATION INTO THE UNITED ST ATES The following are additional names, addresses, and facsimile signatures of foreign national Government officials authorized to sign and issue certificates of inspection for meat and meat food products offered for importation into the United States: Country and name cnignature BRAZIL Edvard Ferreira •.. __________ _ Luiz Martins Falcao. ________ _ ~~-~~ I LICENSES