USD A investigates suspect Australian meat imports WASHINGTON, D.C. - The-U.S. Department of Agriculture has ordered its inspection force to seek out shipments of beef imported from an Australian slaughter plant because they may contain hor semeat. The department has also asked the cooperation of private meat industry representatives in COMPUTERIZED DAIRY FEEDING SYSTEMS Simple - Precise Dependable - Inexpensive <r y THE DAT A-FEED SYSTEM costs less - prices include computer, I D Tags and feeders. Number of cows System cost Monthly lease payment The DATA-FEED SYSTEM increases cash flow by increasing production and reducing feed costs Projected increase* @ 180 per cow per year $5400 $lO,BOO $21,600 $43,200 $85,500 Annual lease payments -$1272 -$1620 -$2304 -$3708 -$6504 EXTRA CASH FLOW per year * Based on University of Missouri figures from “Feeding according to production”, and saving only one pound of feed and gaining only 3 pounds of milk per cow per day on a herd average. 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ROI, Lebanon, PA 17042 Phone: 717-866-4906 or: 717-866-4555 locating meat from the plant. "We have seized all suspect meat that has been found and we are actively tracing the remain der,” said Donald L. Houston, administrator of UfsDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. The department has initiated action to delist the plant, thereby blocking Increases Milk Production - Saves Feed With an I.D. tag on each cow, and a highly accurate scanner located in each feeder the computer is able to exactly identify and control the amount of feed each cow can have, based on her milk production. 30 $5646 $lO6 60 $7194 $135 *4128 *9lBO *19,296 *39,492 *78.996 8. Automatically divides 24 hour programmed amount into four cycles: EXAMPLE: A cow pro grammed for 20 pounds of feed will get 5 pounds every 6 hours. It automatically carries any left over ration into the next cycles. 9. Has a battery system with re-charging unit for back-up power to keep memory stored in event of a power failure. 10. Just pushing a few buttons will check, display (and print on tape if desired) each bins activity, a cows record, the computers memory, and other information. 11. Priced lower than any other comparable com puterized feeding system on the market- 12. Typewriter keyboard provides for ease of opera tion and allows programs for future such as, data storage, milk monitoringand etc. 13. The computer is of high quality built by Rockwell, the prime contractor for the space shuttle Columbia. SPECIAL DISCOUNT ON THE FIRST ORDER FROM EACH COUNTY IN PA, MD. NJ, NY & DEL. j J FREE INFORMATION (circle and mail) Data Feed ! Computer System, Automatic Feed Milling Systems J (weighs in each ingredient), Grinder-Mixer, Feed j Augers, Tanks, Soybean & Corn Roasters, Grain • Storage Bins, Grain Driers, Bucket Elevators, Trans- I pqrt Augers, Feed Blowers. Scales, Concentrate I Metering Equipment, j Name . _ _. j Address City I State Phone further imports, he said. "At the request of FSIS, the department’s Office of the In spector General has begun an intensive investigation to deter mine the extent to which equine meat may have illicitly entered this country,” he said. Houston said that preliminary 120 240 475 $10,243 $16,491 $28,899 $192 $309 $542 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 5,1981—C37 test results on boned, boxed beef intended tor further processing in this country indicate adulteration of two lots (bulk shipments) by equine meat. The product ap parently was imported from Establishment 1400 (Profreeze), a slaughter plant near Melbourne, Australia. The Australian government announced that it.has suspended all exports from the plant pending further test results, and has pledged full cooperation in the investigation. "Since January 1,1981, some 45 shipments of meat from the plant have been unported into the United States,” Houston said. 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