Mr. Uhl to Mr. Runyon.

No. 237.]

Sir: I have to inform you that, in a letter of the 8th instant, the Secretary of Agriculture states that he has recently learned that pork which had not been microscopically inspected has been shipped to Germany and allowed entry, probably because the officials were not informed as to the difference in the meat inspection stamps and the certificates used by the Department of Agriculture for the two kinds of inspection. He therefore desires that representations be made to the German Government to the effect that all pork slaughtered for the interstate or foreign trade is inspected at the abattoirs by veterinarians, and that which is to be shipped to France, Germany, Denmark, and other countries, requiring the microscopical inspection, is subjected to this inspection in addition to the veterinary inspection at the abattoir. The pork which has been microscopically inspected is distinguished by a purple stamp upon the packages, which bears the word “Export.” The stamp upon the pork not microscopically inspected is a white stamp which has the same printed matter, with the exception that it does not contain the word “Export” The certificates issued with the microscopically inspected pork have stamped across their face the words, “Microscopically examined in addition to regular inspection.”

You will accordingly lay the matter before the German Government in the sense of Secretary Morton’s representations, and for that purpose I inclose samples of the stamps and certificates used for the microscopically examined pork and copies of the regulations recently issued for the inspection of live stock and their products.

I am, etc.,

Edwin F. Uhl, Acting Secretary.