2 Lancaster - Fanring, Fridav, December 16,, 1955
Mostly Steady
Trade in Steers;
Hog Top-at $13.50
WEDNESDAY TO- WEDNESDAY
REVIEW
By David S. Lorenson, Reporter
USDA Market News Bureau
CATTLE Three days 3236,
week algo 3904. Corn-oared with
Hast Wednesday. Slaughter steers
{average choice and prime mostly
(steady, commercial to average
\dhcice steady to 50c lower. Hei
tfers scarce, mostly steady, cows
land (bulls fully steady Stockers
and -feeders slow, mostly steady-
Bulk of the supply was stocker
and feeder steers, around 30 per
(cent slaughter Steers and heifers
and around 12 per cent cows
Bulk -choice fed steers 1000-1250
Ihs $2OOO-22 00 including pat
load 1495- n lb prime steers at tet
ter price One load 1420-lb prime
bteers $22-60; pait load v IOSI-lb
prime $2365 Numerous loads
good 950-1360-lb steer $lB-19 59
/commercial $l5 5O A few
small lots commercial and goed
aeifers -$l4-50-17 00 Übhty and
Icomanercial cows $llOO-12.75;
canners and -cutters $8.25-11-75
-Utility and Commercial bulls
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Altmans Sufer-A Feeds
are timed tested, scientifically balanced, vitamm, complete and are
manufactured daily in *hree modern plants. Compare our prices.
B Starter Meg 4.05 20 pc. Super A Dairy Feed 335
Grower Crumbles .. 415 16 pc. Blue Bird Dairy.. 2.55
ti Broiler Ration 460 20 pc. Blue Bird Dairy. 275
H 20pc Quality Egg Mash 385 Enriched Fitting Ration 3.15
It Blue Bird All Mash Egg 355 Horse Feed 100 lbs. 350
:j- Scratch Feed 3.35" Super A Dog Feed 25 lbs. 205
It Fine Chick Beed .... 4.60 Rabbit Pellets 100 lbs. 4.65
STORE HOURS ; Mon. Thru Fn. Bto 5.30 Sat Bto 5
12 varieties of Babv Chicks available at all times.
|l Ask about our special discount on early orders for chicks.
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WILLIS H. WEAVER MANAGER
t 947 Harrisburg Ave. Phone Lane. 4-7715
WE DELIVER 10c per hundred discount on half ton lots or more
AT KAUFFMAN’S
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fha aiH a»*ry woman wanli Mt>si.
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SMITH AT CONFERENCE
Lancaster County Extension
Agent '3l M Smith and three
from h,s office attended the
Pennsylvania conference of ex
tension woikrs in Harrisburg this
week The annual meeting open
ed Monday and closed yesterday.
Also at Harrisburg were Harry
S Sloat, associate county agent;
Victor Plastow, assistant county
agent, and Miss Ruth S- Kimble,
home economist-
$l4-50-17-50; cutters $l3 50-14-25
Numerous loads medium and
■good 600-900-ilb stocker and fee
der steers $15.50-1800, load-choi
ce feeder steers $1025; a
-few lots 418-460 lb stock steers
calves and light yearlings mostly
(choree-, About three
toada 390-420 lb good to mostly
choice stock steer calves earned
$22*25
CALVES - 767, week ago* 1093
Compared with test Wednesday*
Veal calves mostly fully steady,'
r-ome choice and prune $lOO
higher Bulk good and choice
$23-50-27 00, high choice and
.prime $2B-00-33 00, odd bead
$3400 and $35 00; utility and
commercial $l4 00-22 20.
HOGS. 1612, week ago 1202-
Ccinr ared w; h last Wednesday:
Beth -hu'Chers and sows mos-%
(steady. Wednesday’s sales bar
rows and gaits U S maxed 1-3,
180-240 'tbs $l2 50-18-00 with a
few smai’i Ms mositfv 1 and 2,
180-220 lbs $lB 25-13-50. Weights
240-270 Ihs $l2 00-12 50- Sows
400 lbs and lighter SILOO-1150,
weights over 400 lbs 010 00-10-75.
SHEEP - 226. week ago 436
Compared nw'h last Wednesday
Wooled slaughter lambs mostly
steady, quality rather plain Bulk
good and choice $lB-00-20 50. one
lot 87-lb choice and prune $2lOO
- and low good $l4 00-17 50.
Israel has formally asked the
United States to sell her arms
“under the most lenient condi
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tions ”
YOU’LL FIND GIFTS FOR ALL
And Hundreds Of Other
m
Items On Display 11
“The Family Gift-Center”
NEW HOLLAND
Price Average
For Broilers
Dec. Bth 19.28
Lancaster Poultry Exchange
(Rotorereltown) (Sale Report, Sale
100, Thursday. Dec. 8, 1955)'
Prices on the Thursday auction
of poultry here ranged from 17%
to 19% on 40 lots of broilers to
average 19 28.
Fifty-cue kits of 124,900 b ids
were offered; 43 lots totaling
106,723 were sold; eight to's of
18,175 were not sold Thursday
One lot of 375 'capons brought
36 V.!, one lot ol 1,000 caoeittes 22,
and one lot of DeKalb 101 fowl
15.
A year ago on the coi respond-
Imlg day, Thursday, Dec-, 8, 1964,
25 lute of 77,700 birds were sold
(from 18 -to 19%, mostly .19.
Sales Tbur®dav hy consignor,
■number, breed, buyer and price
included
Eli B-reneman 375 New Hamp
shire Cap to Roy E Ream 36Vi;
J. Carl -Brulba-ker toon White
'Cross Cap to Boston’s 22; Miller
& Budboug (Raymond LcckarJ)
800 Meat Packers to Producers
Coop. Exc- 18 Vi ; Miller & Bush
■omg (‘Mrs Grace Fisher) 2800
White Rocks to Grimes & Hauer
1914, Miller & Bu;hong (Lester
Shirk) 6000 Meat Padres and
Cornish Cross to Victor F Wea
ver Inc 19 %; Miller & Bu-hong
(Mrs R B'ies’ i mg) 2800 Red Van
tress to Grimes & Hauer 19%:
'Fruitville Farms (Abram
iShenk) 5700 White Van mss to
Harry H. Weaver, Jr 19% and
5000 Red Vantress to Grraes
Hauer at 19%; I. Jacob Brenne
imlan 475 Wh’to Va-n(tre c s -to Dan
iel K Good 13%. Roy H- Fahne
stock 2200 White Vantress and
2200 Whale Mountains to Grimes
& Hauer at 19%; John J- Hess II
(Phare-s Fisher) 800 White Cro e s
to Producers 18%; Jack H Mi
chael three lots Indian River
Cross totaling 10,0000 hrd', \nh
d|Tiavv non ih’ds of 19, 19 and 19%;
Wimi C Sch-uiVtz 7400 .Red and
White Vantre s to Grimes & Hau
er 19%;
Frank M. Herr DeKa’h 1,01 fcwl
■to Victor J Koser 15: He’en Tho
mas 750 Indian River Cross to
Prcdiu'cers 19: Titus Hoover 475
White Va to Producers
Coop. 18%; John J. Hess II (War
ren iHT'2 f h) 2200 Silver Cro's cock
erels to Darnel K. Good at 1714;
John J. He's II (Frank Bradley)
1500 Wli te Vantress to Pro
ducers 19%; Wenger’s (Jo Deitz)
1500 White Cross, no sale, 18%
(bid; Miller & Bushonj (RriVrd
Wile) 750 Indian River Cross
tno <sale, 18)4 hid. Dr C. L
Wetsoh (Ezra Cochran) 4000
Barred Cross cockerels to Pro
ducers 17%;
Mr. Clair Gochenauer 3500 Red
Vantress,to Meaders Poultry 19%,
3500 White Vantress and 2700
White Vantress to Mandata
Poultry 19%, Elmer D. Leaman
4000 Red Vantress to H- Wea-
h
I
Men —Just Wear a Pair 6 MONTHS
EVEN A YEAR! Than bring 'am back-ia us and gat
NEW PAIR FREE !f ,h * y 4vf •*. hord ,r * w
undtr itarmal drying condition
VERINE n 9 skin m Hiriiltlrft - Ivcktkin GLOVES
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t -5 i j
Year Ago Mostly 19
PtfSMMWMWE
Fh. 4-0951
- X * i
ver, Jr. at 18 Vi and 4000 Red
Vantress, same buyer, 19%; Wm-
J. Patterson 3200 Red Vantress
to Grimes & Hauer 19%; Miller
& (Bushong (A- Huber Harmsh)
3200 Indian River Cross to
Grimes & Hauer 19%, also 4400
White Mountains to Harry H-
Weaver, Jr- 19%, 2200 Barred
Cross to Carl B. Risser 19Vs,
5000 White Vantress to Victor
F- Weaver Jr- 19% and 2300
Red Va’ntress to Grimes & Hauer
19%; '
Russell R- Daugherty 675
White Rock £ormsh Cross no
sale, 17Vi bid; Miller & Bushong
(Richard Grossman) 1350 White
Cross to Roy E. Ream 19%; Mil
ler A Bushong (Clair Boraberger)
2000 Meat Packers toi Victor F.
Weaver, inc-, 18%; Miller &
Bushong (Wdmer Kreider) 1500
Red and White Vantress to Vic
tor F. Weaver, Inc. 19%; Robert
Neff 600 Off Color Whites to
Producers 17 V 4; Andrew H- Mil,
ller, three lots each of 2,000
White Vantress to Grimes and
Hauer at 19%; Isaac B- Hoover,
2800 Red Vantress to Harry F.
Weaver, Jr- 19 V 4; Lloyd H, Krei
der 1100 White Vantress to Vic
tor F- Weaver, Inc- 19%; Lloyd
H Kreider 1100 Red Vantress
to Victor F- Weaver Inc- 19%;
Miller & Bushong 5000 Barred
Cross no sole on 15% h,d; Frank
Kmdler 1500 White Cross to
Roy E Ream 18%; Ira G Stolz
fus 250 Sex Link Cockerel's no
sale, 18% bid; C. Roy Bixler
2000 Red Vantress to Walter C.
Mellmger 19%, James Mohan
2000 White Cross to Allen Clark
Ine 19%
Tuesday Poultry
Averages Above
1954, Hit 19.45
Larsc3 c i t er Po"lVy
(Rahrerst'wn) (Sale Repo it, Sale
107, Tueday. Dec. 13. 1955
—'Pip ce. advcncod Tuesday in flic
auction cf pouVry 'here, miwmis
u,t> from Thr -slay’s average of
19-28 to 1945 cn mutch smaller
rec" rats.
There were n> ne IMs cf 17 230
binds offered. Seven Ic's totaling
15700 were roH wth S’X lots of
broilers, 15,550 MVis, eo’d in a
range of 19 to 19%. averaging
1945, One lot of 150 turkey hens
isoi'd .at 42V’. 'Fcr'tSre corre&ipond
urig sale a year aeo, on Dee 14.
1954 11 In 1 -? of 24,450 birds an
b'ud'irio inoo turkeys were of
fered,. four hits totaling 15,000
were scld at 18% to 19, madly
18%
Tuesday’s sales ‘by seller and
grower, 'amount and breed, buyer
and prce intfuded.- Claytsn N.
Thomas 800 Moat Pabkers to Pro
ducers Com iat 19 - Gi°nn H- He*T
(James R BarCev), 4000 Indian
River PutMs (to Producers 19%;
Horace 'Se’ltz, 800 Leghorn, fowl,
no sale, 15% bid: Jack H- Michteel
to Grimes 'and Hauer, three lots
of Indian River Cross, 2,000, 4000
and 4,000 in each at 19%; Mailer
and Busteng (Richard <B- Wole),
750 Intdttan - R'ver 'Cross to Pro
ducers at 19; Glenn H Herr, 500
Indi an River yulle's, no sale, 29
b' dis, (pav’d L. Neff, 150 Broad,
Breasted Bronze turkey hens, to
Bay W. Glib,Me, 42%. and 230
Broad Breasted -Bronze' toms, Ibid
28, no sale
TURKEYS
Philadelphia Dec. 14— Turkeys.
(Frozen Ready-to-Cook) Steady.
Demand fair for hens and good
for toms. Trading was active with
liberal supplies arriving from dis
tant points.
(Wboletvale seT'r.g rn:es: Fryer
Roasters 4-10# 48-50 young hens
8-10# 51 %-52, 10-14# 51 %-52,
14-16# 51 %-52; young toms
14-20# 45 -Vi 48 20-22# 45-45 %,
22-24# 4545 %, 24-28# 4648 %,
28# & nip 60-54. Dressed-Jce
'packed - steady- to firm- Freesu(p
one cent on*hens and' moot size'
of toms. Supplies were light and
demand was very good Fryer
roasters 6-10# 37 %-38, young
hens 10-16# 4546 cents, young
toms 06-20# 36-37 cents, 20-24#
37-38 cents, 24-26# 37-38 cents,
26# & up 37-38 cents-
Ready-to-cook; young chickens
unsettled- -
Prices paid for ice packed poul
try delivered ©failadetplm Ocom.,s
per lb)
Grade A & U-S- grade A 2-3#
-32-34, mostly 32-33.
PROCESSED POULTRY
■Philadelphia Dec- 14—Proc
essed poultry (ice packed) young
idhilcken a barely adequate on
roasters and more than ample on
fryers or broilers.
Hens: Barely steady. Demand
fair Supplies were fully ade
quate on heavy type ana more
Ithian ample on light type- Ke-
Iceilplts Dec. 13 included other
ifihlan turkeys Md 52270# Del
96,000# VA 7,000#
Wholesale selling prices: (grade
a. Qual. including sizable lots to
butchers)
Cents per pound:
(Broilers or friers 1 "4 # 27-30,
2# 27-30, 2 %# 25-27, 2 24-26
3# 23 %-26.
Roasters, 3 ’4# 24-26, 4# 24-28,
4 26-28 %, & up 30-34.
Hens, 6 %-7#, heavy type 24-26,
4 %-6#, heavy type 25-27 4# Se
over, 'light type 22-23, under 4#,
light type 18-20.
DucKbmgs 3033
Eggs
Philadelphia Dec 14 —Market
steady- Demand good- lighter
supplies of all grades were no
more than adequate for current
requirements-
Wholesale selling prices: Min.
10 PCT AA qual large 45-50#
\Wthite 54%-55%, brown 53 %-
54. medium! white 50-51, brown
50-51 Extra, mm- 60 PCT A qual.
Largo 45-58# whcte 52-53%
brown none, mixed 52-53, medium
white 49-50, brown none, mixed
4S-4§ %. standards 49-50, current
receipts none, checks 30-35.
Receipts Dec 13 - 4,745 cases
all by truck
TURKEYS
'PHI-LADELPHA DEC 14,
Turkey market report (rents per
fb for ?rade A & US- ‘pra.de A)
iDressed-Ice packed Steady to
firm- Prices advanced It on hens
(and on most sizes of toms Sup
plies were light and demands iwas
very good- Fryers-Roasters 6-10#
37% 38. young hens 10-14# 45-48,
45-46
Young toms 18-20# 35-37. 20-
2)# 37-38. 22-24# 37-38, 24-26#
37-38, 26 & up 37-38-
Frozen (and fresh) ready-to
teoioSk- 'Steady Demand fair for
bens and good for toms- trading
was active -with liberal supplies
Arriving from distant routs
Fryer-Bcast?,r 4-8# SCF-51, 8-
10# 48-49. 10-14# 47%-49%, Y.
hens 8-10# 51%-52. 10-14# 51% -
52 14-16#- 51% 52 Y. torn*
.14-16#. 46%-48, 16-28# 46-46%.
18-20# 45%-46, 20-22# 45-45%,
24-46%, 26-28# 48-48%, 28# &
up 50-51-
. LOANS
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