Federated Meat Corp. v. Fleming’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““The total maximum permissible payment (without loss of subsidy) for all cattle slaughtered during a monthly accounting period was computed in the following manner: After slaughter, the dressed carcasses were graded. The slaughterer, determined the total tonnage of beef carcasses, by grades', obtained from the cattle slaughtered during the monthly accounting period. The equivalent or ‘calculated’ live weight of cattle in each grade slaughtered during the period was computed from the dressed carcass weights by the use of conversion factors or average dressing percentages, each dressing percentage being the ratio of the weight of the dressed carcass of the particular grade to the calculated live weight of the animal. These conversion factors, which were determined and certified to the Defense Supplies Corporation by joint order of the Price' Administrator and the War Food Administrator, were as follows for the different grades: Choice, 61%; good, 58%; commercial or medium, 56%; utility or common, 54%; canner and cutter, 46%; and bulls of canner and cutter grade, 53%. That meant, for example, that a steer of ‘choice’ grade was assumed to yield a dressed carcass weight of 61% of the live weight; and so on, through the various lower grades. The calculated live weight did not necessarily coincide with the actual weight of the steer before slaughter, but was arrived at by working backward from the graded dressed carcass, the weight of which was divided by the standard percentage yie”

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