g Lancaster Farming, Friday, July 6, 1956
Hogs Higher on Lancaster Market,
Steers Also Advance in Week
By DAVID S. LORENSEN
USD A Market News Service
Wednesday to Wednesday Re-
view
LANCASTER, Pa July 5
(Wednesday - to Wednesday
Livestock Review) (USDA)
CATTLE; Three days includ
ing holiday 2152, week ago
3979 Compaied with last Wed
nesday. Slaughter steei s and
heifers 50-75 cents higher, cows
25-50 cents- higher, stocker and
feeder steers mostly steady
Bulls steady Bulk choice fed
steers this week 1000-1350 lbs,
S2O 75-21 75; high choice and
mixed choice and prime $22 DO
-22 75, a few loads prime steers
$23 00-23 75. Good grade steers
$l9 50-20 50, some standard
small lots good and low choice
heifeis $lB.OO-19.50 Most utility
and commercial cows $12.50-
14.00, canners and cutters large
ly $9 75-13 00, high yielding
cutters to $13.50 Utility and
commercial bulls $l6 00-18 00,
good fed bulls to $l9 50 Bulk
medium and good 500-850 lb
stocker and feeder steers $l7-00-
18.50, a few good around 900-
lb feeding steers to $19.00
Bulk common stock steers
$l3 00-15 75
'’CALVES Three days 791,
week ago 844 Compared with
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Come in and see our Started Chicks
Turkey Starter $4 55 No 11 Wire (roll) 11.75
Turkey * Developei Cattle wire (bale)
Pellets . 460 . 17-00 up
Chick Starter Meg 440 IVi” & VA” Staples
Grower Crumbles 4.40 (lb) i6g
Blue Bird All Mash 380 50 # Salt Blk. 850 130
16% Dairy 320 Water Softener 215
Horse Feed 395 Rock Salt 160
Hog Feed 370 Peat Muss (bale) 420
Enriched Fitting Red Oxide Paint
Ration 345 5 Gal 10 95
Super A Dog Meal Fibre-Old Roof Paint
25 lbs • 2.05 5 Gal - ... 235
Rabbit Pellets 485 Broiler Ration 500
Fence Charger 27 50 '
Special Chop for Steers and Hogs $3 20
WE DELIVER
ALTMAN’S CASH FEED STORE
WILLIS H. WEAVER MANAGER
947 Harrisburg Ave. Phone Lane. 4-7715
10c per hundred discount on half ton lots or more.
, PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE
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last Wednesday veal, calves
about steady Bulk good and
choice veal .calves this week
130-210 lbs, $19.00-22.00; a few
high choice and prime $22 50-
25 00, utility and commercial
$l4 00-18 00, culls down to
$lO.OO
HOGS Three days, 1156,
week, ago 1434 Barrows and
gilts fully 50 cents higher than
last Wednesday, sows steady to
strong. Bulk barrows and gilts
this week 180-240 lbs, U. S,
mixed 1-3, $lB 00-18 50, around
50 head mostly No 1 at $19.00;
weights 240-270 lbs and 160-180
lbs, $17.00-18 00 Sdws, all
weights, $‘10.50-13 00, mostly
$l2 00 and down.
' ISHEEP 305, week ago 607
Supply mainly native spring
lambs Lambs fully steady with
last Wednesday. Bulk native
spring lambs, good and choice
65-85 lbs, $lB 00-22.50, a
lots high choice and prime
$23 00-24 00, small lot prime 89
lbs $24 50 Aged sheep too
scarce for market test
Bogota, Colombia, is the city
for you if you dislike jukebox
music A city ordinance bans
playing of the devices from 6
p. m. to 6 a m.
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The future home games of the Brook
lyn, Dodgers may be played under a huge
plastic dome, if Current plans are fol
lowed through. Architect Buckminster-
Fuller claims the huge, cup-shaped root
over the baseball field would be 300 feet
high and 750 feet in diameter. The air
conditioned, all-weather sports center
Prices Range from 22.75 to 24.25 in
Tuesday Sale of 48,500 Birds Here
'Lancaster Poultry Exchange
(Sohrerstown, Pa ) (Sales , Re
port, Sale 159, Tuesday, July
3, 1956) Prices advanced
sharply on the sale of 48,500
birds in ten lots offered in Sale
159 Tuesday, July 3 at the Lan
caster Poultry Exchange Prices
averaged 1.86 cents above the
Thursday, June 28 sale, scoring
23 99 cents in a range of 22 Vi
to 24%. A total of nine lots of
broilers, 47,300 sold m these
figuies, while one lot of 1200
Leghorn fowl sold at 17%
Thursday’s average last week
was 22 13.
Broiler placements continue
considerably above last year,
helping strengthen demand
Eleven lots totaling 55,000
birds were originally offered
Topping Tuesday’s market
were 8,000 White Vantress,
consigned by Samuel Kolb of
Spring City, selling to Produc
ers Cooperative Exchange,
Coatesville, and a group of 2300
White Vantress sold by Miller
& Bushong, grown by Frank
Destafano of RD Conestoga The
Kolb consignments were 9 weeks
old, the Destafano White Van
tress 10 weeks.
Tuesday Sales Listed
Here are Tuesday sales by
lot number (each preceded by
“3-”), seller! with grower in
dicated in parentheses, amount
and' breed, age by weeks and
days, buyer and price-
1, Robert Neff, 600 White
Mountains, 94, to Roy E. Ream,
22 X, 2, Miller & Bushong (Ray
mond Charles), 6200 White Tail
Cornish Cross, 9-4, to H. W
Longacre, 24; 3, Samuel Kolb,
5000 Red and White Vantress,
9 wks, to H W. Longacre, 24;
4, Samuel Kolb. 8000 White
Vantress, 9 wks, to Producer’s
Cooperative Exchange, 24; 5,
Samuel Kolb, 8000 White Van
tress, 9 wks, to Producers Co-,
operative Exchange, 2414;
6, Pennsylvania Farm Bureau
(James G. McDowell, Jr.), 10,-,
000 White Vantress, 9-3, to C
F. Manback, IncJ 23%; 7, Mil
ler & Bushong (Lloyd Wenger),
6500 White Vantress and Meat
packers, 10 wks, withdrawn
prior to sale; 8, James B. Hess,
3300 Meatpackers, 9-4> to Victor
F. Weaver, Inc., 24; 9, Miller
& Bushong, (Roy N. Hess), 3900
White Vantress, 10 wks, to Vic
tor F. Weaver, Inc., 24; 10, Mil
lar & JBushong (Frank Desta
rano), 2300 White Vantress, 10
wks, to Producers Cooperative
Exchange, 2414; 11, Aaron J.
Brubaker, 1200 Leghorn .fowl
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There’ll Be No Rainchecks
yearhngsr to Walter C. Melling
er, 17% cents.
THURSDAY SALE
Lancaster Poultry Exchange
(Sale 158, Thursday, June 28)
Broilers averaged 2213 cents
per pound in the Thursday auc
tion of 106,670 broilers here in
a range of 20 to 24 cents per
pound
Two hundred barred crosses
brought 19 cpnts, 1,000 capettes
22 to 22%.
Topping -.Thursday’s market
was Clayton Sangrey, R 2 Lititz,
selling 450 ten-week Red Van
tress to John E Hettinger, Hali
fax, at 24 cents
During the first six months
of 1956, a total of 3,288,266
broilers* have been sold on the
Lancaster Poultry Exchange,
considerably above the 2,500,-
700 sold in the corresponding
period a year ago. -
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would have a seating capacity of more
than 55,000, as compared, to 32,000 tor
lEbbets Field. Artist Frank Tinsley en
visions a cut-away the finished
stadium, above. ■This artist’s conception
of the-huge sports facility is from July
issue of Mechanix Illustrated
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