g Lancaster Farming, Friday, April 6, 1956
Prime Steers
At Lancaster
Score $22.50
By David S. Lorenson
. Reponei
USDA Market News Bureau
WEDNESDAY TO WEDNES
DAY REVIEW
Lancaster —April 5 (Wednes
day to Wednesday Review)—
CATTLE; 3,557, week ago 2,955
Compared with last Wednesday,
slaughter steers and heifers 25-
50c higher, cows and bulls mostly
steady. Stockers and feeders
slow, largely steady. Supply
comprised around 45 per cent
stockers and feeders and 10 per
cent cows Bulk choice fed steers
Altman’s Super-A Feeds
are timed tested, scientifically balanced, vitamin complete’and'are
manufactured daily in three modern plants. Compare our prices.
Come in and see our Started Chicks
Fine Chick Feed 475 Hog Feed 365
B Starter 425 16% Bluebird Dairy 275
Grower 415 20% Bluebird Dairy 295
Broiler Ration 480 Fitting Ration . 340
Quality Egg Mash 405 Special Chop I 320
Bluebird All Mash 375 Beet Pulp 1 405
Scratch Grain 365 Cotton Seed Meal 400
Oats (80 lb) '3 00 Linseed Meal 440
Horse Feed 370 Stazdry Bale 220
Ducklings 27c—30c
ALTMAN’S CASH FEED STORE
WILLIS H. WEAVER MANAGER
947 Harrisburg Ave. Phone Lane. 4-7715
10c per hundred discount on half ton lots or more.
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Goldfus Shipping
To Beirut Firm
Fiom funds raised by Lancas
ter Comity Brethren Churches,
a total of 330 dozen hatching
eggs have been consigned by
Goldfus Hatcheries, Lititz, to
Musa Alarm, Beirut, Lebanon, to
rehabilitate a hatchery destroy
ed tin recent Jordan riots.
Taken to New York by truck,
the eggs were loaded aboard a
KLM Dutch An lines plane for
shipment under supervision of
the United Nations World Re
lief Association.
Another order for 4,000 eggs
will leave later this month for
the same destination-
$lB.OO-21.00 for weights 1000-
1300 lbs. Several loads and lots
high choice $21.50; odd loads
prime 1100-1250 lbs $22 00-22.50
Good and lo,w choice $17.00-
18 25. A few small lots commer
cial and good heifers $14.00-
16.50 Most utility and commer
cial tows $l2 50-13 50; earners
and cutters $9 00-12 75. Utility
and commercial bulls $l6 00-
17 50 good 800-1100-lb bulls
$l7 50-18 50, cutters down to
$l4 00 Most medium and good
500-750 lb yearling and short
yearling stocker and feeders
$l7 00-19 50 mixed good and low
choice $l9 00-2100 Good and
choice 450-550 lb stock steer
calves and short yearlings $2O GO
-21 50, a few steer calves $2l 75-
22 00 Common and medium
stockers $l3 00-17 00
CALVES 987, week ago 1.409
Demand narrow on veal calves
steady to 50c lower than last
Wednesdav Bulk good to prime
vealers 140-210 lbs $2O 00-24 00,
high choice and prime $24 50-
26 00 a few to $2B 00 Utihtv
and commercial vealers $l5 GO
-19 00 culls down to $8 00
HOGS 1 917, week aao 2 492
Compared with last Wednesdav
Barrows and gilts 75c-$l 00
higher Sows strong to 50c up
WE DELIVER
PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Week Ending Birds Sold Avg. Price
3- 5-55 - 63,700 31,40
3- 1*56 71,000 . 23.25
3-12-55 90,480 32.80
3-10-56 100,010 23.56
3-19-55 ’ ‘ 68,385 32.30
3-17-56 ' 115,925 23.07
3-26-55 64,875 ' 32.10
3- 103,915 22.39
4- 2-55 110,725 32.30
3-31-56 ' 83,730 21.32
1955 Total 398,165
1956 Total 474,580
Difference 76,415
Three-Month Comparison
January 1955 390,415 January 1956 619,816
February 1955 324,900 February 1956 489,570
March 1955 398,165 March 1956 474,580
Total - 1,113:480 Total - 1,583,966
Bulk barrows and gilts Wednes
day, 190-240 lbs grading U. S',
mixed 1-3, $16.00-16.50; weights
160-180 lbs $14.50-1600, some
140-160 lb weights $12.00-14.00
Sows, all weights, $9 00-12 00
SHEEP 216, week ago 1,016.
Supply mainly native spring
lambs a few plain quality old
crop lambs Woole”d lambs $l6 00-
21.00, native spring lambs good
to prime 60 to 83 lbs $23 00 to
26.00 Aged sheep scarce
Prices Higher
Thursday for
Broilers Here
Lancaster Poultry Exchange
(Rohrerstown, Pa) (Sales Re
port sale 138, Thursday, March
29, 1956) —Prices moved frac
tionally higher Thursday com
pared to the preceding trading
session at the Lancaster Poultry
Exchange on broilers, with an
average of 2136 A total of
97,005 birds in 23 lots were list
ed, 22 lots totaling 95,006 of
fered and 18 lots totaling 78,505
sold, five lots totaling 18,500 not
sold
Prices ranged from 2Cn to
22% on 17 lots of a total 78,225
broilers, and one lot of 280
pullets sold at 35 cents
For the corresponding day a
year ago, March 31, 1955, sale
41. some 100,000 broilers, 7,000
tin keys and 2550 capettes were
offered, and 89,100 broileis,
1,000 turkeys and 700 capettes
were sold in a range of 30 to
35%, averaging 32%
Top Reaches 22.25
Rov Ream, New Holland, paid
the 22% top Thursday on 2,250
Red Vantress crosses. 10 wks
offered by Frank Destafano, R 1
Conestoga
Here are Thursday sales by lot
no (each preceded bv 29-),
seller, grower (in parentheses),
amount and breed, age bv weeks
and davs, buyer and price
1 Herbert Pendleton, 1200
Indian River Cross, 10 wks, to
Roy E Ream, 21, 2 Miller &
Bushong __ (Frank Destafano)
2 250 Red'Vantress, 10 wks, to
Rov E Ream. 22% 3, John V
Erb 4000 Indian River Cross
9 wks. no sale, 20% bid, (lots
4. 5 6 sold as 1 lot at 21 cents)
4. Paul Renno 5500 Red Van
tress, 9-3 5 4ROO Indian River
Cross 9-3 fi 1300 Indian River
and Bed Vantress, 9-3, to Penn
sylvania Duteh Farms- 7. M’ller
Xr Bushoncr (John L Herr), 4300
White Vantress o wks, no sale
21 '1 bid 8 Miller Ar Bushon®
(Tohn L Herr) 4202 Bed Van
tress °- 9 no sale 20% bid-
9, Miller H
9 QOO
Q wks to H?»rrv H Weaver Jr
if), Mil1 p r 8r Tsn«:hon ef (Samuel
B 77s wti’to
o ivies to Far! B 22 11
Miller & posh on** (H "Ravronrid
phorjoc') "Whit® Tsil C n *'-
Cross 0 to F
w “over, tno l2 Llovd
WineV. IA/ in I fowl yoor
itncrc withdrawn nrtor to sal^
12 ]VMlor ‘ p iiV>o/-»nrf ('TTqrrv Tj
IQoo Vantr^ss
1 A wks to Pnv F T?c.gm 29
Mlllor & P^QV»r) n rf Botrti-
4200 3O
"»Vq to S 17 r*nvis *M IS t oon
W Tf«c<s 9QO 2ik*<vf fVocq
IP-7 fo l 'f l'oHio*Zer
VNllioni Sleuth W n ' r g7OO
Whito 0-0 TT
Jfr 91 v • 17 IViHiSTn
OPOO “\Xrtntn
0 2 to 2l v
17 “\T pHOO
White Vantress, 9-6, to Mandata
Lancaster Poultry Exchange
Total Head Soljl
Comparison of Sales
Difference
470,486
LIVE POULTRY
Philadelphia, Apr 4—(TJSDA)
Market unsettled Demand fair
and selective for more than
adequate supplies Few lots
rock pullets 33 to 35c, Reds 32c
Large White Rock Caponettes
28 to 33c, few lots higher crosses
28c without clearing. Few lots
cross Roasters 28 to 31c, White
Rocks 26c Cross Fryers 24% to
5, Columbias 25c, White Rocks
23 to 26c, Vantress Reds 24 to
26c, few lots higher Mixed
Broilers did not clear at 23c
Poultry, 21%, 19, Samuel Kolb,
5000 White Vantress, 9-2, to H
W Longacre, 21%, 20, Samuel
Kolb, 8000 White Vantress, 9-2,
to Mandata Poultry, 21 ! 1, 21,
Samuel Kolb 8000 White Van
tress, 9-2 to H W Longacre,
21%, 22, Philip F Foster, 10,000
White VantreSs, 9-5, to Victor F
Weaver, Inc, 21%, 23, Indian
River Farm (Harry Boyer), 5000
Leghorn pullets, 10 wks, no sale,
20 k bid
Farm Fires in ]
April Proving
Need for Care
Spring cleanup often means
burning grass and debris, which
in turn can cause more serious
blazes This week several rural
fires were reported around Lan
caster County, one a brooder
house fire, another a farm grass
fire.
On the Christ L Fisher farm,
HI Strasburg Sunday, fire de
stroyed a brooder house and 350
small chickens. A faulty kero
sene heater was believed cause
of the fire and damage was esti
mated at $350-
• Two ifire companies. White
Horse and Honey Brook, re
sponded to a grass fire call on
the Eugene Koch farm near
Compass Sunday afternoon. Sev
eral buildings, including the
former Compass school building
were endangered
No 2 quality 15c Turkeys weak.
Demand light for excess supplies.
Few small lots Beltsville Young
Toms 35c with bulk of White
Holland and Beltsvilles unsold.
Receipts April 3, included Mary
land 2,000 lbs, Delaware 8,000
lbs, Virginia 7000 lbs
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