2—Lancaster Farming, Friday, April 27, 1956
Prime Steers
Reach $25.00,
Top Hogs $l7
WEDNESDAY TO WEDNESDAY
REVIEW
By David S. Lorenson, Reporter
USDA Market News Bureau
LANCASTER, April 26 t
Wednesday to Wednesday Re-
Vl ew) CATTLE: Three' days
4087 week ago 4043. Compared
with last Wednesday: Slaughter
steers weak to 25c lower, heifers
in small supply mostly steady.
Cows active around 25c higher,
bulls mostly steady. Stockers and
feeders slow all week prices ful
ly steady. Receipts included
around 35 per cent stock steers
and 13 per cent cows, balance
mainly slaughter Steers and heif
ers. Bulk choice steers 1000-1300
lbs $l9 25-21.00; high choice and.
mixed choice and prime 21 50-
22.50. Around three loads 1085-
1190 lb average to high prime
ordered in direct to packers
$24 50-25.00, load prime 1450 lbs
$23 75. Most Good to low choice
steers and yearlings $17.50-19.00.
A few small lots good' heifers
$l6 00-17.50; commercial'down to
$l4 00. Most utility and Commer
cial cows $12.75-14.00, individual
head commercial to $14.50; cut
ters largely $10.75-13.00, high
yielding cutters to $13.25. Can
ners $9.50-10.75. Most utility
and commercial bulls $16.00-
17 50; good fed bulls 800-1100 lbs
$l7 50-18 50, cutters down to
$l3 50. Bulk medium and good
500-650 lb stock steers $lB.OO
- 50, a lew lots 600-735 lb good
to low choice stock steers $20.50-
21 50 Good and choice 450-550
lb stock steer calves $21.00-22.75.
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ATTENTION—We Have Potatoes—Kataddms 5.50
Started Chicks on hand! H
5-10-5 Turf & Garden 295 5-10-10 fertilizer . 2.10 8
Peat Moss 420 Rabbit Pellets (25 lbs) 1.40 8
Staz Dry .. . 2.20 B. Starter Meg. . 4.45 «
16% Allmans Dairy 3.25 Broiler Ration Meg . 5.10 j|
20%81ue Bird Dairy . 3.00 Grower -Meg ... . 4.35 8
Fitting Ration 3-45 Quality Egg Mash 415 g
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2.05
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10c per hundred discount on half ton lots or more.
i; PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE
LAST MINUTE USED SPECIALS
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Phone Lancaster 3-2824
Chicago Hogs $l6,
Cattle Fun Heavy
Chicago received head
of cattle the fu'st three days of
this week, with 24,000 Monday.
5,000 Tuesday and 17,000 Wed
nesday Steers held steady to 25
cents lower despite the increased
volume, some prime steers were
steady to 50 lower. _ A $27 top
was recorded Wednesday on
1250 lb pume, equally the high
set three weeks ago which
matched the Mayj 1955 high.
Bulk prime cattle ’ went at $23
to $25, choice $19.50 to $21.00-
Chicago’s hog top reached $l6
on sorted small lots, the bulk
bringing $15.25 to $15.50.
Odd lots good and choice' 800-
900 lb feeder steers $l9 00-20.75.
CALVES: 1003, week ago 918,
vealers around $l.OO higher than
last week's close. Bulk good and
choice 140-210 lb vealers $24.50-
26 00; high choice and prime
$26 50-29.00 a few individual
head to $30.00 and $31.00. Utility
and commercial vealers $16.00-
23.00; culls down to $lO 00.
HOGS: 1930 week ago 1799.
Barrows and gilts 25-50 c higher
than last Wednesday, sows fully
steady to strong. In Wednesday’s
trade barrows and gilts U. S.
mixed 1-3, 190-240 lbs $16.00-
16 50. Several small lots mostly
No 1 to local small killers
$l6 75-17.00. Weights 160-180
lbs $15.00-16.00. Sows all weights
$9.5Q-12.00
SHEEP: 311 week ago 326.
Compared with last Wednesday,
native spring lambs fully steady.
Old crop lambs too" scarce for an
adequate market test. Bulk good
to prime 5-75 lb native spring
lambs $24 00-28 00 a few head
Monday up to $30.00, utility and
low good $19.00-23.00.
Blue Bird All Mash
Hog Feed
Broilers Gain
Fractionally
Here Thursday
Lancaster Poultry Exchange
(Rohrerstown, Pa. Sales Re
port, safe'l43, Thursday, April
19, 1956) Prices, advanced
fractionally to average 22.19 in a
range of 21 to 23% cents per
pound m the Thursday auction
of 123,675 broilers here. Forty
two lots of a total 127,275 were
offered and listed, 41 lots sold.
Thirty-seven lots of broilers,
122,025 birds, were sold. Two
lots of capettes, 1,250 head,
brought 28% to 29% cents. One
lot of 200 heavy fowl sold at 28-
k and one lot of leghorn
erels at 10.
Headers Poultry, Mechanics
burg, Cumberland County, paid
the 23% broiler top for 2100
White Rocks, 10 wks,-two days,
offered by David Heisey, Jr., R 1
Elizabethtown. v
For the corresponding day a
year ago, Thursday, April 21,
1955, sale 48, 59,700 broilers
were offered and sold in a range
of 23% to 27 cents, averaging
25%.
Sales Recorded Thursday
There was no sale Tuesday,
April 17. Here are Thursday
gales by - lot number (each pre
ceded by 19-), feller and grow-,
er, amount and breed,* age by
weelfs and days, buyer ana
price.
1, Benjamin F. Lapp, Jr., 300
Meatpacker capettes, 14 weeks,
one day, to Marvin Sweigart, 29-
%; 2, Robert Neff, 350 White
Mountains, 9-5, to J. Robert
Charles, 21%; 3, Ralph D. Bren
neman, 200 Leghorn cockerels,
11 months, to Victor J. Koser,
10; 4.'- Miller & Bushong (Lester
Weaver), 1300 Red Vantress, 9-
6, to Daniel K. Good, 22%; 5,
Miller & Bushong (Lester Weav
er), 3400 Red Vantress, 9-6, to
Victor J. Koser, 22%;
6, Dr. C. L. Wertsch, (Ezra
Cochran), 4000 White Vantress,
9-2, to Mandate Poultry, 22%; 7,
Dr. C- L. Wertsch (Ezra Coch
ran), 4000 Red Vantress, 9-2, to
C. F. Manbeck, Inc., 22%; 8,
Dr. C. L. Wertsch (Ezra Coch
ran), 1800 Barred Cross cock
erls, 9-2, to Walter C. Melling
er, 21%; 9, Jacob Hostetter, 500
Meatpackers, 9-6, to John N-
Thomas, 21%; 10, Jack Bucher,
4600 White Vantress, 9-2, to
Grimes & Hauer, 22%; 11 Jack
Bucher, 4650 White Vantress, 9-
2, to Grimes & Hauer, 22% 12,
Robert Barr, ,1500 Red Vantress,
Barr, "2500 White Vantress, 9-6,
to Producers Cooperative Ex
change, 21%;
14, Wenger’s Mill (Beecher
Forney), 3600 White Vantress,
9- no sale, 18% bid; 15, Weng
er’s Mill (David Heisey. Jr.),
2100 White Rocks, 10-2, to Head
er’s Poultry, 23%; 16, John V.
Erb, 4000 Indian River Cross,
9 wks, to Pennsylvania Dutch
Farms, 21; 17, John V. Erb, 5000
Indian River Cross, 9 wks, to
Harry H. Weaver, Jr., 22; 18,
John V. Erb, 5000 Indian River
Cross, 9 wks, to C- F. Manbeck,
Inc, 21%; 19, John V. Erb, 5000
Indian River Cross, 9 wks, to
C. F. Manbeck, Inc., 21%; 20,
Daniel L. Fisher, 950 Red Van--
tress capettes, 12-5, to Walter
C. Mellmger, 28%;
21, Daniel G. Forry. 3400
White Vantress, 10-5, to H. W-
Longacre, 22%; 22. Daniel G.
Forry, 3425 White Vantress, 10-5
H. W. Longacre, 23; 23, Daniel
G. Forry, 3475 White Vantress,
10- to H. W. Longacre, 23; 24,
Miller & .Bushong (Charles
Boose), 2400 White Vantress, 9-
6, to Leola Poultry, 22; 25, Mil
ler & Bushong (Charles Boose),
2450 White Vantress, 9-6, to
Mandata Poultry, 22%; 26, Mil
ler & Bushong (Park Herr),
4600 White Vantress, 9-2, to
Grimes & Hauer, 22%; 27, C.
Richard Landis, 200 New Hamp
shire fowl yearlings, to Walter
3.85
3.75
3.25
Tuesday Auction
Of Broilers Is
Cancelled Here
Due to low receipts the sec
ond Tuesday in a row, the Tues
day auction ot broilers at the
Lancaster Poultry Exchange in
Rohrerstown was cancelled.
A total of 185,000 birds, mak
ing the second largest sale in the
Exchange history, was listed for
Thursday. Top sale was Oct. 20
last year when 187,000 birds m
73 lots were offered, Selling at an
average of 21 cents.
B. Lehman, 28%;
28, Clarence L. Hcrshey, 9069
Indian River Cross, 9-6, to Vic
tor F- Weaver, Inc., 22%; 29,
Clarence L. Hcrshey, 3000 White;
Vantress, 9-6, to H. W. Longacre,
22; 30, Rqdet Farms-, (Ira Herr),
4250 White Rocks, 10-2, to H.
W. Longacre, 22; 31, Bodet
Farms (Ira Herr), 3250 White
Rocks, 9-5, to Victor F. Weaver,
Inc., 21%: 32,. Aberdeen Mills-
Leslie Miller, 2200 Red Vantress,
9-6, to IS- E. Davis, 22%; 33, Ab
erdeen Mills-Leslie Miller, 2600
White Vantress, 94>r to S. E. Da
vis, 22%; 34, Aberdeen Mills-
Leslie Miller, 3400 White , Van
tress, 9-6, to Mapdata Poultry,
22%; 35, Aberdeen Mills-Leslie
Miller, 3600 White''Vantress, 9-
6, to Mapdata, Poultry, 22%;
36, Jonas K- Stoltzfus, 6500
Red Vantress, 9-6, to Roy E.
Reapi, 22%; 37, Harry W. Hos
sler, 2000 White Vantress, 10-2,
to Carl B. Risser, 22%; 38, Hie
stand, Inc.; (Carl-Martin), 1000
White Vantress, 9-6, to Ray W.
Gibble, 23; Stegemerten’s Farm,
2500 Indian River Cross, 9 wks,
to Harry H. Weaver, Jr., 22; 40,
Jason M- Eby, 2800 White Moun
tains and White Vantress, 9-6,
to Roy E- Ream, 22; 41, John W.
Wall, 6000 White Vantress, 9-3,
to Mandata Poultry, 22; 42, Paul
Becker, 475 White Vantress, 10
wks, to Carl B. Risser, 23.
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PHILADELPHIA, April 24
(USD A) Market unsettled.
Supplies were in excess of the
fair demand. Into storage move
ment fairly liberal in volume.
Small-lots of current receipts
brought SB-39c.
Wholesale selling prices: min.
1 per cent A A quality large 45-
48 lb white 42-43, brown 41-42,
medium white,4o-41, brown 40-
41. Extras, min. 60 per cent A
mixed 41-41 1-2.
PHILADELPHIA, April 25
(USDA) Market unsettled.
Demand fair for more than ade
quate supplies. Large WhiteJiloctf
pullets 35-.36c, clean-up sales 33c.
Large White Rock Caponettef
32-33 c, few early sales higher,
Small Sizes 28-30 c. Few lots stags
15c. Cross fryers 24-25 Q, Whit*
Hocks 23 1 /2-24c, Vantresjj Reds
25-26 c. Red broilers 22-23 c. Mix
ed 22 c.
Receipts April 24 included Del
3100 lbs; Md. 11000 lbs; Va. 3000
lbs.
Wholesale selling prices No. 1
and fancy quality broilers or fry
ers heavy type under 3 lbs 22-
23, 3-4 lbs 2314-26. Pullets 4Vfc
lbs and over 33-36. Hens heavy
type 25-30. Light type 16-22. Oldi
roosters 13. Ducks Muscovy 27 f
Pekin 32.
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