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Show WFA Will Reduce "Take" of Beef For War fteeds Salt Lake City, April 17 The Salt Lake office of Distribution of the War Food Administration announced today that effective April 16, the compulsory set-aside set-aside of beef which packers must make for the armed forces will be reduced from 50 to 40 per cent. DeVon Y. Stewart, area supervisor super-visor of food distribution, said the order applies to choice, good commercial and utility grades of steer and heifer beef, and that effective April 30 an 80 per cent set aside on the cutter and canner grades will be suspended. To maintain supplies of boneless bone-less beef for the armed forces, however, packers will be required re-quired to bone 90 per cent of all beef set aside, Stewart said. The present percentage is 80 per cent. Stewart said the action that the government will purchase less of the available beef supply, but that civilian supplies will not necessarily be increased be- cause a decline in cattle marketings market-ings this season is expected. I |