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PROGRAMMING and MANAGEMENT f LP ROHRERSTOWN, PA. “Finest Service Anywhere" *" / I j Contact 1 your Miller & Bushong Service Representative or coll us direct at Lancaster 392-2145 (Area Code 717) A - V .<M | Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 29, 1964 Department Of Agriculture Adopts Standards For Feeder Cattle Grades The U S Department of Agriculture today announced adoption of official U S stan dards foi seven grades of feeder cattle, effective Sept 25 These grades, established by USDA’s Agncultural Market mg Service, are Pnme, Choice, Good, Standard, Commercial, Utility, and Infenoi They are determined by an evaluation of the factois associated with a feeder animal’s logical slaughtei potential, and the animal’s indications of thnfti ness The new feeder grades, pro posed bj AMS’s Livestock Divi sion on May 24, 1963 closely conform to current U S stan daids for slaughter cattle The Livestock Divisions 011- ginal pioposal would have established six feedei grades Fancy, Choice, Good, Medi um, Common, and Infenoi Howevei, in lesponse to in dustry requests, minoi modifi cations were made in the grade names in ordei to main tain uniform grading termino logy between feeder cattle, slaughtei cattle, and beef car casses The pioposed Fancy and Common grade names have been changed to Pnme and Utility, respectively The Medium giade has been divid ed into two separate grades on the basis of matunjb Younger animals will be de signated Standard while more mature feeders will be graded Commercial As a result of these changes, names of the top six grades of feedei cattle will be the same as the top six giades of slaugh tei cattle A feedei animal which qualifies foi the Choice giade, foi example, has the potential foi developing into a Local Guernsey High Records The American Guernsey Cat tle Club announced this week that the following local Guern sey bieedeis had cows making high recoids Harry W Blessing, Breezy Inn Farms Wnghtsville, Fa, has a Junior 4-year old, Apia, with a completed DHIR pio duction recoid of 11 490 lbs milk, and 521 lbs biittufat in 281 days at two times a day milking Di Geoige T Pack, Wrights \ille, has three registered Cuemse\s lecently completing AK moduction lecords on 2 and 3 times a day milking These were Lauxmont Diadem, 12,146 lbs milk, 588 lbs fat in 305 days Lauxmont Papa vera, 13,101 lbs milk, 601 fat in 305 days. Lauxmont Aspi distia, 9,940 lbs milk, 521 fat in 305 days Raymond F and Louise A Witmer, Willow Street, has a junior foui-year old, Penn Del Reliable Amber, with a DHIR production record of 11,350 lbs of milk, 573 lbs fat in 305 days with two times a day milking H H McConnell, Honey Biook has three legistered Guernseys that completed DHIR pioduction records with two times a day milking Bel nemus Emory Ruth, 10,720 lbs milk, 524 lbs fat in 285 days. Meetinghouse MS Pie N Belle, 9 670 lbs milk, 415 lbs, fat in 296 days, Meeting house Lane Fame Felice. 9,- 580 lbs milk. 453 lbs fat in 305 days. Choice grade slaughter steer, Tentative USDA standards now used for grading feeder cattle were last revised in 1942 These standards serve as the primary basis for Federal and Federal-State market news leporting, and for appraising the grade of feeder cattle in everyday trading by the live stock industry Also, several States utilize the tentative Fedeial standards as a guide in the conduct of officially giaded feeder cattle sales The new official grade stan dards will more uniformly and leahstically icflect present day maiket quality and value, AMS offieals said While the USDA currently has no official grading seivice foi feedei cattle, the Agncul tuial Marketing Act of 1946 authonzes establishment of such a service if needed by the industiy to facilitate market- ing The new standaids will be published in the Federal Re gistei Aug 26 Copies of the standaids may be obtained ftom the Livestock Division, ,Agi icultural Marketing Ser vice, U S Department of Agn cultuie Washington, DC. 20250 • Editor Named (Continued from Page 1) one form oi another for most of his 40 years This experi ence began with 12 baby chicks laised in a box with an electric light bulb, at about age 10, grew to 500 layers plus vegetables, both foi a retail maiket, as a teenager, and included caring for 6,000 Rhode Island Reds on a poul tiy bleeding faim m Con necticut Don’s academic tiammg was extended over a 15\ eai peri od This tiaimng began with two yeais at the University of Connecticut, Next he completed the t vo; eai couise in Poultiy Husbandly at the Long I'land Agi icultural & Technical Institute. Farming dale T '’V giaduatmg in 1950. It n 1957 bofoic he returned o sJiool, and this time it was to the University of Rhode Island He received his B.S. in Agriculture from this in stitution in 1959 Don next worked foi the Poultry Sci ence Department of that Uhi veisity as a giaduate assistant, and in this way earned his M S in Poultry Science in 1961 At this point Don de cided that he had about all the formal education he was interested in for the moment, and decided to get back to woik Don's military service in cluded a stint in the U S. Main time Service, and two years in the Medical Corps with the Aimy He received his honor able discharge in April 1946 aftei serving in the Okinawa campaign. He is maiued and has a 15- yeai old daughtei, Lama, who is a sophomore at Manheim Township High School His wife is a school teacher Don is a member of the Lancastei County Poultry As sn, and selves on the mem bersh'p committee for that or ganization He is also a mem bei of the Lancaster County Swine Pioducers Assn. When you meet Don around the county, take a minute to say hello He’d like very much to know you. 5
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