A careful study of these cuts will enable the inspector to know what cuts are being delivered, and to insist that the delivery be "from fore and hind quarter meat proportionally, including all the best cuts thereof." The condition of the meat, and the age and sex of the animal from which it is taken is a more difficult question to determine, but a study of the few simple rules here given will enable the inspector to see that the meat delivered is according to specifications. Both dark-red lean meat and yellow fat indicate age; while light-red lean meat and white fat indicate youth. The mar row in the bones of a young animal is soft and red, and that of an old animal is hard and light in color. Soft, white, and wide cartilage indicates a young animal, while hard, dark and thin cartilage indicates an old animal. Looking along the backbone the character of the cartilage between the vertebræ can be easily determined. This cartilage generally becomes hard at the age of six or seven years. The cartilage of the breast bone becomes bard in an old animal. In the female the size and condition of the udder show the relative age. The udder of the heifer shows a clean cut and a firm, uniform mass in either flank, while that of the cow presents a more or less flabby appearance. Sometimes the udder of an old cow is removed, some fat taken from a steer substituted therefor, and the flank is skewered over it in such a way as to resemble the udder of a heifer. The presence of skewers in the udder should arouse suspicion, and the appearance of the rest of the carcass should give conclusive proof of this deception. The carcass of a bull shows massive shoulders, thick bulging neck and broad breast. It shows a more rounded rump and has darker and coarser meat than a steer, cow, or heifer. In the case of the bull there is an absence of scrotal fat. The fore quarters of a bull are relatively larger than his hind quarters. The carcass of a steer should show youth. Its flesh should be florid in color and firm and elastic to the touch and lighter in color than that of a cow. Its most distinctive feature is the bunch of fat known as the "cod," which is enveloped in the scrotum. In all male carcasses the section of the pelvis or "rump" bone shown in the hind quarter is more or less curved. At the outer end of this section is a crescent-shaped piece of lean meat, sometimes separated from the end of the bone by a little fat. In female carcasses the section of the pelvis or "rump" bone, as shown in the hind quarter, is nearly straight, the amount of curvature decreasing with the age of the animal. At the outer end of this section no lean meat is visible. A "spayed" heifer's carcass generally shows the scar in the flank. Excessive moisture, which is mostly observed in flanks, abdomen, under the shoulder blade, and at the brisket, in the order named, is particularly noticeable in the carcasses of old cows or any animal that is ill conditioned. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: W. P. HALL, ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff. Acting Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 28. } WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, February 4, 1904. The following is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned: The President of the United States, by order dated January 25, 1904, under authority of "An act to provide for the disposal of abandoned and useless military reservations," approved July 5,1884 (1 Sup. Rev. Stats., 453), placed under the control of the Interior Department, for disposition under said act, or as may be otherwise provided by law, all the lands of the military reservation of Fort Egbert, Alaska, as declared by Executive order of June 13, 1899 (General Orders, No. 119, Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant General's Office, June 30, 1899), enlarged by Executive order of March 31, 1900 (General Orders, No. 48, Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant General's Office, April 12, 1900), and reduced by Executive order of July 23, 1900 (General Orders, No. 109, Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant General's Office, August 14, 1900), except the lands included within the following boundaries, which are to be retained for military purposes, viz: Commencing at a post at the mouth of Mission Creek, marked "U. S. OFFICIAL: W. P. HALL, ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff. Acting Adjutant General. FEB 18 Reca No. 29. WASHINGTON, February 4, 1904. The following is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned: The United States of America having acquired by expropriation proceedings, under a decree of the U. S. District Court for the District of Washington, Northern Division, dated August 18, 1903, recorded in the auditor's office of Island County, Washington, in volume 17, pages 564 et seq., Miscellaneous Records of said county, a tract of land containing about 66 acres (of which about 19 acres were the property of Alexander Rosenfield and wife, and about 46 acres were the property of S. D. Shields and wife), situate in Island County, Washington, near the military reservation of Fort Casey, Washington, the same is hereby announced as an addition to said military reservation. The said tract is bounded and described as follows: Lot 4 in section 31, township 31 north, range 2 east of the Willamette meridian; also one acre off the south end of lot 3 in section 31, township 31 north, range 2 east of the Willamette meridian, the south boundary of said one acre being the south boundary line of said lot 3, the north boundary line of said one acre being parallel to said south boundary line, the east boundary line thereof being the east line of said lot 3, and the west boundary line thereof being the meander line of Admiralty Inlet; also ten acres off the north end of lot 4 in section 6, township 30 north, range 2 east of the Willamette meridian, the north boundary line of said ten acres being the north line of said lot 4, which is the boundary line between townships 30 and 31 north, range 2 east of the Willamette meridian, the south boundary line thereof being parallel to said north line of lot 4, the east boundary line thereof being the east line of said lot 4, and the west boundary line thereof being the meander line of Admiralty Inlet. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: W. P. HALL, ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff. Acting Adjutant General. FEB 18 Recd |