Prof. Glenn Keen demonstrates how the number of square inches of lomeye is determined. He is using a gadget called a “plahimeter” which measures area by tracing around the boundary. Each loineye was care fully traced on a piece ot parchment prior to this part of the operation. L. F. Photo • County Swine (Continued from Page 1) man, a Spotted Poland; R. L. Bovd & Son, a Berkshire The 24 animals weie siaugh teied on Friday, and cut-out e\ ablations were done on Sat urday morning at the pack ing plant of Kunzler & Co, Inc, Lancaster. Carcass Evaluation The hogs were cut up by the Kunzler employees under the supervision of General Manager, Carl Dalton Each »ut from each hog was ta tooed with a special number so that no breeder’s names would be involved in the judging. 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Means fast, easy trans- port, too. loins from each animal Judge Kean, meanwhile, was record ing these data as they came in, and also rating each loin for carcass quality Although five of the orig inal 24 animals judged on foot were thrown out in ac coi dance with the rules of the contest for having a live weight in excess of 220 pounds, all carcasses were evaluated Another two hogs were thiown out of final consideration be cause the quality of their meat was not acceptable (one of these, unfortunately, would have rated very near the top on ham-loin percentage ’ The quality of the loin gives an excellent indication of the overall meat quality of the animal In evaluating for qual ity, Kean recorded extent of maibeling, and gave each loin a rating that langed fiom ideal to soft and wateiy. McCORMICK CORN PICKER On-the-go snapping roll spacing See us TODAY! Discover all seven time-saving and corn-saving features for yourself-with a demonstration^) C. B. Hoober INTKRCOT3RSB 764-3501 D. L. 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Choice of regular or Min nesota husking rolls. _ A sample of the backfat Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 3, 1964—7 was taken at three different places lor each animal, and an average of these three figures determined the inches ot backfat Results (Assuming satisfactoiy meat quality, wmneis wcie chosen on the basis of percentage of dressed weight made up by ham and loin weight) ' 1 A Beikshne entered by R L Boyd and Son 11 inches backfat, and 42 0 pei cent ham and loin 2 A Spotted Poland en tei ed by Clair Hartman 13 inches backfat, and ham-loin peicentage of 40 8 3 A Beikshne enteied by R L Boyd & Son 11 inches backfat, and 40 8 ham loin pei centage 4 A Spotted Poland en teied by Clair Hartman 13 inches backfat, and 40 2 ham loin peicentage 5 A Spotted Poland en tered by Warren Leimnger 16 inches backfat, and 40 2 ham-loin percentage. It should be noted that al though the ham-loin percent age for the second and third place hogs, and for the fourth and fifth place hogs, were identical in each case, meat quality was the factor that de cided these ties. The variation in the several measurements was not too gi eat for backfat 11 to 2 0 inches but in loineye it ranged fiom 3 0 to 6 2 square inches, and for per cent ham and loin it langed fi om 32 6 to 42 0 per cent How accurately were the cut out figures estimated on-foot 9 Kauffman Bros. MOUN'I'VIELE 285-0151 Cope & Weaver Co. NEW PROVIDENCE 186-7351 The meat quality factor can be greatly influenced through breeding and is therefore of prime considera tion to the swine breeders The above loins demon strate quality variation From left to right they rep resent meat that is (1) too dark, (2) ideal, and (3) soft and watery. L F. Photo. Backfat seemed to be the easi est iactoi to estimate and the judge came within 2 inches 63 per cent of the time Foi pei cent ham-loin he was with in 1 per cent of the tiue evalu ation 37 pei cent of the time The lattei may seem a little low, but the influence of the amount of trim left on each cut can change the final per centage considerably. It was obseived by Martin and Fish er, for example, that these fig ures were higher than ham loin peicentage figures found in their Spring carcass show Judge Kean undei estimated the ham-loin figuies 100 per cent of the time which fuither il lustiates the effect that turn can have when a judge gets used to a ceilam degiee of ti imming This type ot hog show may Husk feast esEieS cßecan watb * hSs 1-PR Corn Picker Pull-type for 2 • Low, gentle-sloping gatherer* with hinged points to save down corn • Fast, clean snapping action guards against shelling • Oversized, 6-roU husking bed gets ears husk clean • Teams with any tractor with 2-plow power, standard pto Plow or larger tractors with PTO Big 6-roll husking bed gives you capacity to do husk-clean work in the highest yields ... and pick up to 10 acres a day with this heavy-duty McCormick Model 1-PR one row pull-type picker. What’s more, the picker is built extra sturdy to give you season on season of low-cost picking. Find out how you con buy on the now IH Income Purchase Plan MAM**** international Harvester Sales and Service EPHRATA seem a little too technical to the casual obseivei, but bleed ing and selection of animals is getting to be a veiy pie cise and technical business and it will piobably get moie so as time goes on If the small, local hog bieeder is to suivive in oiu mcieasmgly technical woild he is going to have to adopt some scientific techniques to keep up with the laige highpoweied oigan izations that have all kinds of technical and financial ie souices at then disposal Tiophies £Ol this show will be awaided to the owners of the first and second place boss at the Association’s Poik Bai beque which will be held —• lam 01 shine at the Lam petei Fangiounds on Satur day, Octobei 24, 5 to 7 pm iiiiii '733-2283
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