This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1904 Excerpt: ... put the figures of last year in connection with these. The exported animals which are inspected reached 494,000, very nearly 500,000, and it is necessary that they should be inspected in the stock yards. We think they should be inspected when they are loaded, and that the vessels should be inspected, and that we should see that they have proper room on board for them, the proper ventilation, the proper amount of feed, and the proper number of men to take care of them. Mr. Scott. Is it necessary, Doctor, to have a certificate of inspection from your Department go with every cargo of animals? Mr. Salmon. With every cargo of animals. Mr. Scott. In order to have them received in the country to which they are consigned? Mr. Salmon. Yes; and we have inspected and cleared 634 ships during the last year. That means, of course, that we saw that the fittings were right. The Chairman. You do not know offhand, I suppose, whether the export cattle last year increased over the cattle imported? Mr. Salmon. The export cattle did not increase, no; they decreased slightly, but not enough to make any difference in the inspection. The Chairman. Was there an increase in hogs, do you know, or of meat products generally? Mr. Salmon. I could not tell you about that. The hog inspection--that is, the microscopic inspection--has been very low for two or three years. For instance, last year we inspected about half a million carcasses by microscopic inspection. The general export trade does not make very much difference to our work, in fact no difference, because we inspect all the animals that are killed in the large abattoirs, whether they go into interstate commerce or for export. Then our inspection for contagious diseases has been pretty heavy. We inspected of cattle going out of ...