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| 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.
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• Editor Named
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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.
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