' 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
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pacity \ c per mile Electric
operating cost Starter
Shank’s Garage
216 NEVIN STREET
LANCASTER
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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
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947 Harrisburg Ave.
10c per hundred discount on half ton lots or more.
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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
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Ph. Lane. 3-0723
Heads USDA Office
Kenneth F. 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%.
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