Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 13, Number 8, DeMotte, Jasper County, 1 January 1943 — MEAT ORDER AFFECTS FARMERS BUTCHERING FOR OTHERS [ARTICLE]

MEAT ORDER AFFECTS FARMERS BUTCHERING FOR OTHERS

Every person in the United States who slaughters and delivers to others even so much as one animal of < the . sort listed in the meat restriction order of October Ist is subject to the restrictions of the order OPA has advised. Fanners who slaughter animals only for their own use are exempt. Animals covered are cattle, calves, sheep, lambs and hogs. Delivery of meat from these animals to civilians is limited so that there shall Im enough for the fighting forces of the United States and its Allies. Records of all slaughter for delivery to others must be kept and be available to inspectors of OPA, by everyone from the county butcher, or the farmer who slaughters meat for oth ers, to the largest packing honse. These facts are stated by OPA emphatically to call attention to the wide scope of the order. All Slaughters, including small country slaughterers and butchers, and custom slaughterers who kill animals belonging to others, as are farmers who kill animals except for the use of themselves and their families. Slaughterers, other than those killing more than 500,000 pounds in a 3 months period are limited to no more than the same amount of each of the kinds of meat that thev slaughtered and delivered in the same months period of 1941. Large slaughterers are limited to deliveries considerably below. 1941 levels.

’ While farmers may butcher their own meat supply without any restrictions or reports, farm families are asked to voluntarily limit their consumption of beef, veal, lamb, mutton, and pork, including canned meats and sausage to their fair share of two and onehalf pounds per week for men, women and children over 12, one and one-half lbs. for children 6 to 12 and three quarter, lbs. for children under 6. Poultry, fish and variety meats such as kidney, liver, brains, sweetbreads, and tongue do not need to be counted in your two and a half lbs. and are not restricted. Rumors to the effect that farm butchering for family consumption will be stopped, that farmers will pay the government a certain amount for each animal butchered or that their stored meat will be in spected are unfounded.