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seeking a product of this grade.
Abandonment of the federal grading was r.nugl.t Dy producers from other settlor.:, less eoiice.ned with meat quality than witfl quantity, and by packers dealing with them.
The Virginia Farm Bureau Fed eration, in urging the Department to continue the grading service, called attention to the fact that 76 percent of Virginia lambs graded “choice” or better last year; that Virginia lambs are raised primarily for meat, and are milk fed and of higher quality than those dt other sections.
The individual packer of lamb and mutton has a choice of packing under federal grading or not, Mr. T. T. Curtis, president of the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation, wrote the Department, and the customer seeking high-grade meat thus can look for the stamp, where as those satisfied with lesser quality can obtain through packers electing not to participate.
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