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Show New Slaughter Re gulations Do Not 4 Restrict Numbers Marketed Cat-lie slaughter regulations in no way restrict the number that may be slaughtered, J. Vern Hop-kin Hop-kin member of the Utah state AAA committee has announced. Regulations affecting slaughterers slaughter-ers pertain to licensing, grading, . set-aside for Government purchase, and. collection of ration points, he explained. To correct with facts erroneous information which seems to be rather prevalent Mr. Hopin pointed point-ed out that: 1. Any farmer may slaughter and deliver the meat from any number of livestock owned by him without license or permit or making mak-ing any report to the Federal Government. , . 2. Any person, other than a far mer slaughtering his own livestock, live-stock, must have a license in order to legally slaughter, but there are no restrictions on the number of livestock tha the may slaughter. 3. Any person who slaughters livestock exclusively for others on a fee basis must obtain a custom slaughterer's license, but there is no limitation on the number he may slaughter. 4. All slaughterers who slaughter weekly more than 51 head of cattle cat-tle that produce "Army-style" beef must set aside a portion of the output for the Government, which must be Federally inspected. The percent set aside depends upon the needs of the Armed forces. , 5. All slaughterers except those "who slaughter less than 50 head of cattle weekly and less than 300 head of livestock annually are required re-quired to submit monthly reports to the - ar Food Administration. i 5 This report in no way is a limita- tion on the number of livestock which they may slaughter. 6. Slaughterers must comply with OPA regulations regarding grading of meat and the collection i of ration points. Grading costs $2.20 per hour, plus transportation ' of grader. ' Unless meat is graded by an of- ficial grader of the U. S. Depart- , ment of Agriculture, the slaughterer slaughter-er must sell it at least 12M cents per 100 lbs. less . than the ceiling price for the . appropriate grade. . This. 12' cents per 100 lbs., in , most cases, fully compensates . for the cost of . grading. Where a Government grader is not avail- able, a request can be filed for I exemption by a small slaughterer j and he may be permitted to grade his own meat but he must take the same deduction. As a result of an ienrease of nearly 25 percent in cattle numbers num-bers since 1939 from 66,000,000 head to 82,200,000 on January 1, 1944, numbers are out of balance with feed supplies. Mr. Hopkin explained that although heavy early marketing of cattle in market mar-ket condition has been urged by WFA, these marketings have not approached the volume considered sufficient to ease the threat of serious marketing jams. The trend in slaughter for the first six months of this year has been considerably con-siderably above last year but below be-low the rate needed to meet the slaughter goal. If the present trend continues, total cattle numbers num-bers on farms and ranches will not be materially changed from the record number on hand the ( first of the year Mr. Hopkin said. |