■TS&y COWS 25 Cents Up WEDNESDAY TO WEDNESDAY ' REVIEW' By David S. Lorenson, Reporter USD A Market News Bureau LANCASTER, Pa. May 11 (Wednesday to Wednesday Re view) CATTLE: Three days 3,- 750, week ago 4,087. Compared with 'last Wednesday Slaughter steers and heifers fully steady to strong, cows 25c or more higher. Bulls fully steady with last Wed nesday, stockers and feeders fully steady Receipts comprised around SO per cent stocker and feeder steers and 13 per cent cows. Bal ance mainly slaughter steers and heifers except for six to eight loads of bulls. Bulk choice fed steei s 1000-1300 lbs $l9 50-2100, several loads and lots mixed high choice and prime $2150-22.50, a few lots prime 1100-1300 lb steers $23 00, one load $24 50. Most good grade steers $lB 00-18.75, some commercial down to $l6 50. Only small lots good to low choice heif ers 700-950 lbs $l6 00-18 50. Most utility and commercial cows $l2 75-15 00, individual head to $l5 50, canners and cutters $9 50- 13.75 Utility and commercial bulls $l6 00-17 75, odd head good fed bulls 800-1025 lbs $lB 00-19.00, Numerous loads medium and good 500-650 lb stock steers $lB.OO - 50, a few loads similar weights mixed good and choice $2O 75 2125, choice 478 lb good and choice stock steer calves $21.50. Several lots an dloads common and medium stock steers $l4 GO -17 50 CALVES 884, week ago 804, | Altman’s Super-A Feeds | « are timed-tested, scientifically balanced, vitamin complete and are SJ H manufactured daily in three modem plants. Compare our prices :: g Order your Sex Links Chicks at Altman’s now Also Bab- g g cock Leghorns, Strain Cross Leghorns for eggs, and Del- g :: aware Hamp Cross Broiler and White Cornish Hamp g |f Cross Strait run $l6 50 per 100 a if Kataddin Potatoes $5 50 Horse Feed 4.00 a a 5-10-10 fertilizer 2.10 B Starter Meg 470 a H 5-10-5 Turf & Garden .2 95 Broiler Ration 510 g Jf International Fence Charger Grower 4.30 g if 27 50 Quality Egg Mash 4.20 a g /Electrical wire (bale) Scratch (cwt) 4.05 || J: 11.75 16% Altmans Dairy . 3.25 a a Cattle Wire 32-8-12-11 17.00 20% Blue Bird Dairy 3.05 a H Chicken Wire 60x14Vi 13.05 Hog Feed 380 » 0 SPECIAL CHOP FOR STEERS & HOGS 330 | § * WE DELIVER | ft ALTMAN’S CASH FEED STORE | £ WILLIS H. WEAVER MANAGER | 947 Harrisburg Ave. Phone Lane. 4-7715 H 10c per hundred discount on half ton lots or more. H PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE MARKET-MAKER That’s the new Meatpacker Cross . . . Time and time again top place and top price bird at the Lancaster Poultry Exchange. Wider breast —heavier legs—bigger size— put the Meatpacker Cross on top! White feathering makes cleaning and dressing easier' Big meaty body keeps dressing weight loss down, gets premium price from poultry buyers! COST-SAVER That’s the new Meatpacker Cross . A bird that practically grows while you watch. Goes well over three pounds in 10 weeks uses less feed to get there too! Disease resistance makes the Meatpacker Cross haidy, cuts early chick loss! LET THIS NEW BIRD PROVE ITSELF IN YOUR FLOCK Order Meatoacker Cross Chicks for 1956 delivery! Call or Write. R. D. #3, Lititz, Pa. Phone 6-2407 Exclusive hatchery for THE MEATPACKER CROSS f t noiDGaaDaßaiißißaifliiaiißaauaißDia (X 1956 plot Lambs -Here are triplet lambs -on the farm of Irvin Better, R 2 Elverson, with daughter Elsie Mae and her father as proud exhibitors. Vealers weak to 50c lower than last Wednesday,. Bulk good and choice vealers this week $24.00- 26.00, high choice and prime $26 50-30 00, several head up to $32 00 Monday. Utility and com mercial grades $16,00-22.00 with culls down to $l2 00. HOGS 1.899, week ago 2,035 Compared with last Wednesday, barrows and gilts mostly steady, sows fully steady. In Wednesday’s trade 180-240 lb barrows and gilts U S mixed 1-3, $16.00-16-50, a few to local small killers $l6 75- 17 00. Weights 160-180 lbs $l5 00- 16.00. Small showing around 270 lbs down to $l5 00 Sows all weights this week $lO.OO-12 50 SHIEEP 345, week ago 602. Supply mainly native spring lambs [good to prime. Native lambs fully steady with last Wednes day. Bulk good to prime 50-75 lb spring lambs $24 00-27 00, a I few utility to low good $l9 GO -23 00 Aged sheep toa scarce for an adequate market test ■ Broilers Gain 1.5 Cents for Thursday Sale Lancaster Poultry Exchange (Rohrerstown, Pa.) (Sales Re port, Sale 146, Thursday, May 3, 1956) Prices advanced a cent and a half for broilers'in the Thurgday auction of 109,400 birds in 33 lots sold There were 40 lots, 126,725 birds listed, 36 lots of 113,725 offered, and not sold were three lots, totaling 4,325 Prices on 30 lots of broil ers, 108,200 -birds ranged from 18% to 23%, averaging 21-90, while two lots of capettes, 1,000 birds, sold from 28% to 28%-, and one lot of 200 heavy fowl sold at 28%. For the corresponding sale a year ago, Thursday, May 5, 1955 sale 52, 22 lots totaling 68,390 broilers were offered, plus one lot of 300 fowl and' two lots totaling 800 capettes that sold from 25 to 28% on broilers, averaging 26.7 cents. Four lots totaling 13,000 birds were withdrawn in Thursday’s sale/ Here are Thursday sales by lot number (each preceded by “3-”), seller with grower indi cated in parentheses, amount and breed, age by weeks and days, buyer and price: Lots 1 through 3, Miller & Bushong, (Harold Stansfield) 1, 5950 White Vantress, 9-3, to Grimes &, Hauer, 22%; 2, 2975 Red Vantress, 9-3, to Meader’s Poultry, 22%, 3, 2950 Indian Riv er Cross, 9-3, to Victor F. Weav er, Inc, 21k; 4, Levi J Fisher, 1100 White Vantress-, 9-2, to Roy E Ream, 22, 5, Henry Shremer, 1200 White Vantress, 9-2, to Thomas M Bross, 22; 6, Daniel G. Forry, 1400 White Vantress, 10-5, to Carl B. Risser, 23%; 7, 'Graybill Miller, 3000 White Vantress, 10-2, to Roy E. Ream, 22%; 8, Graybill Miller, 5500 White Vantress, 10-2, to Horace W- Longacre, 22%; 9, Graybill Miller, 5500 Meatpack ers, 10-2, to C F. Manbeck, Inc., 22; 10, Luke S Horst, 1200 Red Vantress, 10-1. to Walter C Mel- Ixnger. 22%; 11, Simeon S. Kauff man, 1000 Meatpackers, 9-6, to Leola Paultry, 20%; 12, Paul S. Miller, 375 White Cornish Cross capettes, 10-6, no sale, 23 bid; 13, Miller & Bus hong (Lloyd Hooper) 5600 White Vantress, 10 wks, to Grimes & Hauer, 21%; 14, Miller & Bus hong (Frank Weidman), 1000 In dian River Cross, 9-3, to J. Rob ert Charles, 21%; 15, Miller & Bushong (R. H. Myers), 2000 White Vantress and White Mountains, 10-2, to Tilley’s Poul try, 21%, 16, Miller & Bushong (Richard B. Wile), 700 White Vantress capettes, 12-3, to Carl B Risser, 28%; 17, John Graver, 6500 White Mountain and White Cross, 10- 2, to Producers Cooperative Ex change, 20%; 18, Clarence A. Keener, Jr. 1400 White Cornish Cross capettes, 10-2, to Carl B. Risser, 22%; 19, Walter D. War fel, 175 White New Hampshire cockerels, 10-4, to Daniel Good, 18%; 20, Paul Howe, 5500 White Vantress, 9-2, to H- W. Longacre, 22; 21, Paul Howe, 5500 Red Vantress, 9-2, to Pennsylvania Dutch Farms, 22; 22, Paul Rowe, 200 New Hampshire fowl year dings, to Walter C. Mellinger, 28- %; 23, Elvin Nolt, 300 White Mountain capettes. 13-2, to Mar vin Sweigart, 28%; ■ 24, J. Lloyd 'Harnish, 8000 S White Vantress, 9-2, to Harry ■ H. Weaver, Jr, 21%; 25, J. Lloyd ■ Harnish, 3900 Red Vantress, 9-2. ■ to Harry H. Weaver, Jr., 21%; ■ 26, J. Lloyd Harnish, 3800 White ■ Vantress, 9-2, to Victor F- Weav ■ er, Inc., 21%; 27, N. Parke Mil ■ ler, 2000 White Vantress, 9-1. to 'Jj Pennsylvania Dutch Farms, 21%; H 28, 'N. Parke Miller, 2450 White ■ Vantress, 8-6, to Pennsylvania ■ Dutch Farms, 21%; 29, Robert ■ Kauffman, 5000 White Moun -2 tains, 9-6, to Mandata Poultry, ■ 22; 30, Robert Kauffman. 7000 ■ White Vantress, 9-6, to Mandata J* Poultry 22%; LIVE POULTRY PHILADELPHIA, May 9. (USDA) Market unsettled. Demand good for light supplies of hens but light for more than ample supplies of other classes. Large Rock pullets 34-38 c, White Rocks 36c. Large White Rock caponettes 33-34 c, few lots high er, No. 2 quality 25-30 c without clearing. Cross fryers straight cockerels 24c with bulk unsold, Hylines 22c, Vantress Reds 23- 25c, White Rocks 26-27 c for pul lets and 25-27 c for cockerels. Few lots light type broilers 20c. Few lots stags 16-18 c. Turkeys: Demand good for light supplies. Tew lots mixed Beltsvilles 40c. Receipts May 8 included Del. 10,000 lb; Md. 10,000 lb; Va. 3,- 000 lb; N- Car. 2,000 lb. Wholesale selling prices No. 1 & fancy quality: Broilers light type under 3 lb 20, broilers or fryers, heavy type, 3-4 lb 22-27, pullets 4% lbs and over 34-38, hens, heavy type 26-32, light type 16-21, old roosters 12-14, ducks Muscovy 28, Pekin 28-30. 1200 AT HORSE SHOW Attendance at the~Oxford'Ath letic Association Horse Show last weekend was estimated at 1200 Muscovado, entered -by Mrs Roland Kroehler, Balti more, and ridden by- her daugh ter, Effie Jane, was one of the leading winners The President has signed an executive order providing for the training of a ready reserve of business and labor executives in any general mobilization. 31, Red Bose Farm, 3500 In dian River Cross, 9-3, withdrawn prior to sale; lots 32, 33 and 34, also consigned by Red Rose Farm, were withdrawn prior to sale, including lot 32 of 3950 White Vantress, lot 33 of 3800 White Vantress and lot 34 of 1750 White Vantress, all 9 wks, 2 days; 35, John B. King, 450 Red Vantress, 9-3. no sale, 20% bid; 36, Michael ISchwartz, 3500 Meatpackers, 11 wks, no~ sale, 20 bid; 37, Christ B. King, 800 TnWay Cross, 94, to M. M Brendle, 20%; 38, A. K- King, 1100 Red Vantress, 9-1, to Roy E Ream, 21; 39, Eugene Schlos nagle, 8200 White Vantress, 9-2, to Pennsylvania Dutch Farms, 22%; and lot 40, Miller & Bus hong (James Bucher), 6500 White Vantress, 9-6, to Tilley’s Poultry, 22 cents >?Ttttr?Tf*TTT & | 24Hour Service 11956 AUTO TAGS EDWARD G. WILSON Notary Public 16 S. Lime St- Lancaster, Pa. HAVE YOUR FARMLANDS LIMED NOW BY A MODERN SPREADER LIKE THIS... V ' t. * < * > ♦ K " , - 'a';. i&P This modem 30 foot spreader will spread Martin’s Quality Lime quickly, efficiently and make your soil more productive. As you know, every crop makes your soil more deficient in certain minerals, .which, if not replaced by liming, will cause poor crop production and unhealthy livestock. To meet this condition, you should have your soil tested periodically to determine if your soil needs lime and the amount needed. You can do this by taking advantage of our FREE SOIL TEST. Phone New Holland 4-2112 or Terre Hill 5-3455. Send a card or letter to IVAN M . M ART IN / , INC. 912 Quarry Road, Bluo Ball, Lancaster County, Pa. ■;« v, asßgf^ajgi Poultry Exchange | To Aid COT Sale Facilities of the Lancaster Poultry' Exchange have been of fered to the Coatesville regional Chicken of Tomorrow Contest in the May 17 auction, th# board of directors voted Wednes day night. Chickens from thd contest will be sold without ex change charges in that sale. ! There was no sale Tuesday on the Poultry Exchange. For Thursday, 175,000 birds in 57 lots were listed. PHILADELPHIA, May 9 (USDA) Market steady. De mand good with most interest for mediums at slightly "higher prices. All grades were in ade quate supply. Into storage move ment fairly heavy. Small-lot sales of current receipts 38c. Wholesale selling prices: mi« 10 per cent AA quality large 45- 48 lb white 42-43, brown 41-42, medium white 38-39, brown 37- 38, extras mm 60 per cent _ A quality large 45-50 lb white 41 Vi -42%, mixed colors 41-42, medium white 37-38, mixed colors 37-38, standards 39-40, checks 32-35. ’ Receipts May 8 5,700 cases all by truck HARRY W. LIGHT DIES Funeral services were last weekend for Harry W. Light, $l, a retired farmer from the Myers town Mountville area He died Thursday afternoon of last week at his home, R 3 Lebanon. ■ ■■■■.■■■■■■■■■■■■ l : Clearance Sale " ■ TRACTORS ■ _ Massey Harris 101 w cult. 5 ■ John Die e “B” ■ § Farmall F2O ' 5 AC B & WCS 2 Bottom TractorJPlows ‘5 Several N H Balers fl AC All Crop Harvester g 2 Forage Harvesters *001? ■ 1 IHCRear Mounted Corn g Planter ■ h < Used Hammertnill 5 ■ 2-Row Potato Planter 1 Several Transplanters 5 : L. H. BRUBAKER ! ■ Lancaster RD4 -I • fh. Lane. 3-7607 ‘I ■ Lititz 6-7766 ■ ■ Stniburg OV 7-2305 ■ T f -v ♦ % i EGGS ✓ . S*' 4s
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