2—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Aug. 31, 1956
Lancaster Livestock: Prime Steers
Score. $39.75; Barrows, Gilts 50 Lower
WEDNESDAY REVIEW
By David S. Lorensen
USD A Market News Service
WEDNESDAY TO WEDNES-
Cattle, Three days, 3,823.
week ago 4,376 Compared with
last Wednesday, slaughter
steers high choice and prime
strong to 50 cents higher, other
grades weak to 50 ceftts lower
Heifers steady to weak, cows
around 25 cent lower. Bulls
mostly steady Slow trade on
stockers and feeders unevenly
75 cents-100 lower The supply
comprised around 50 per cent
stockers and feeders and 15 per
cents cows Slaughter steers
graded mostly high Good to
Prims Bulk Choice an dPrime
steers 950-1300 lbs, $25 25-29 00
with most sales made on Mon
day Several lots and av-
ALTMAN’S SUPER-A FEEDS
are timed-tested, scientifically balanced, vitamin complete
and are manufactured daily in three modern plants. Com-'
pare our prices
TRY SOME AROMA PEP FLAV-ORING
IN YOUR GRASS SILAGE OR HAY.
Two week old Nedlar New Hampshire Chicks
And Broiler Chicks First Come—First Served
16% Dairy 325 B Starter Meg 435
20 % OF Hog, Pig & Sow Broiler Ration . 5.15
430 Grower Mash , 420
20°5- Blue bird Dairy 300 20% Quality Mash ~ 410
15% Hog Feed 370 Bluebird All Mash '3 80
Oats (801bs) 325 Turkey Developer Pellets
Corn 3 95 4 70
Scratch 405 Staz dry 220
Fine Chick 515 Peat Moss 420
SPECIAL CHOP FOR STEERS & HOGS $3 25
CLOSED LABOR DAY
WE DELIVER
ALTMAN’S CASH FEED STORE
Corn
WILLIS H. WEAVER MANAGER H
947 Harrisburg Ave. Phone Lane. 4-7715 ::
10c per hundred discount on half ton lots or more. p
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2-ROW corn harvester
$1265 fo.b. factory
New Model 33, two-row. Price shown includes base machine,
tractor attaching parts and motor shields. Fits WD-45, WD
and WC Tractors.
Prices subject to change without notice.
Priced to pay its way this Fall!
ALLIS-CHALMERS
SALES AND SERVICE
Mann & Grumelli Farm Serv R. S. Weaver
Quarryville, Pa.
LH. Brubaker Snavelys Farm Service
New Holland, Pa.
Lancaster. Pa.
N* G. Myers & Son
Rheems. Pa.
erage to high prime $29 50-29 75
including some 926 lb weights
at $29 50. Load 1210 lb prime
steers $3O 75 Most good grade
steers $2lOO-24 75, including a
few loads grass steers $2lOO
- 00. Some standard steers
$lB 00-2100 Good and choice
heifers $2O 00-24 00, standard
grades $l7 00-19 00 Late sales
utility and commercial cows
$llOO-13 50; canners and cut
ters $8 50-11 50 Ut lity and
Commercial bulls $l5 00-17 50,
good fed bulls $lB 00-20 50, cut
ters down to $l3 00. Numerous
lots and loads medium and good
425-750 lb stock steer calves
and yearlings $l7 00-20 50, a
few good early to $21.50, part
load choice 607 lb stock steer
calves $23 00 Common stockers
$l3 50-16 50 Most medium' and
eral loads and lots good grades
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Stevens. Pa.
L. H. Brubaker
Lititz. Pa.
Monday $20.50-21.50, a few good
to, low choice $22 00-22 50. Soma ]
common and medium feeders
$l4 00-17 50. Poor midweek
clearance on stockers and feed
ers
CALVES Three days 918,
week ago 771 Vealers mostly
steady with last Wednesday
Bulk good and choice $2O 00-23.-
50; high choice and prime $,24.-
00-27 00 a few Monday to $2B 00.
Utility and commercial $l5 00
19.00.
HOGS Three days 1,741, in
cluding around 200 head pig
club offerings, week ago 1,537
Barrows and gilts mostly 50
cents lower, sows fully steady
Bulk harrows and gilts U S
mixed 1-3, 200-240 lbs in Wed
nesday’s trade $lB 00-18 50
some around 27Q lbs down to
$l7 25, and weights 160-180 lbs
$l6 50-18 00 Sows, all weights,
$l2 50-15 00.
SHEEP Three days, 559,
week ago, -278 Slaughter lambs
mostly steady with last Wednes
day Bulk good and choice na
tive lambs 70-90 lbs $lB CO
-23 50, prime grades absent Uti
lity and low good grades $l5 00-
17 50, culs down to $l2 00
Top Hogs $6O
Per Hundred
In Junior Show
Robert Graybill, Manheim
youth, Wednesday afternoon
saw his trim, tidy, grand champ
ion Chester White sell at $6O
cwt in the Lancaster-Lebanon
Counties 4-H Pig Club Roundup
at Lancaster Stock Yards Buy
er of the 180-pound animal was
Kunzler Packing Co
Kenneth Book, R 7 Lancaster,
scored $3O cwt on his reserve
champion, selling to R B. Hip
pey Other prices- ranged from
$2l cwt down
There were 227 entries,
slightly under last year, and
average weights of hogs, it
was believed, figured lower
than last year. The average
Wednesday was 190.8 lbs.
Dwight Younkm, livestock
specialist from Penn State,
spoke and judged the classes,
three in each breed
Winners of first place by
breed were Berkshire, Glen
Funk, R 2 Annville; Chester
White, Richard Hastings, Kirk
wood, Hampshire, Ronald Rpok,
R 1 Annville Duroc- Jersey
Walter Augsburger, R 1 Rein
holds, Poland China, Kenneth
Book, R 1 Lancaster, Spotted Po
land China, John Zimmerman,
R 1 Reinholds.
Goidfus Hatcheries
Move to New Holland
At 225 West Main St.
Goidfus Hatcheries, Inc five
and-ta-half-year-old Lititz chick
producing firm, picks up its
incubators Saturday, Sept 1,
and moves into new quarters
at 225 West Main street in New
Holland.
The move, according .to hat
chery manager and president
Paul Metzler. was necessitated
by expanded demand on broiler
and layer chick hatching facil
ities. Recently, the hatchery
expanded its chick lines to in
clude Ames-In-Cross layer and
White Vantress Cross broiler
_breeds The hatchery also hatch
es Meatpacker Cross broilers
and Goidfus Strain Cross Leg
horn breeds Broder and layer
chicks form Goidfus go throu
ghout Pennsylvania and Mary
land, and as far as Jordon in
the Middle East and Puerto
Rico.
The new New Holland Main
Street headquarters, (according
to Mr Metzler, will also make
the hatchery more accessible to
poultrymen on business in
town Mr. Metzler and William
0‘Bill”) Anderson, new head
hatcheryman say they’ll have
the welcome mat out for any
and all visitors to the new head
quarters.
Dr. Joseph B. Maier, sociolo
gist - “Superstitions persist be
cause they supply certain satis
factions, restore hope and con
fidence where there was none
before.”'' ‘
Lotwaerrick Queen
•Miss Dorothy Freeman, crowned Thursday* night as
Pennsylvania Lotwaerrick Queen, here pilots an Interna
tional Harvester Cub through the Parade of the
IH Field Day-Tuesday Miss Freeman, 26, teaches the first
four grades at the Smoketown School Lotwaerrick? That’s
Apple Butter (Lancaster Farming Staff Photo)
Broilers Firm at 20-Cent Mark; Top
Thursday 20.75, Paid Sparingly
Lancaster Poultry Exchange.
(Rohierstown, Pa) (Sales Re
port, Sale 173, Thursday, Aug.
23, 1956) Broiler prices held'
steady in the Thursday auction
of 39 lots with 62,105 birds list- ;
ed, offered and sold at the Lan-|
caster Poultry Exchange in a
range of 19 to 2014 cents, aver
aging 20.15. Thirty-one lots, 57,-
750 broilers, brought this price.
Also sold were four lots, 2,550
Leghorn fowl at 16 to 16)4 cents,
two lots. 1525 heavy fowl from i
17 to 17/t, one lot, 200 capettes,
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September Specials
John Deere Forage Harvester with
corn & grass, att.
McCormick Deering corn binder—like
new
Papec & McCormick Deering ensilage
cutters
New Iron Age 2 row potato digger—
-1/2 off
New Lavelle 26’ elevator with power
lift-1/3 off
Snavely’s Farm Service
NEW HOLLAND
at 25 Vz, and one lot of 80 heavy
pullets at 30/i cents.
Here are Thursday sales by
lot number (each preceded by
23-), seller, with grower indi
cated in parentheses, amount
and breed, age by weeks and
days, buyer and price
1, Millport Roller Mills (R-
Eugene Hummer), 1200 White
Cornish Cross, 10 wks, to' Col
lege Hill- Poultry/ 19%; 2; Ken
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