2—Lancaster Farming, Friday, May 18, 1956 Hogs Up 50 to $1.00; Small Lots at $lB,OO WEDNESDAY TO WEDNES DAY REVIEW By David S. Reporter USDA Market News Bureau LANCASTER, May 17 (USDA) Wednesday to Wed nesday Review;) CATTLE: 4,356, week ago, 3,750. Compar ed with last Wednesday slaught er steers and heifers steady to weak, cows 25-50 higher, bulls fully steady. Stockers and feed ers fully steady to strong. De mand for slaughter steers was narrowed early this week due to Jewish holidays which par ticularly affected high choice and prime grades. Around 50 per cent of the supply was slaughter steers mostly good and choice grades Approximate ALTMAN S SUPER-A FEEDS Staited Nichols New Hamp- shire Chicks on hand now' Also Nedlar New Hamp- shire’s and Sex Links for eggs We can fill your order in just a few days in some breeds. Place your order now! Bailer Twine $6 60 B. Starter Meg 45( Binder Twine (bale) 815 Grower • 4 3 Cattle Wire (20 rod roll) Broiler Ration 5.K 17 00 up Fine Chick . 501 2 Pt. Barbed Wire 635 Scratch (cwt) ... 4.0 f 4Pt Barbed Wire 885 Quallty Egg Mash 42( 6 10 2 09 B1 “ e ® ird Jo' Salt block (504=) 82-127 20% Blue Bird Dairy 30 ‘ Electric wire (roll) 1175 16% Altmans Dairy 3.21 SPECIAL CHOP FOR STEERS & HOGS 330 WE DELIVER ALTMAN’S CASH FEED STORE , jj WILLIS H. WEAVER MANAGER H 947 Harrisburg Ave. . Phone Lane. 4-7715 ♦♦ H 10c per hundred discount on half ton lots or more. ♦♦ PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE ly 10 per cent of the total was cows, balance mainly stock steeis medium to low choice 500-' 650 lbs Bulk choice fed steers 1000-1300 lbs $l9 50-21.00; mixed high choice and prime $21.50- 22 25 Load 1360 lbs $22.00 Good and low choice steers $lB.OO - 25, a few commercial down to $16.00. Small lots good and low choice 697-1010 lb fed heif ers $16.50-18 50, commercial down to $l4 50. Late sales utility and commercial cows $13.00- 15.75; cutters largely 1150-1350, high yielding cutters to $14.00. Cjanner cows $9.75-11.25- Utility and commercial bulls $16.00- 17 75, a few good fad bulls $17.75-18.50.‘8u1k medium and good 500-650 lb yearling and short yearling stock steers $lB.OO-20.50, a few loads good and choice of similar weight $20.50-21.25. A part load 644-lb choice yearlings $22.25. Load choice 546-lb stock steer calves $22.65. A few loads and lots good and low choice 814-1050 lb ?»?»?•< Welsh Mountain Fire Sweeps 30-Acre Wood Thirty arces of woods in the Welsh Mountains of eastern Lancaster County were burned last weekend near the Good Sanjantan Mennomte Mission Fire companies from Blue Ball and White Horse were call ed and under direction of White Horse Fire Chief L. Ross Parm er curbed the fire. Cause was undetermined. \ / feeding steers $19.00-21-00. Com mon stockers $l4 00-$16.50. CALVES: 832 week ago 884. Vealers around 50 cents lower than last Wednesday. Late sales good to prime vealers $23.00- 29.00, a few to $30.00; utility and commercial $l6OO-22.00. Culls down to $12.00. HOGS: 1764, week ago 1899. Compared with last Wednesday barrows and gilts 50-$l.OO high er, sows around 50 cents higher. In Wednesday’s trade barrows and gilts U. S. mixed 1-3, 180- 240 lbs $l7 00-17.50, a few small lots mostly No. 1 and 2 to local small killers $l7 75-18 00 Weights 160-180 lbs $16.50-17.00. A few around 270 lbs down to $16.50. Sows all weights $10.50-13.00. SHEEP 541, week ago 345. Supply mainly native spring lambs Spring lambs fully steady with last Wednesday. Bulk chocie and prime native spring ers 55-80 lbs $26 00-28.00; Utility and good grades $2O 00-25 00. § Prices Drop Slightly in Broiler Sale Lancaster Poultry Exchange (Rohrerstown, Pa) (Sales Re port, Sale 147, Thursday, May 10, 1956) Prices declined slightly Thursday at the Lancaster Poul try Exchange when a near-record 176,275 birds in 57 lots were of fered and listed, 55 lots totaling 168,975 were sold Fifty-four lots of broilers, 168,- 075 birds -sold from 20% to 22Vs One lot of 900 capettes sold at 26 'A cents Ray Gibble, R 2 Co lumbia, paid the top 22% for 800 Red Vantress, 10 wks old, grown and sold by John J Lehman, R 2 Quarryville. For the corresponding sale a year ' ago, Thursday, 12 > 1955, sale 54, 38 lots totaling 113,580 were offered, 35 lots totaling 109,130 were sold from 26% to 29%. avermg 28 3- On Tuesday a year ago, May 10, 1955, sale 53, ten lots of a total 29,650 birds were offered, nine lots of 24,250 sold, for a week’s total of 133,380. Thursday Sales Here are Thursday sales by lot number, seller and ■ grower, amount and breed, age by weeks and days, buyer and*price: Lots 1 and 2, consignor Eugene Schlosnagle: 1, 8200 White Mountains, 9-3, to Grimes & Hauer, 21 1 -4, 2, 8200 White Vantress, 9-1, to H W Longacre, 21 >4. Consignor of lots through 11 was Wm. Eshelman-Red Rose: 3, 3500 Indian River Cross, 10- 3, to Roy E. Ream, 21%; 4, 3950 White Vantress, 10-2, to S. E. Davis, 21; 5, 3800 White Van tress, 10-2, to Roy E. Ream, 21%; 6, 1750 White Vantress, 10-2, to Producers Cooperative Exchange 21%; 7, 3900 White Vantress, 10 wks, to Mandata Poultry, 21- %; 8, 3800 White Vantress, 10 wks, to Mandata Poultry 21%; 9, 1750 White Vantress, 10 wks, to Producers Cooperative Ex change, 21 %; 10, 5050 Indian River Cross, 10-1, to Victor F. Weaver, Inc, 21%; 11, 3950 White Vantress, 10 wks, to Harry H. Weaver, Jr, 21%; Miller & Bushong Seller Lots 12, 13 and 14 were con signed by Miller & 'Bushong, Harold Stansfield, grower: 12, 5900 White Vantress, 9- 3, to Grimes & Hauer, 21%; 13, 1975 White Vantress, 9-3, to Til ley’s Poultry, 21%, 14, 2900 - Meatpackers, 9-3, to C. F. Man- beck, Inc., 21%; Lots 15 through 26 were also sold by MiUer & Bushong, with grower indicated in parentheses: 15, (William Walker), 14450 Red Vantress, 10 wks, to Roy E. Ream, 22; 16, (William Walker), 3900 White Vantress, 10 wks, to C. F- Manbeck, Inc., 21H; 17, (Dorothy Miller), 3000 Indian River Cross, 10-2, to H. W. Long acre, 21 %; 18, (Wm. Sands, Jr.), 2000 Wlhite Vantress, 9-2, to Mea’der’s Poultry, 21%; 19, (Sam Stoltzfus), 2450 Indian River Cross, 10 wks, to H. W. Long acre, 21%; 20, (Elam B. Riehl), 2000 White Vantress, 9-3, to Vic tor OF, Weaver, Inc., 21%; (John Bacon), 4700 White Mountains, 9-2, to Producers Cooperative Exchange, 21%; 22, (Dean Ba con), 3400 Red Vantress, 9-2, to Producers Cooperative Exchange 21%; 23, (Clair Ray). 2600 White Vantress, 9-6, to Mandata Poultry, 2l; 25, (Joseph Bus hey), 8900 White Vantress, 9-6, to Mandata Poultry, 20%; 26, (Elmer Spatz), 7900 White Van tress' and Meatpackers, 9-3, to Victor F. Weaver, Inc, 21% 27, Kenneth McCracken (Eu gene Weaver), 750 White Moun tains, 9-4, to Carl B. Risser, 21%; 28, Wenger’s (Joe Deitz), "3000 White Vantress, 10-3, to Victor F Weaver, Inc, 21%, 29, Weng ers (David Heisey), 4000 White Vantress, 9-3, to C F Manbeck, Inc, 21%, 30, Wenger’s (Vernon Zimmerman), 5000 White Van tress, 9-3, to Tilley’s Poultry, 21- H, 31, Ind on Riv er Poultry, (Reuben Beiler), 3000 Indian River pullets. 10 wks, to Pro ducers Cooperative Exchange, 21%; 32, Daniel S Stoltzfus, 2000 White Vantress. 10 wks, to Til ley’s Poultry, 21 %; 33, Edgar S Martin, 2100 White Arbor, 11-2, to Leola Poul try, 22%; 34, Edgar M. Martin, 1100 White Rocks, 11-2, to Daniel K Good, 22; 35, Harold O Yoder, 2000 Arbor Acres White Rocks, 10 wks, to Pro ducers Cooperative * Exchange, 21VI, 36, Norman C. Nolt, 250 White Cornish Cross, 11-1, to Leola Poultry, 21%, Lots 38 a.nd 39 were sold as one lot, Emmanuel Flaud seller and grower. 38, 1000 White Mountains, 9-6, and 39, 1500 In dian River Cross, 9-6, to Harry H Weaver, Jr, 21'%, 40, Roy M. Good, 800 Red and White Van tress, 10 wks. t»o Roy E. Ream, 21, 41, Mrs Jacob Cramer, 750 Indian River and White Moun tains, 10 wks, to Roy ’E. Ream, 21, 42, John K Grebinger, 700 Red Vantress, 10-6, to Roy E. Ream, 21%, 43, Miller & Bus hong, (John J Lehman), 800 White Vantress, 10 wks, to Ray mlar compound of famous 2,4-D. in active growth. J 1.75 11,000 sq ft-$4.85 Everything lawn needs, easily applied in dry form, Scotts Spreader does it automatically— Seed, Grassfood, Weed Controls. Junior -$7.95 Streamlined N6T55 -$14.85 V GROFF S HARDWARE S. RAILROAD AVE., NEW HOLLAND Ph. 4-0851 r*i&2>SA&i w. Gibble, 21%; 44, Miller & Bushong (John J. Lehman), 800 Red Vantress, 10 wks, to Ray W- Gibble, 22%; 45, Elvm Nolb, 3300 White Vantress, 9-2, to Pennsylvania Dutch Farms, 21%; 46, (D. E. Horn (Nelson Fitz), 4000 Indian Rivers, 10 wks, to Victor F. Weaver, Inc, 21%; 47, Afthur Graybill, 6500 White Vantress, 8-6, to Victor F. Weav er, Inc., 21%; Lots 48 and 49, both consigned by Miartm Mummau, were un sold on bids of 20%. Both lot* were nine week, six day Silver Cross, pne lot of 3900, one o£ 3400. Lot sft, Aaron S. Fisher, 1000 White Vantress, 9-2, to John E. Hettinger, 21%; 51, John Coch ran, 2000 White Vantress. 9 wks, to Grimes & (Hauer, 21%; 52, John Cochran, 2000 White Van tress, 9 wks, to Grimes & Mauer, 21%; 53, John Cochran, 2000 White Mountains, 9 wks, td Grimes & Hauer, 21 t-i ; 54, John Cochran, 2000 White Mountains, 9 wks. to Grimes & Hauer, 21%; 55, John Cochran, 2000 Black Cross cockerels, 9 wks, to Walt er C. Mellmger, 21%; 56, John J. Hess II (Levi Stoltzfus), 1200 Red Vantress, 9-2, to Walter C. Mellinger, 22, 57, John J. Hesd II (Warren High), 2000 Whit« Mountains, 9-2, to Harry H- Weaver, Jr, 21%. 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