vincing and convenient. We are as anxious as any one can be to see
the people supplied with well ripened and well cared-for corn grown in
the proper latitude, and we are equally anxious to guard them against
imposition.

THE PORK QUESTION IN EUROPE.

The question of admitting American pork into France is not yet settled.
The Corps Legislatif is again "all tore up" by rash statements made by
member M. Paul Bert, who has published a letter at Paris in which he
argues that the use of our pork must result in disease, and that a
general outbreak may be feared at any moment, so long as the products of
diseased swine are offered in French markets. He endeavors to strengthen
his position by pretending to quote from Dr. Detmers, Department of
Agriculture Inspector at the Chicago Stock Yards. He alleges that
Detmers has reported that diseased and dying hogs are sold daily in
Chicago, and then shipped as pork, bacon, and lard to Havre and
Bordeaux. To this audacious or mendacious charge Dr. Detmers replies as
follows:

The statement made by M. Paul Bert, as contained in a cable
dispatch from Paris, is not only a perversion of facts, but a
falsehood cut from whole cloth. I never certified, wrote, or
said that dead hogs are shipped to packing-houses, or that
these carcasses are shipped abroad. All I ever said in regard
to transportation of diseased or dead hogs is contained in my
official reports to the Commissioner of Agriculture,
Washington, and can be found in his annual reports of 1878
and 1879, on pages 355 and 418 respectively, where it is
accessible to everyone. I simply called attention to the
transportation of diseased and dead hogs to the rendering
tanks--entirely distinct from packing houses--as affording a
means of spreading the then prevailing disease--swine plague,
or so-called hog cholera.

M. Paul Bert seems to be a true demagogue, otherwise he would
not resort to a falsehood to please his constituents. I never
in any manner, directly or indirectly, stated or intimated
that packers are or ever were in collusion with dealers in
diseased live stock. Moreover, the laws and regulations of
the Chicago Stock Yards are such as to render it absolutely
impossible that a dead hog should be smuggled into them, and
if an animal should die while in the yards it is at once
delivered to a soap-grease rendering establishment out