' 2 Lancaster Farming, Friday, June 29, 1956 Hogs 50 Cents Lower; $17.50 Top Sparingly; Steers Move Lower David S Loienscn, Rcpoi ter Lancaster June 28—(Wednes day to Wednesday Review) CATTLE 3979, week ago 4909 Compared with last Wednesday slaughter steers steady to 50c lower, heifers steady to weak Cows 25-50 c lower Bulls fully steady Stockeis and feeder very slow since farmers in local area extremely busy with farming •B •- , ~ Compi .. 500 lb paj load ca- w ,tfo pacity \ c per mile Electric operating cost Starter Shank’s Garage 216 NEVIN STREET LANCASTER | ALTMAN’S SUPER-A FEEDS , | #♦ M ~ are timed-tested, scientifically balanced, vitamin complete U and are manufactured daily in three modern plants. Com- || pare our prices « B B Bronze Turkey Poults 86c, 82c per 100 Belts ville White Turkey Poults 64c, 61c per 100 Turkey Starter $4 60 Turkey Developer pellets 4 60 New Hampshire 16 >6c 16‘jC 16 j/ 2C 4 45 Nedlar Chicks Rhode Island Reds All Broiler Chicks B-Starter meg SPECIAL CHOP FOB STEERS & HOGS 3.25 ALTMAN’S CASH FEED STORE WILLIS H. WEAVER MANAGER •# •# ♦♦ ♦# 947 Harrisburg Ave. 10c per hundred discount on half ton lots or more. ...of a JOHN DEERE General-Purpose TRACTOR Yes, in terms of work output per day, one man does become a giant at the wheel of a John Deere ”50," "60," or "70" Tractor. Here are tractors with the capacity . . . the -job-rated speeds . . . the unmatched comfort and convenience . . . the time- and labor saving advantages of Power Steering, "live" hydraulic Powr-Trol, and "live" power shaft that make work easier, more profitable. F. H. SHOTZBER6ER J. U. NEUHAUSER & SONS ff. NGEB IMPL. CO. Elm, Pa. Ph. Manheim 5-2141 operations The week’s supply comprised of around 40 percent stock steers mostly 400-750 lbs and about 10 percent cows Heif ers in very small supply, balance mainly good and low prime slaughter steers Bulk choice fed steers this week 1000-1300 lbs $2O 00-21.25, high choice and mixed choice and prime sold freely from $2l 50-22 00 several loads to near 1400 lb prime steers $22 50 Good grade steers mostlvslB 75-19 75 some standard including 900-1150 lb Holstein steers $l7 50-18 50. Good and choice 680 to 870 lb fed heifers $l7 50 19 50 Utility and com mercial cows $l2 00-13 50, a few standard grade to $l4 50, canners and cutters $9 25-13 00- Utility and commercial bulls $l6 00-18 00 a few good fed bulls up to $l9 50 Several loads and lots medium and good 400-750 lb stock steer, yeai lings and calves $l7 50-19 50, a few Monday to $2O 00 Common stockers $l3 50-16 00 some 600' lb Holstein steers down to $l2 75 A few lots medium and good 900- 1050 lb partly fattened feeding steers $l7 75-19 00 CALVES 844 week ago 853, Veal calves slow, all weak, a round $lOO lower than last Wed nesday Bulk good and choice 130-210 lbs $l9 00-22.00; high choice and prime $22 50-25 00, utility and commercial $14.00-18 Grower me Broiler Ration Bluebird All mash Quality Mash 20% 16% Super-A Dairy Horse feed 3 95 Hog Feed 375 Alii Dairy Cleaner per gallon 190 4.20 160 6 60 Peatmoss, bale Rock Salt Baler twine WE DELIVER Phone Lane. 4-7715 PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE 4 35 5 05 3 85 415 $3 25 A John Deere is a tractor of "exclusives." 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Grizzcll Coming to Lancaster from Montgomery, Ala this week x Kenneth F Grizzell, new district supervisor of the Lancaster Dis trict office, Packers and Stock yards branch of the agricultural marketing service of the USD A He succeeds Frank G Fitzroy, named in February as president of the Baltimore Union Stock Yards 00 culls down to $lO 00 or below HOGS 1434 week ago 1649 Compared with last Wednesday barrows and gilts weak to 50c lower, sows 25-50 c off In Wed nesday’s trade bulk barrows and gilts U S mixed 1-3, 180-240 lbs $17.00-17 50 about 50 head most ly No 1 and 2 at $lB 00 Weights 160T80 and 240-270 lbs largely $161)0-17 00 Sows all weights $ll 00-12 50 SHEEP 607, week ago 707 Supply mainly native spring lambs Quality of the offering rather plain Prices about steady with last Wednesday Bulk good and choice 65-85 lb native spring lambs $lB 00-22 00, a few choice and prime to $24 00, utility grades down to $l6 00 Aged sheep too scarce for an adequate market test PORK PRODUCTION OFF Pork production, m a sea sonal decline, js falling at a faster rate than it did at the same time in 1955, slaughter data from leading packer cen ters show, according to the Corn Belt Farm Dailies In the past six weeks inspected pack ets at major centers butchered a total of 5,442,874 hogs, a cut of 929,714 head or 14 6 per cent from the 6,372,588 slaughtered the preceding week Buck, Pa. Ph. BUTLER 4-4467 Broiler Prices Gain 1.75 Cents on Thursday; Receipts Somewhat Low Lancaster" Poultry Exchange (Rohrerstown, Pa) (Sales Re port, Sale 157, Thursday, June 21, 1956) Prices advanced rap idly Thursday on the sale" of 20 lots totaling- 38.375 broilers that averag-od 2216, a lull cent and three-quarters above the preceding Tuesday. Prices ranged from 21 Vi to 22 h One lof of heavy fowl, 300 head, sold at 19Vi, two lots totaling 2400 Leghorn fowls sold at 17% and 17,’i cents and 500 capettes in one lot sold for 24 cents. Th-eie were 24 lots, 39,975 birds listed and 25 lots, 42,975 offered, with 24 lots, 41,575 sold. In the two sales during the week ending June 23. 1956, a total of 35 lots, 78,255. birds were offered, 34 lots totaling 76,855 sold, with a range of 20% to 22 T cents on broilers, Egg Production In May Drops; Cause , HARRISBURG Production of eggs on Pennsylvania farms was down for the month of May compared with the same month last yeai and poultry farmers began to feel a tightening of the cost-price squeeze, according to. Federal-State reports announced today by the State Department of Agriculture Rising costs of poultry feeds were accompanied by lower prices received by farmers for eggs on all poultry except tur keys, the survey showed The net result, observers said, was a tightening of the margin between profit and loss in the entire poultry industry Down 4% In Year May’s output of eggs from Pennsylvania farms totaled 307 million or 4 per cent below the same month last year, the De paitment said The May total was one million below production for April Both the number of layers and the rate of lay per bird fell short of the May 1955 level Layers, at 16.578.000 declined seasonally from the April estimate of 17,- 116.000 and dropped 2 per cent below a year ago. With May temperatures aver aging four degrees below normal, the average number of eggs per layer dropped to'lB 54 eggs or 2 oei cent undei May 1955 As of May 15 Pennsylvama farmeis were averaging a return of 42 cents a dozen, down three cents from April, but averaged tour cents higher than a year earlier. Average 23 Cents a Pound Farm chickens averaged 23 cents per pound liveweight or me-half cent below the month orevious and 1 5 cents below a year earlier. Liveweight broiler onces at 21 5 cents averaged one half cent less for the month and 3 cents for the year. The liveweight turkey price climbed from 38.0-eents for April 15 this year and May 15, 1955 to 39.0 cents. This is the highest mid-month average price since February 1954. Sharply higher feed costs lowered the turkey feed ratio despite the increase iri turkey prices Farmers Stocking Meat-Type Chicks HARRISBURG In prepara tion for the coming picnic and outdoor chicken barbecue sea son, Pennsylvania fanners are stocking up on meat type chicks which they will grow into broil ers and fryers in 10 to 12 weeks. Hatchery placements of broiler chicks reached an all-time week ly record during the week ended June 2, the State Department of Agriculture announced following a special survey. Placements to taled 984,000, up 154,000 from a week before and compares with 687,000 placed on farms during the same week last year. Total hatch for the week came to 1,159,000. , Non-broiler chicks totaled 813,000. averaging 2133 For the cor responding week a 'year ago* the two sales to June 25, 1955 had 53 lots, 137,790 birds of fered, 46 lots totaling 122,490 sold, with broilers bringing 26% to 29 cents, averaging .27.75 ' Thursday Sales Here are Thursday sales listed by lot number (each preceded by 21-), seller with giower in dicated in parentheses, amount and breed, age by weeks and days, buyer and price > 1, Bolton’s Hatchery, 101)0 New Hamp fowl yearlings, no sale, 19 A bid, 2, ’ Bolton’s Hatchery _-(Edwin M3gel), < 2000 Leghorn fowl yearlings, to Carl B Risser, 17% /3, John y, Erb, 4000 Indian’ Rivers, 9-2, to Victor F Weaver, Inc, 22%} 4, Robert H Barr, 1300 Red Vantress, 10 wks, to Roy E. Ream, 22 K, 4, Robert H Barr, 1200 Red Vantress, 10 wks, to Roy E Ream, 22 i, 6, Beniamin F Lapp, Jr „ 500 White Rock capettcs, 12-2, to Walter C Mellmger, 24, 7, C. Richard Landis, 300 New Hampshire fowl yearlings, to Leola Poultry, 19%, 8, S M. Fisher, 4000 Indian Rivers, 10- 3, to Meader’s Poultry, 22%, BA, S" M Fisher, 2500 Indian Riv ers, 10 wks, to Pennsylvania utch Farms, 22; 9, Caleb K. Hershey, 400 White Vantress. 10-2, to John N Thomas, 22%; 10, Harvey M. Zimmermaji> 4500 Red Vantress, 10-6, to Col lege Hill Poultry, 22%; 11, Titus H. IHoover. 400 White Vantress, 9-2, to Walter C Mellinger, 21%, 12, Ira B. Landis, 1700 New Hampshire cockrels, 04, to Roy E Ream, 21%; 13,- Miller & Bushong (Roy Harmsh), 6200 Indian Riv ers, 10 wks, to Harry H Weav er, Jr, 22%, 14, Miller & Bush ong (Roy Harmsh), 3500 White Vantress, 10 wks, to Victor F. Weaver, Inc, 22; 15, O Ken neth McCracken, (Raymond H. Miller), 2300 White Vantress cockerels, 8-6. to Victor F. Weaver, Inc, 22; 16, O. Kenneth McCracken (Charles Keagy), 1400 White Mountains, 8-6, to _Meaders Poultry, 22 ‘4, 17, Willis Good, 400 Leghorn fowl yearlings, to darl B Risser, 17 A, 18, Mill port Roller Mills (Jacob A* Stahl), 1100 White Cornish Cross, 10 wks, to Meader’s Poul try, 21 A, 19. Lester S. Wenger, 375 White Vantress, 10-2, to aniel K. Good, 22H- 20, J W. Eshelman & Sons, (Research Center), 850 White Mountain*, 9-2, to Victor F. Weaver, Inc., 21 %, 20, Leroy Horst, 400 White Rock Cornish cockerel capettes, 12-2, no sale, 23% bid; 22, Levi Rohrer, 450 Meatpackers, 11-5, to Walter <B. Lehman, 221 i; 23, Edgar M. Martin, 400 White Arbors, 12 wks, to Roy E. Ream, 22; 24, Isaac B. Hoover, 1300 Indian Rivers, 10-6, to Walter B Lehman, 22%; 25, Harvey M. Zimmerman, 3000 Red and and White cockerels, 10-6, to H. W. Longacre, 22%. £BB*BBBBBBBBBBBB^I SEE OUR LINE OF Garden Tractors Moto Mower Power Mowers ■fa Ortho Products For the Farm and Garden Martins Hardware Farm Mid Home Supplies Bareville Ph. 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