—Lancaster Farming, Friday, May 25, 1956 16 Prices Much Higher in Chicken of Tomorrow Sales Over Pennsylvania HARRISBURG Spirited bidding bi ought moie than twice as much at auctions May 16 for the second and third place lots of hi oiler chickens than the grand champion entiy in the 1956 Pennsylvania Chic ken-of-Tomon ow contest, the State Poultry Federation has an nounced. A round-up of the five regional sales revealed the top price of $6 pei pound was paid foi the icserve champion lot of 12 diessed ll’i week broilers at Coatesville and the third ranking lot brought the same price at Butlei. At the Fiancoma auction m Montgomery Ccfunty the state champion lot entered by George Fachet, Kintnersville, Bucks County, was bought for $2 40 a pound by Price’s Hatchery, Tel £ol d The 12 birds weighed 414 pounds and brought young Fa chet $99 36 The reserve champion lot entered by Ronald Shaffer? Dover, Yoik County, weigh ed 43 5-8 pounds, netting the owner $261.75 for 12 birds from the Beacon Mill ing Company, Cayuga, N. Y. The same price of $6 per pound went to the state wide third place lot at But ler, entered by Robert Rodgers, Butler RD 2, a total of $207.05 for ten birds in his lot. 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Ephrata, R.D. 2 total sold represents the best recoid in the ten years-of the state contest, officials said The average price received per pound for all lots came to 58 66 cents at Coatesville Total weight of the 688 entries sold was 27,248 pounds and returns to the entrants totaled $15,- 520 86' Nearly 200 buyers par ticipated in the auctions. Dr E I Robertson, Lancas ter, contest chairman, said of ficials were highly pleased with results of the contest to inter est young people m poultry pro duction and develop improved quality broiler and fryer chic kens He said that the Poultry Federation, on pre-arrangement with the contestants, obtained two broilers fiom each boy or girl who finished third to 17th inclusive, for public relations purposes Each of the 15 en trants, will be reimbursed by the Federation for these birds, he explained The three highest prices paid at each of the five auctions fol low Franconia 58 lots sold, av ei aging 66 8 cents a pound foi 2,086 pounds, a total of- $l, 393 38 First, George Fachet second, two lots at $l5O per pound each, Bruce C Laub, Neffs, Lehigh County, 35 4 pounds at a total of $5310 bought by Lehigh Farm Bureau, D Richard Landes, Fountam ville, Bucks County, 39 72 pounds, $5B 5R S 5 • **' : ■ . «•> « * * 40 * ► *w f . .t E. L. Herr Peach Bottom Three Highest Prices /-* **> f t 9 • mm vAuir of cmmmmn ans> income rut persoh 1935-39 *OP 300 £OO 1100 ■>•-> AoSv^ywtJtm* 1920 As Americans eat their way through record quantities of meat, they find them selves paying a smaller proportion of their income for it As can be seen on the above chart, from 1920 to 1938 there was a close, relationship between the disposable in come per person m the United States and the retail value of meat consumed. Dur ing World War 11, that balance was upset because meat was in short supply for civilian consumption and the “black mar ket” was dominant. Official retail meat prices were held down as consumer in come rose steeply Controls were removed Coatesville 233 lots sold, averaging 57.5 cents a pound, 8,928 pounds netting 55,101.08. First, Ronald Shaffer; second, Shirley Ann Ream, Lebanon RD 2, $5 per pound for ten birds paid by Miller and Bushong, Lancaster, 33 pounds for 5165; third, James Clanton, Kennett Square, $4 per pound for ten birds, 5132 paid by L. L. Logan, Ken nett Square. Mandata, sold at Susquehanna Lockers, S anbury 111 lots sold, averaging 52 5 cents a pound, 4,948 5 pounds netting $2,575 34 Fast, Ernest B Hartz ler, Mechanicsburg, $2 50 per pounds for ten birds, 33 5 pounds for $B3 75 paid by Am erican Stores Company, second, William Haines, fiddle Creek, Snyder County, $1 26 per pound for 35 75 pounds or $45 05, bought by Weis Stores, Sum bury, fhird, Stanley C Moyer, Milton RD 1, 94 cents a pound for 38 pounds, $35 72 paid by Pennsylvania Farm Bureau. Hollidaysburg 154 lots sold, averaging 53 cents a pound, 6,- '739 pounds netting $3,57156 Fast, Edwin Sell, Woodbury, Bedford County, $125 per pound, 52 75 pounds for $65 94 from Dr Salisbury’s Laborac tones, Charles City, lowa, sec ond, James Harclerode, Bed ford RD 2, 65 cents a pound foi 42 5 pounds, $27 63 paid by Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, thud, tie at 60 cents a pound among Richard Heltzel, Martms burg, Vincent Hines, Hollidays burg and Carl Johnson, Altoona RD Buyeis were Villa Restaui ant, Tyrone, A & P Food Stores, Altoona and H B Puce, Hollidaysburg.' Butler 132 lots sold, aver aging 63 5 cents a pound, 4,547 pounds netting $2,889 50 The thiee top prices for ten birds each went to Robert Rodgers at $6 per pound from P G Oster ling Feed Company, Butler; Charles E. Defu, $l7O a pound from Mrs Delu, and Robert Wagel, Valencia, $1 a pound from Mellon National Bank and Trust Co, Butler These three lots ranked third, fifth and Less Income For Meat MEAT AND INCOME VcftHl tf Mml C*wwi#<i, . \%/ I ' S. * * S S / '4930 * {Nsjoirtit mm 0 0m fourth, respectively, in the state wide judging at Hollidaysbuig on Tuesday Last yeai’s winner of the Pennsylvania COT contest, Sara Ann Herr, Rohrerstown. Lancas tei County, received $6 50 a MEW €iST in feeding eests Full 36-inch wide cylinder. Built-in sharpener. Look to FORAGE for savings on feed in 1950. Now you can cut and chop every type of forage crop with low-cost, two plow power Move each load from field to storage in minutes. 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The average spent for meat was $77.30 apiece, or 6.7 per cent Since then there has been a steady widening m the two lines, with disposable income per person far above retail meat values Last year, when con sumers ate a record quantity of about 26 5 billion pounds of meat, consumer dispos able income was $1,608, of which $B2 10, or 5 1 -per cent, went for meat. i* <i>. sw / ' * N > '** *> * ~ "fir*!— A- -s > y * w 1950 t s* pound for her entiy This year she finished 10th in statewide judging and at Coatesville ie ceived $3 per pound The aver age for the first 20 lots of birds sold at the spirited Coatesville auction was $1 85 p§r pound Stop in and let us tell you about the Forage Harvester. / .**■ >/ W6O
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