Bulletin (United States. Bureau of Animal Industry). no. 9, 1895

Hereafter each inspector, assistant inspector, live-stock agent, stock examiner, and tagger shall be required to wear a badge in a conspicuous manner while in the performance of his official duties, and it must not be allowed to leave his possession. Such badge, properly numbered, will be furnished by the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry on application through the officer to whom the employee reports.

Each employee furnished with a badge must deposit with the inspector in charge a receipt for the said badge and the sum of $2, which amount must be transmitted by New York draft (without expense to the Department), together with the said receipt, to the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry and be duly receipted for by the Disbursing Clerk of the Department, who will be the custodian of this guarantee fund. On return of this receipt and badge by the employee at the expiration of his service the deposit shall be immediately refunded to him. J. STERLING MORTON,

Secretary.

REGULATIONS FOR THE INSPECTION OF LIVE STOCK AND THEIR PRODUCTS.

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,
Washington, D. C., June 14, 1895.

The following rules and regulations are hereby prescribed for the inspection of live cattle, sheep, hogs, and their carcasses by virtue of the authority conferred upon the Secretary of Agriculture, under the provisions of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1891, entitled "An act to provide for the inspection of live cattle, hogs, and the carcasses and products thereof which are the subjects of interstate commerce,

and for other purposes," and amendments thereto approved March 2, 1895, and will supersede all former regulations for the inspection of live stock and their products:

1. Proprietors of slaughterhouses, canning, salting, packing, or rendering establishments, engaged in the slaughter of cattle, sheep, or swine, the carcasses or products of which are to become subjects of interstate or foreign commerce, shall make application to the Secretary of Agriculture for inspection of said animals and their products.

2. The said application must be in writing addressed to the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., and shall state the location and address of the slaughterhouse or other establishment, the kind of animals slaughtered, the estimated number of animals slaughtered per week, and the character and quantity of the products to go into interstate or foreign commerce from said establishment; and the said applicant in his application shall agree to conform strictly with all lawful regulations or orders that may be made by the Secretary of Agriculture for carrying on the work of inspection at such establishment.

3. The Secretary of Agriculture will give said establishment an official number by which all its inspected products shall thereafter be known, and this number shall be used both by the inspectors of the Department of Agriculture and by the owners of said establishment to mark the products of the establishment as hereinafter prescribed.

4. The Secretary of Agriculture will designate an inspector to take charge of the examination and inspection of animals and their products for each establishment which has been officially numbered, and will detail to such inspector such assistants or other employees as may be necessary to properly carry on the work of inspection at said establishment. The inspector and all employees under his direction shall have full and free access to all parts of the building or buildings used in the slaughter of animals and the conversion of their carcasses into food products.

(a) Each employee engaged in inspection under these regulations will be furnished with a numbered badge, which must be worn in a conspicuous manner while in the performance of his official duties, and which must not be allowed to leave his possession.

(b) Each employee furnished with a badge must deposit with the inspector in charge a receipt for the said badge and the sum of $2, which amount must be transmitted by New York draft (without expense to the Department), together with the said receipt, to the Chief of Bureau of Animal Industry and be duly receipted for by the Disbursing Clerk of the Department, who will be the custodian of this guarantee fund. On return of this receipt and badge by the employee at the expiration of his service the deposit shall be immediately refunded to him.

5. An ante-mortem examination of all animals arriving at the stockyards for slaughter shall be made when they are weighed, or if not

weighed this inspection shall be made in the pens. Any animal found to be diseased or unfit for human food shall be marked by placing in the ear a metal tag bearing "U.S. Condemned" and a serial number. Such condemned animals shall be placed in pens set apart for this purpose and removed only by a numbered permit, signed by the inspector, to an abattoir or rendering works designated by the said inspector, where they shall be killed under the supervision of an employee of the Bureau of Animal Industry and rendered in such manner that their products will be made unfit for human food.

Animals rejected on account of their pregnant or parturient condition must be held in the said pens during gestation and for ten days thereafter, unless removed by permit either for stockers or for rendering in the manner above specified.

6. The inspector in charge of said establishment shall carefully inspect all animals in the pens of said establishment about to be slaughtered, and no animal shall be allowed to pass to the slaughtering room until it has been so inspected. All animals found on either ante-mortem or post-mortem examination to be affected as follows are to be condemned and the carcasses thereof treated as indicated in section 7:

(1) Hog cholera.

(2) Swine plague.

(3) Charbon or anthrax.

(4) Rabies.

(5) Malignant epizootic catarrh.

(6) Pyæmia and septicemia.

(7) Mange or scab in advanced stages.

(8) Advanced stages of actinomycosis or lumpy-jaw.

(9) Inflammation of the lungs, the intestines, or the peritoneum. (10) Texas fever.

(11) Extensive or generalized tuberculosis.

(12) Animals in an advanced state of pregnancy or which have recently given birth to young.

(13) Any disease or injury causing elevation of temperature or affecting the system of the animal to a degree which would make the flesh unfit for human food.

Any organ or part of a carcass which is badly bruised or affected by tuberculosis, actinomycosis, cancer, abscess, suppurating sore, or tapeworm cysts must be condemned.

7. The inspector or his assistant shall carefully inspect at the time of slaughter all animals slaughtered at said establishment and make a post-mortem report of the same to the Department. The head of each animal shall be held until the inspection of the carcass is completed in order that it may be identified in case of condemnation of the carcass. Should the carcass of any animal on said post-mortem examination be found to be diseased and unfit for human food, the said carcass shall be marked with the yellow condemnation tag, and the diseased

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