D34—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 17,1984
Lamb grading changed
WASHINGTON, D.C.
The U.S. Department
of Agriculture has
proposed changes in
U.S. standards for
grades of slaughter
lamb, yearling and
sheep.
Thomas H. Porter, of
USDA’s Agricultural
Marketing Service, said
the proposed changes
would align the
Heavy-duty hay fork cited
LITCHFIELD, 11. - The Model
HAF-4048, a heavy-duty hydraulic
adjustable fork with increased
height extension, is being in
troduced by Worksaver, Inc., of
Litchfield, 11. It is the latest ad
dition to Worksaver’s line of 15 hay
handling models.
The 4048 is mounted on the rear
of a tractor, fitting Category II
standard and quick hitches. It can
handle large hay bales and other
bulky Items up to 4,000 lbs, and the
2 - 1/2” diameter hydraulic
slaughter standards
with recently-revised
standards for lamb,
yearling mutton and
mutton carcasses.
The carcass stan
dards were changed to
allow carcasses with
only one break joint - in
a young lamb, the point
where the foot is
removed during
slaughter to be
cylinder raises the forks 48” above
tractor height.
The 4048’s forks adjust from 6”
to 44” center-to-center, and the
optional top link cylinder provides
level and tilt control from the
tractor seat. The top link cylinder
replaces standard Category II
manual top links.
For more information on the 4048
or any Worksaver products, write
Worksaver, Inc., P.O. Box 1000,
Litchfield, Illinois 62056.
classed as lamb if other
maturity charac
teristics are typical of
lamb. Also, feathering -
streaks of fat between
the ribs - was dropped
as a quality factor. The
quality grade now is
based on flank fat
streaking - fat within or
on the flank muscle - in
relations to maturity,
with a minimum of
firmness specified for dardize the quality and with each grade and expected to affect the
each grade. conformation com- drop the cull grade for number of lambs in the
Porter said the pensations, add slaughter lambs and prime, choice and good
proposal for slaughter descriptions of degrees yearlings. grades, he said,
animals will stan- of muscling associated The proposal is not
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