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VOLUME 22

1934

NUMBER 8

A /JTEU

Washington, Friday, January l i , J957

They ,usually have only traces of red in the ribs and shanks.
d Mutton carcasses always have Chapter I Agricultural Marketing Service Standards, Inspections, spool joints on their front shanks and Marketing Practices, Department generally have wide rib bones, a wide, spready forequarter, and a dark red of Agriculture color and coarse texture of lean. Ribs and shanks usually are devoid of red P art 53 L iv e s t o c k , M e a t s , P r epared M eats, a n d M e a t P r o d u c t s G r a d in g , color.
Cer tificatio n , a n d S t a n d a r d s
53.115
Application of standards.
a Lamb, yearling mutton, and mutton OFFICIAL UNITED STATES STANDARDS FOR
carcasses are graded on a composite LAMB, YEARLING MUTTON, AND MUTTON
evaluation of two general grade factors CARCASSES
conformation and quality. These factors On October 31, 1956, a notice of pro are concerned with the proportions of posed rule making was published in the thé various wholesale cuts and the pro F ederal R egister 21P. R. 8322 regard portions of meat and bone in the carcass ing the amendment of the official United and the quality of the lean, respectively.
States standards for lamb, yearling b Conformation is the manner of mutton, and mutton carcasses, under the formation of the carcass with particular provision of sections 203 and 205 o f the reference to the relative development of Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, as the muscular and skeletal systems, al amended 7 U. S. C. and Supp. H I 1622 though it is also influenced, to some ex and 1624.
tent, by the quantity and distribution of After due consideration of all relevant external finish. The conformation of a material submitted pursuant to the carcass is evaluated by averaging the notice, and under the aforesaid sections conformation of its various component of the Agricultural Marketing A ct of parts, giving consideration not only to 1946, as amended, the official United the proportion of each cut to the carcass States standards for lamb, yearling weight but also to the general desirability mutton, and mutton carcasses 7 CFR of the cut as compared with other cuts.
53.114-53.118 are amended to read as Best coriformation implies a high pro follows:
portion of edible meat to bone and a high 53.114 Differentiation "between lamb, proportion of the weight of the carcass yearling mutton, and m utton carcasses, in the more demanded cuts and is indi a Ovine carcasses are classified as cated by a compact, blocky, plump, full, "Nnb, yearling mutton, or mutton, on the well-rounded appearance. Inferior con basis of differences that occur in the formation implies a low proportion o f development of their muscular and skele edible meat to bone and a low proportion tal systems.
o f the weight of the carcass in the more b Lamb carcasses always have break demanded cuts and is indicated by a j0 on their front shanks and genrangy, angular, thin, sunken appearance.
orany have narrow rib bones, a relatively Externaf fa t in excess of that normally arrow, compact forequarter, and a left on retail cuts is not considered in hSht red color and fine texture of lean, evaluating conformation.
c Quality of the lean flesh is best u s u a lly have a considerable amount i red in the ribs and a somewhat smaller evaluated from consideration of its color, texture, firmness, and marbling, as amount in the shanks, v Yearling mutton carcasses may observed in a cut surface, in relation to ave either break joints or spool joints the apparent maturity of the animal n their front shanks and generally have from which the carcass was produced.
oaerately wide rib bones, a slightly However, in grading carcasses or sides in th ofor sPready appearance through which direct observation of these char e forequarter, and a slightly dark red acteristics is not possible, the quality o f or and slightly coarse texture of lean.
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TITLE 7 AGRICULTURE

CONTENTS
Agricultural Marketing Service Proposed rule making:
Grape beverage ; frozen concen trate ; U. S. standards______ _
Rules and regulations:
Lamb, yearling mutton, and mutton carcasses; official U. S.
standards____________ 1______

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Agriculture Department See also Agricultural Marketing k Service; Commodity Credit Cor poration; Commodity Stablization Service.
Notices :
New Mexico; designation of area for production emer gency loans__________________

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Air Forcé Department Rules and regulations:
Officers Reserve; short and special tours of active duty_

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Alien Property Office Notices :
American Voith Contact Co., Inc.; dissolution order.,______
Vested property; intention to return:
Rissmann, Luise____________
Wessel, Prosper_____________

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Army Department See Engineers Corps.

Atomic Energy Commission Notices:
AM P Atomics, Inc.; proposed issuance of facility export license_______________________

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Civil Aeronautics Board Notices:
Hearings, etc.:
Compañía Nacional de Tu
rismo Aereo Cinta Lim i tada _________________________ 246
Delta-C&S M ail Rate case reopened__________________
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Rules and regulations:
Airman identification card re quirements:
Aircraft dispatchers________
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Lighter-than-air pitots______
Mechanics and repairmen___
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