Excerpt from Official United States Standards for Grades of Carcass Beef: Under an Act of Congress Approved February 10, 1925 (43 Stat. 822, 844-845, 68th Congress) Tentative United States grades for carcass beef were prepared and were first issued in mimeographed form in June, 1923. After slight changes, they were reissued in April, 1924, and in August of that same year were published as a part of Department Bulletin 1246 entitled, Market Classes and Grades of Dressed Beef. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.