—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 21, 1965
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Reducing Costs
Of Processing
Poultry
Poultry processing costa
can be reduced substantial
ly by weighing and packing
cut-up poultry parts with a
new mechanized system, says
the U. S. Department of Ag
riculture.
USDA’s Agricultural Re
search Service and the Uni
versity of Georgia Agricultur
al Experiment Stations co
operated in developing auto
matic equipment that in
creases labor productivity and
fills packages to desired
weights more accurately than
manual systems do.
In manual systems a work
er often selects seven or
eight pieces before he finds
one of the right weight to
complete the package In con
trast, he can select the right
piece immediately when us
ing the mechanized system.
The parts are carried over
a belt conveyor, automatical
ly weighed, and sorted into
diffeient bins according to
their weight To select the
final piece needed to com
plete a package, the worker
presses a button; the equip
ment then electronically checks
the weight of the package and
c Hoffman
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flashes n light over the bin
containing the pari of the
weight needed, which the
worker then places in the
package.
The electronic system match
es the weight designated on
the package label with great
er precision than is attained
in manual systems. This pre
cision and the time saved
in selecting parts accounts
for the savings obtained by
using the new equipment.
USD A Tobacco
Health Study
The U. S Department of
Agriculture has awarded nine
contracts to the University
of Kentucky, Lexington, for
research on health-i elated as
pects of tobacco.
These contracts, totaling $l,-
119,204, will run concurrently
for 2 l k years, as part of an
intensified research effort by
USDA’s Agricultural Research
Service to identify and learn
how to prevent or remove in-
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jurlouj substances from to- ato the effectiveness of ro- through brooding, of tobacco
bacco or tobacco smoko. medial measures that have varieties free of pouiiblo
Funds for the expanded pro- been proposed or might bo harmful substances; and (3)
gram were appropriated by developed. the development of curing,
Congress following release of Among these measures are handling, and marketing moth*
an advisory committee report (1) ‘the use of chemical ods to prevent metabolic
to the 'Surgeon General on modifiers for cigarettes to al- changes that adversely alter
smoking and health. ter the composition of - the tobacco con)posltion>
smoke; (2) the development,
In addition to research con
ducted under contract, ARS
is strengthening its own re
search at (Lexington, in co
operation with the Kentucky
Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion; at Oxford, N. C.; in co
operation with the North
Carolina Agricultural Experi
ment Station; at the Eastern
utilization research labora
tory, Philadelphia; and at
Beltsville, Md. All of this re
search on health-related as
pects of tobacco is being co
ordinated toy Dr. Marion W.
Parker, Associate Administra
tor of ARS.
Five of the Kentucky con
tracts, totaling $776,624, will
support research to develop
improved chemical and bio
logical tests that will identify
tobacco and smoke components
in terms of their effects when
applied to animal tissues. Re
sults obtained in these tests
will then be used to evalu-
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