2—Lancaster Farming, Friday, January 13, 1956
Hogs Lower in
Week; Top $l3,
Few at $13.25
LANCASTER
WEDNESDAY TO WEDNESDAY
REVIEW
By , David S. Lorenson, Reporter
(JSDA Market News Bureau
'(Wednesday to Wednesday Re
view)—Cattle: 3000 week ago
2361 Compared with last Wed
nesday slaughter steers 1200 lbs
(and lighter slow, mostly steady-
Demand narrow for weights 1250
lbs and over, very slow, mostly
'soc lower, 'poor -clearance Heifers
moderately active, about steady,
cows and bulls mostly -steady.
Stookers and feeders slow, fully,
steady to strong. Around 40 (per
eent of the supply stoekers and
feeders and 12 ner cent cows.
Bulk choice fed steers 975-1250
Bibs sl® 50-21.50. several loads
Hugh choice and prime 1094-1336
lbs $2200-2250, part load 1098-
lb prime steers $2300, load 1200
(Lbs prune $23.25 Several loads
good ~ and choice 1067-1325-Jb
FOR SALE
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Air Compressor
With Blade and Winch, also includ
ing breaker. Rock Drill, Hose and
various other air tools.
A. $. KINSINGER
Gordonvillc, Pa.
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are timed tested, scientifically balanced, vitamin complete and are 8
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24%, Yeast Egg Mash .435 g
Horse Feed . . - 3.60 tj
20% Hog Feed . . 4.00 H
16% Blue Bird Dairy . 2-65 g
20% Blue Bird Dairy 2.85 H
Enriched Fitting Ration 3.30 «
Fine Chick Feed . . 470 §
Super A Dog'Meal 25 lb 2.05
Rabbit Pellets
B Starter Meg
Broiler Ration . . 4.70
Grower Crumbles 425
Blue Bird All Mash Egg 365
20% Quality Egg Pellet:, 4-10
g STORE HOURS : Mon. Thru Fn. Bto 5.30 Sat. r 8 to 5.
j; Special discount on all chick orders thru January
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ll 947 Harrisburg Ave. Phone Lane. 4-7715
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♦; WE DELIVER 10c per hundred discount on half ton lots or more
R PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE
itecrs $lB 00-20 00 Most good
steers 1150 lbs and lighter $l7-50-
13.50 (Some commercial $15.00-
17 GO Gcod and choice heifers
$l6 00-20 00, part load 1020 libs
fc.tgh Choice and prime $21.50.
Utility and commercial cows
$l2 25-13 50, oanners and cutters
largely $9 00-12 50, Hugh yielding
cutters to $l3 00 Utility and com
mercial 'bulls $l5 00-18.50, a .few
good and Choice fed bulls 890-
1200 lbs sl’B 75-20 00. A few cut
ter bulls $13.50-14 00. Bulk med
ium and good 60P-900 lb feeder
steers $l5 00-17.00, several dots
and loads good and choice 700-
975 lb feeder stears $17.25-1800.
a few lots choice $lB 25-19-00,
load 590-lib choice stock steer
(calves $2O 75.
Calves; 860, week ago 914. De
mand good for veal calves, trad
ing Active, prices fully steady.
Bulk good and choice vealers,
$23.00-28-00; high dhoice and
prime $2B-50-33 00, some prime
Carly to $35.00. Utility and com
mercial $l4-00-22.00
Hogs - 1740 week ago 1860
Supply (mainly trucked in barrows
and gilts. Trading moderately
active, steady to 25c lower than
Fast Wednesday, sows around
$lOO tower. Bulk (barrows and
grits U S- mixed 160-220 lbs Wed
nesday $l2 75-13-00, a few to local
small killers at $13.25. Similar
grades Monday to $l4 00. Weights
230-270 lbs. $11,.50-12.75- A few
.sows 400 lbs and lighter $9.50-
10-50; over 400 lbs $B.OO-925.
Sheep: 260, week ago 485. Com
pared with last Wednesday: wool
ed slaughter lambs mostly steady.
Bulk (good and choice 67-94 lb
wooled slaughter lambs' $l7 00-
20-50, a few choice and prime
81-93 lb $2l-00-21-50. Aged
ter 'sheep too scarce for market
test.
4.75
4.25
Broilers Off,
Thursday Top
Paid Is 22.5
Lancaster Poultry Exchange
(Rohrerstown) (Sales Report
- Sale #ll4, 'Thursday, Jan. 5,
1956) Prices declined Thurs
day at the Lancaster Poultry
Auction with an average of 21-81
cents on 127,030 birds offered*
Fifty lots of 137,380 birds were
listed, 49 lots of 134,880 offered,
and 44 lots of 128,905 sold. Broi
ler offerings mclu'ded 127,030
birds in 42 lots, ranging from
19% cents to 22%, averaging
21-81. One lot of 1800 Leghorn
fowl sold at 1714, and 75 Broad
Breasted Bronze turkeys sold at
35% ■
Twenty-two buyers were on
hand and the 22% tap was paid toy
John Thomas, R 6 Lancaster, for
450 White Mountains, 11 weeks,
two'days old, consigned by John
B- Seagrist, Bird-In-Hand Other
sales toy seller and grower,
amount and breed, age by week
and days,* buyer and price, were:
J. Harold Eby, 1500 Meat
packers, 9-6, to Walter C. Mellm
ger, 21; Shaqaman, Inc. (Wm-
Lewis), 3000 Wliite Cross, 10-3,
to Harry H. Weaver, Jr., 20%;
Shanaman, Inc., (J. Edward
Stouff 1000 White Cross, 10-3, to
Producers Coop. Exchange, 20.
Miller & Bushong was the sel
ler of the next three lots, listed
here by grower: (Frank Destaf
tono), 2300 I Red Vantress, 9-5, to
Grimes & Hauer, 20%; (Paul
Wertz) White Vantress, 10-2, to
Mandata Poultry, 21; (Fred H.
;3hericTO 3600 Red Vantress Leg
horns, 10 weeks, to Roy E, Ream,
20%;
Noah D Zook, 2000 Indian
River Cross, 10-3, no sale, 19%
bid; Herbert Pendleton, 800
White Vantress, 10-2, Bolton’s
Plant- 21%; Raymond S Kauff
man. 250 Meatpackers, 10-2, to
Robert Charles, 22; Martin Mil
ler, 5400 White Vantress, 9-5, to
Mandata 21%; Oliver
Mast, four lots, first lot 4500
White Vantress, 9-2, to Harry H-
Weaver. Jr., 21; second lot, 3000
White Vantress, 9-2, to Harry H-
Weaver, Jr., 21%; third lot 3000
White Vantress, 9-2, to Mandata
Poultry, 21%; and fourth lot,
3200 White Vantress, 9-2, to Vic
tor F- Weaver. Inc, 21;
Wenger’s Mill (Beecher For
ney) 1800 Red Vantress, 11
weeks, to R J. Brendle, 21%;
Wenger’s Mill (David Heisey,
Jr.) 2000 Indian River Cross. 10
weeks, to Pennsylvania- Hutch
Farms,' 21; Kenneth McCracken,
seller and (Mervm Hess (grower)
750 White Cross, 10 weeks, 3
days, to Roy E. Ream 19%;
Kenneth McCracken (Jacob Fish
er, Jr.) 1350 White Vantress, 10
weeks, to Victor F. Weaver, Inc.,
20%; Miller &.Bushong seller in
five lots, by growers (John L.
Herr) 2100 White Vantress; 2100
Red Vantress, 10 weeks, to Pa.
Dutch Farms, 20%; (Elwood Her
shey) 3500 White Vantress, 10
weeks, to Grimes & Hauer, 21;
and 3500 Meatpackers, 9-3 to
Victor F- Weaver, Inc-, 21; (John
B. iSiegrist) 450 White Mountains,
11-2, to John N- Thomas, 22%;
J. Lloyd Rohrer, 1000 Red
Vantress, 11-1, to Roy E- Ream,
22; George Weaver, 2400 Red
Vantress, 11-1, to Leola Poultry,
21, Irvin B. Gingrich, 2500 In
dian River Cross, 10 weeks, to
Roy E. Ream, 21%; John V. Erb,
4000 Indian River Cross, 9-3, to
Harry H. Weaver, Jr., 21; Jacob
N. EShekrtan, 8400 Red & White
v: 0-4, to Grumes & Hauer, 20%;
R. B. Ludwig, 1800 Leghorn
Fowl Yearlings, to Victor J-
Koser, 17%; Aaron'Lapp, 600
White Vantress, 11 weeks, no:
sale, 20% bid;
Paul Becker, 480 White Vant
ress, 9-6, to Walter B. Lehman,
22; Miller & Bushong (Norman
Peifer), 1900 Indian River Cross
Leghorns, 11-6, to Tilley’s Poul
try, 21%; Samuel Kolb, three
lots, lot one, 6500 White Vant
ress, 10-2, to Grimes & Hauer,
21; lot two, 6500 White Vantress,
10-2, to Grimes & Hauer, 21; lot
three, 3500 White Vantress, 10-2,
to Horace W Longacre, 21%;-
Milton Kolb, 600 New Hampshire
Capettes, 15-6, no sale, 25% bid;
Norman B. Kready, 950 Indian
River Cross, 10-3, to Harry H.
Weaver, Jr., 20%; Eli N- Martin,
Attendance at
Farm Show Up;
Attendance at the Pennsylvania
Farm Show turned upward at
midweek, following Monday’s
storm which iced up highways
all over the southern end of the
state. Monday struck post-war
low of 60,000 Tuesday attendance
increased to 110.000 and pros
pects were expected to equal
Wednesday through the balance
of the show’s run.
Lancaster County farmers con
tinued their Winning streaks, with
372 ribbon and premium awards
in the first two days. Wednesday
Irl A. Baffin’s Warwick Farms
alt Lititz scored grand champion
ship in Shorthorn females on the
heifer “Warwick’s Princess.” Re
serve senior Champion female
was another Lititz neighbor, Leon
’r. Risser’s Clayhills Crocus.
Monday’s storm almost paralyz
ed Lancaster County, and travel
was/ treacherous in all sections
of the County, ydt that storm,
and rains through Wednesday
gave almost a quarter inch of
"badly needed moisture here.
EGGS
[Philadelphia Jan 11—Market
steady. Demand improved. Sup
plies of all grades were- more
(than adequate for current re
quirements.
Wholesale selling prices: Mm
ilO Pet AA quality large 45-50#
White 53-54, Brown 50-51, Med
ium White 49-50, Brown 48-49.
Extras, min 60 Pet quality.
Large _45-50# White 48-48%,
'BrowTnone, mixed 47-47%, med
ium White 46-47, Brown none,
mixed 46-46%. Standards _43-44,
current receipts none, 'cheeks
40-42.
Receipts Jan 10 - 3,174 cases
two lots, lot one, 4000 White
Vantress, 9-6, to Grimes & Hauer,
21% and lot two, 4000 White
Vantress, 9-4, to Mandata Poultry,
21;
Aberdeen Mills-L. Miller con
signed four lots: lots one and two,
2400 Red Vantress and *3400 Red
Vantress, tooth 6-2, to Pennsyl
vania Dutch Farms, both at 21;
lot three, 3600 White Vantress,
9-2, Mandata Poultry, 21% and
lot four, 2200 Indian River Cross,
9-2, to Pennsylvania Dutch Farms,
21.
Turkey Toms Sell
Two lots of Broadbreasted
Bronze turkeys were offered by
H- Raymond Stoner, one of 75
Toms selling'to Robert Charles
at 35% and 75 Hens, no sale, 39
bid;
Millport Roller Mills (Harry
(Boyer) 4200 White Vantress, 10-6,
to Mandats Poultry, 20%; Miller
&--Bushong (Samuel Blank) 1000
White Vantress, 10-6, to Tilley’s
Poultry, 21; Marlin H Mummau,
2500 Red Vantress Capettes, 13-2,
withdrawn prior to sale, and 2700
Red Vantress Capettes, 13-2, no
sale, 22% bid; Philip F. Foster,
10,000 White Vantress, 10-2, to
Grimes & Hauer, at -21%.
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Farmall “M”
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John Deere “A”
UsedN.H. 75 and 77 Balers
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Dearborn Forage Harvester
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Soil-Bank Plan
Cuts Croplands
12 pc on Surplus
WASHINGTON— A nine-point
program that includes a billion
dollar soil-bank plan reducing
croplands about 12 per cent un
til (farm surpluses are absorbed
and farm prices advance again,
has been presen to President
Efisenhower by Secretary of Agr t
culture Ezra Taft Benson.
Briefly, the nine points'are - 1.
soil bank to reduce present sur
pluses, prevent future surpluses;
2, expansion of surplus disposal,
into Iron Curtain countries if
necessary; 3, strengthened com
modity programs; 4, dollar limits
on price supports, 5, rural de
velopment program; 6, greater
aid to drouth-plagued Great
Plains states; 7, 25 per ( cent in
crease in funds for research on
new crops, new uses and mar
kets; 8, agricultural credit pro
gram, and 9, exempting farmers
from 2-cent<per-gallon federal
gasoline tax for fuel used in
farming operations
The President asserted there
is need for maximum speed to
alter an economic situation in
which farmers find their prices
and incomes depressed amid the
nation’s greatest prosperity
LIVE POULTRY
—By USD A
■Philadelphia Jan 11—Market
unsettled Demand fair for ade
quate supplies of most classes.
White Rooks and Barred Bock
Cross Pullets 31-S6, few lots
h’lgher Large White Rook Capon
ettes 30-33, few lots 34-35. No. 2
Qual. 25-26 without clearing. Few
lots Roasters 25-28, few' lots
stags 19, old Roosters and stage*
maxed 12-15. Cross fryers straight
Cockerels 221t-23, White Rocks
22-*S3, Vantress Reds 22-23, few
ilots 25-26. No 1 quality mixed
broilers 15c down to Bc.
'Turkeys Demand good for
light N supplies. Bronze Young
Dens femriots 46
Wholesale selling .prices No 1
and fancy quality broilers or
fryers heavy type 3-4 lbs 22-26,
'Boasters 25-28. Pullets 4% libs
and over 31-36 hens, heavy type,
23-32 light type 15-21. Old roost
.ers 12-15. Dutoks Muscovy 24-26,
Pekins 32. Turkeys Young Hens
46-
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