Z —Lancaster ra**mi:;g, Friday, February 10, 1956
Cattle Off,
Jlogs Lower;
Sheep Gain
By David S. Lorenson, Reporter
USDA Market News Bureau
Lancaster, Feb 9—(Wednes
day to Wednesday ' Review)
CATTLE. 2540, week ago 3050;
Local receipts were reduced
from a week ago but the 12
unfcjor western markets opened
the week with about 15,000 more
cattle than the pnvious tveek
As trading began buyers were
already complaining of, heavy
stocks of carcass beef and the
dressed beef trade opened the
week draggy with a sharply
lower trend. Slaughter steers on
the local market were in for
trouble pricewise fiom the very
start and prices worsened as
trading progressed By Wednes
day slaughter steers, high Choice
and Prime 1150 lbs and lighter,
(were 25-50 c lower, others 75c-l 00
lower than late last week Par
ticularly hard to find were
(buyers for 1250-1450 lb good and
choice grades. Although heifers
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were scarce they shared at least
part ot the decline m a trade
that was weak to 50c lower.
About* the only bright spot in
this week’s trade was in the cow
division where prices held fully
steady with best action on canner
and cutter grades. Utility and
commercial bulls held mostly
steady, influenced by a moderate
offering but butcher bulls good
-and low choice sold around 50c
lower. Stocker and feeder steers
750 lbs and lighter held mostly
steady, however, some weakness
was uncovered on good and low
choice feeders 800 lbs and over,
IMost good'and choice fed steers
950-1250 lbs broupht $l7 00-
20 50, a few lots average choice
to low prime 1025-1125 lb steers
earned $21.00-22 50, two part
loads around 1150 lb pnfhe steers
scored $23 00 and five head 983-
llb weights brought $24.00. Se
veral loads 1300-1400-ilb steers
(cleared from $lB 00-1900, a few
loads good to low choice 1250-
1380 lb steers $17.00 Commer
cial and low good $l5 00-16.75
Commercial and low good heifers
$l5 00-1650, a few 900 lb mostly
good at $l7 25, odd head choice
to $l9 00 Most utility and com
mercials cows sold* from $12.25-
13 75; canners and cutters $9 00-
12 75, high yielding cutters to
$13,25 Bulls, utility and com
mercial, brought $l5 00-17-50, odd
head -to $lB 00- good butcher
bulls $17.50-19 00 Thin cutter
bulls down to Sl4 00. Moat med
ium and good 600-940 lb feeder
,’steens brought $l5 00-17 25, a
few lots good and choice feeders
$l7 50-18 50 Good and choice
stock steer calves- sold from
$l9 00-22 00, a few 526 lbs $22.25
CALVES 879, week ago 788
Broad demand and active trading
featured the week’s veal calf
market and prices held mostly
steady Choice and prime vealers
brought $2BOO-34 00, odd head
;o 36 00, commercial and-good
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Reader. 83. Wife
Wed 54 Years Ago
Mr. and Mis Joseph Cramer
of Pequea celebrated their 54th
wedding anniversary Feb- 5. Mrs.
Cramer, the former Mary Eliza
beth Douits, is now 75 years
young. Mr. Cramer, 83, 'and his
wife are both in good health.
According to Mrs. Harold Herr,
Pequea, a daughter, there, are
six children, 15 grandchildren
and four great grandchildren
“He is a reader of Lancaster
Farming and still works half a
day,” Mrs Herr reports-
$l9 00-25 00, utility down to
$l6OO.
HOGS: 1966, week ago 1870.
Barrows and gilts are now 50-75 c
lower than last Wednesday and
around $l.OO lower than the
recent high time at the end of
January. Sows scarce this week
and very little changed. In Wed
nesday’s- trade barrows and gilts
U- S. 1, 2 and 3, 180-220 lbs
sold from $l4OO-14 50. a few
mostly No. 1 to retail killers at
$l5 00 Choice sows this week
300-600 lbs $8 50-1100, mostly
$10.50 down.
SHEEP' 256, week ago 200.
Quality of the lambs offered was
rather plain, demand was good
however, and prices strong te
50c higher for the week Most
wooled slaughter lambs good and
choice $l9 50-21 50; choice and
prune 79-85 libs $22.00-22,50
Utility arid low good $l6 00-19 00
Aged sheep scarce-
Lancaster Poultry Exchange
(Rohrerstown) (Sales Report,
Sale #122, Thursday. Feb 2,
1956) —Demand continued strong
Thursday with 86,700 broilers lis
ted, offerd and sold at the poultry
auction here. Thirty-two lots
were on the market, of which
74,375 head were broilers selling
from 22% to 25% cents per lb.
Topping the market was. Martin
H Weaver, R 3 Ephrata, with
3100 Red Vantress selling at 25%
to Roy E Ream. New Holland
Two lots of Barred Crosses sold
at 22%, and all broilers aver
aged 24 50 Three lots, totaling
11,700 capettes, sold at 24%, and
two lots 'of heavy fowl, 625 head,
sold from 27% to 30% /
For the corresponding day a
year ago, Thursday, Feb 3, 1955,
there were 25 lots, a total of
91,250 birds offered, 18 lots of
70,850 selling from 26% to 27%,
averaging 26 98
Sales By Lots
3 90
360 n
305 ~
310 H
320 g
260 g
280 H
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Here are sales by lot number,
seller and grower, amount and
breed, age by weeks and days,
buyers and price.
Lot 2-1 Wenger’s (Dan Leh
man), 7000 Meatpackers, 10 wks,
to Tilley’s Poultry, 24%; 2-2
Wenger’s (Victor Dohner), 1000
Barred Cross, 11 wks, to Pro
ducers Coop Exchange, 22%;
2-3, Norman E. Garber, 1750
Indian Ruver Cross, 10 wks, to
Victor F. Weaver, Inc, 24’4;
2-4, Normian K. Garber, 1650
Indian River Cross, 10 wks, to
Walter C. Mellinger, 24%, 2-5,
Martin H Weaver, 3100 Red
Vantress, 10-1, to Rpy E- Ream,
25(4; 2-6, Martin H. Weaver,
3100 White Vantress, 10-1, to
Horace W- Longacre, 25; 2-7,
Martm H Weaver, 2300 White
and Red Vantress, 10-1, to Victor
F. Weaver, Inc, 25;
Lot 2-8, Eli Breneman,- 225
New Hampshire Hens, 1 year, to
Walter B. Lehman, 30(4; 2-9, J.
Lloyd Harnish, 7400 Red Van
tress, 10-2, to Harry H. Weaver,
Jr, 24; 2-10, J Lloyd Harnish,
3500 White Vantress, 10-2, to S.
E. Davis, 24%; 2-11, J. Lloyd
Harnish, 3500 Red Vantress, 10-2,
to Walter C. Mellinger, 24; 2-12,
Paul G- Hershey, 825 White
Americans, 11 wks, to Roy E.
Ream, 24(4; 2-13, Simeon S.
Kauffman, 2300 Meatpackers,
11-2, to Leola Poultry, 2414;
2-14, Aaron S Fisher, 1050
White Vantress, 9-2, to Roy E.
Ream, 24%; 2-15, Amos M Herr,
400 Sex Link Fowl, 14 months,
to S. E Davis, 27(4; 2-16. Jacob
B. Zook, 650 White Cornish
Cross, 10-6,. to Walter C- Mel
hnger, 24; 2-17, Jonas K. Stoltz
fus, 6400 White Vantress, 9 wks,
ito Harry H. Weaver, Jr., 24%;
2-18, Clair Youndt, 2000 White
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Market News
Broilers Off 2
Cents, Average
GD 18 P. BROILERS OFF 2 c-
Lancaster Poultry Exchange
(Rohrerstown) (Sales Report-
Sale #123, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 1956)
—(Broiler prices declined about
itwio cents Tuesday with 34,850
binds sold in nine lots- Eleven
(lots totaling 46-250 'were listed,
10 lots of 43,250 sold. Prices
ranged from 2211 to 24- cents,
averaging 22.85.
' On One corresponding .day a
year ago. 11 lots totaling'39,sso
birds were offered and spld in
a price rangd of 25'/i to 28, aver
aging 26.6
(Here are Tuesday, sales by sel
ler and grower, amount and
breed, age. by weeks and days,
buyer. Lot 7-1, Miller & Busdiong.
(James Bucher) 6200 White Van
tress, '9-5,' to Producers Coop
Exc- 22%; 7-2 through-7-4, sold
by Miller & Bushong, grown by
Harold • Stansfield; 7-2, 5900
Wttmte Vantress, 9-1. to Mandata
Poultry. 23; 7-3, 2950 Meatpack
ers, 9-1. to Victor F. Weaver,
Inc, 22,4; 7-4, 2900 White
Vantress, 10-1, to Horace W
Longacre, 25;
Miller and Bushong was the
seller or the following 7 lots,
with grower indicated in paren
theses. 2-19 (Lloyd Hooper) 5900
White Vantress, 10 wks, to Man
data Poultry, 24%; 2-20, (Frank
Weidman), 1000 Indian River'
Cross, 9-3 to Tilley’s Poultry, 24,
2-21 (G Walter Jackson), 4000
White Vantress, 9-3, to Mandate
Poultry, 24 2-22 (G. Walter
Jackson), 1400 Indian River
Cross, 9-3, to Waiter C Mellinger,
24%; 2-23 (Jacob C Hear), 3800
White Vantress Caipettes, 12-2. to
Mandate Poulltry, 24%; 2-24 (Ja
(colb C. Herr), 3500 White Van
tress Capettes, l'l-2, to Mandate
Poultry, 24%; 2-25 (Jacob C
Herr), 4400 White Vantress
Capettes, 13 wks, to Producers
Coop, Exc 24%;
2-26, Arthur K. Groff, 2400
Red Vantress; 10-2, to Tilley’s
Poultry, 24%, 2-27, Luke S_
Horst, 1200 Red Vantress, 10-1,
to Roy E Ream,_ 24%; 2-28,
Clayton H Shenk, 650 White
Vantress, 10-2, to : John N.
Thomas, 24%, 2-29, John Coch
ran, 2000 Red Vantress. 9-3, to
C. F. Manbeck, Tnc., 24%; 2-30,
John Cochran, 2000 Red Van
tress, 9-3, to C F- Manbeck, Inc,
24%; 2-31, John Co'chran, 2000
Barred Cross Cockerels, 9-3, to
Producers Coop Exchange, 22%;
2-32, John Cochran, 4000 White
Mountains, 9-3, to C F- Manbeck-
Inc, 24%.
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GRAHAM CONVERTS RED.
READING, England Charlie
Potter, 44-year-old Communist
party organizer, went with a
friend to hear Billy Graham, fa
mous evanglist. just to see what
it was all about Now, Potter says
he has rejected his Marxist be
liefs, thrown up his job and
started 'a new life as a Christian
evangelist, giving Graham credit
for his conversion. “I shall
travel around trying to show peo
ple that Christianity is the an
swer to Communism,” he said.
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tions on nu'clear war.
Vantress, 8-5, to Victor F. Wea
ver, In'c., 22%, 7-5, Miller &
Bushonig (Moses Zimmerman)
2900 White Vantress and Meat
packers, 9-5, to Grimes & Hauer,
23*
7-6, Kenneth McCracken (Mar
lin Rover), 500 White Mountains,
9-4. to Walter B. Lehman, 24;
7-7, _ Miller & BuShong, 3000
Indian River Cross, 9-4, to Roy
E Ream, 23; 7-8, Eugene Sohlos
tnagle, 8400 White Mountains and
White Vantress, 9 wks, no sale,
22% bid; 7-9, Arthur Grayibill,
7000 White Vantress, 9 wks.
Grimes - & Hauer, 22%; 7-10,
Horace Seitz, 3000 White Van
tress, 9 J 5, withdrawn prior to
Sale; 7-11, Roy N. Shultz, 3500
‘lndian River Cross, 11 wfcs, to
Victor F. Weaver, Inc, 22%,
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