────────────────────────────────┬───────────┬────────────┬────────── ITEM │ CATTLE │ SHEEP │ SWINE ─—─—─—─—————————————————─—─—─—─—┼─——————─—─-┼————————─—─—┼─—————─—─— Slaughtered under Federal │ │ │ Inspection │ 7,633,365 │ 10,252,070 │ 32,885,377 │ │ │ Estimated Farm Slaughter │ 1,500,000 │ 1,000,000 │ 16,500,000 │ │ │ Slaughtered by Butchers without │ │ │ Federal Inspection │ 4,972,052 │ 7,793,133 │ 10,316,300 ─—─—─—─—————————————————─—─—─—─—┴─——————─—─-┴─———————─—─—┴─—————─—─— It will be seen from the foregoing that practically 5,000,000 cattle, nearly 8,000,000 sheep, and over 10,000,000 hogs were slaughtered by butchers in 1907 without Federal Inspection, to which may be added about 3,000,000 calves. All these 26,000,000 animals were consumed by the people of the United States, and the responsibility of inspecting them rested wholly upon the State and local authorities, since they are beyond the reach of the Federal Inspectors. And now, how about the sanitary conditions of the slaughter-houses in which these animals were killed, and how about the state of the animals themselves? Were they free from disease? were they sick? Were the surroundings filthy and poisonous in the extreme? If I should give an account of the real state of affairs in my own words, I should be accused of exaggeration—to use the very mildest term. I prefer, therefore, to quote entirely from the Report of the Bureau of Animal Industry, before referred to. This Report states in part: “The slaughter-houses, where animals are killed for local consumption, are usually isolated or scattered about the city or town.... Such houses, in addition to being unsightly, malodorous, unclean, and insanitary in the extreme, are actually centres for spreading disease.... A recent investigation made by the State Board of Health in Indiana of those slaughter-houses which do not have Federal Inspection ... states that: