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Comparative studies of meat III. Rates of fattening in relation to the percentage of muscular and fatty tissue in a carcass

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

E. H. Callow
E. H. Callow
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Low Temperature Research Station, University of Cambridge
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1. It has been shown in a previous paper (Callow, 1948) that, with ‘standard’ carcasses of cattle, sheep and pigs containing more than 18 % of fatty tissue, FT/C, there is a close correlation between FT/C and MT/C, the percentage of muscular tissue. This is shown by the linear regression equation

MT/C = 76·1 — 0·684FT/C ± 1·0 (r= — 0·9782).

The reasons for this close correlation and the effects of varying rates of fattening on the constants of the generalized equation

MT/C = a — bFT/C

have been deduced by a mathematical and biological analysis of the data.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 39 , Issue 4 , October 1949 , pp. 347 - 358
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1949

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