2 —Lancaster Farming, Friday, Oct. 19, 1956
Broiler.) Thursday Set Eight Records;
Prices Advance Only Quarter of Cent
Lancaster Poultry Exchange
(Rohieistown, Pa) (Sales Re
port, Sale 183, Thmsday, Oct
11, 1956) Eight records m re
ceipts and a quartet-cent ad
vance in ayetage prices marked
Thuisday’s auction of 223,700
buds at .the Lancaster Poultry
Exchange last week Listings at
233,250. offerings ot 232,100 and
the total sold all hit new record
highs for the two-yeai history of
the exchange
A Tuesday recoid was set last
week with 51,260 listed and of
fered, 43,160 broileis sold
Leghorn fowl Thursday hit
the low mark of the year,
biinging but ten cents a pound.
Topping the broiler market at
18.5 was Robert Noll, 201
Rohierstown Road, Lancastei,
selling his 1325 Baited Csors
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ses, nine weeks and four days,
to Waltei Mellinger, Bird-in-
Hand.
One lot of 350 capcttes sold
at 20 25 cents a pound, 600 Leg
horn fovdl tai ought the 10-cent
figuie, and 57 lots, 221,750 broil
ers, sold .fiom 17 to 18 50
,For the coi responding day a
jear ago, Thuisday, Oct 13, 1955,
sale 93, offered were 57 lots.
155,650 birds, sold were 53 lots,
144,950 m a range of 2125 to
23 25, averaging 22 59
Heie are sales of Thursday
last week, listed by lot number,
(each preceded by 11-), seller
with giower shown in paren
theses, amount and breed, age
bv weeks and dajs, buyei and
puce
Cottonseed Meal
-Bluebird All Mash
4 20
'l5B
2 05
140
4 90
4 35
3 80
4 35
4 30
3 95
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WE DELIVER
Pens of threes are lined up for Dwight
Younkin from the University of Pennsyl
vania, judging the. countywide lamb show
1, Robert Noll, 1325 Barred
Cross, 94, to Walter C Melling
er, 18 5,2, Kenneth Noll, 2800
Indian Rivers, 9-8, to Grimes &
Hauer, 18 25, 3, Aaron J Bru
baker, 5000 Whit 2 Vantress, 96,
no sale, 18 bid, 4, Emanuel
Flaud, 1000 Barred Cross, 10
wks, no sale, 17 75 bid; 5, Ben
iamin F Lappj Jr, 350 Red
Vantrtess Capettos. 15 wks, to H.
W Longacre, 20 25;
6, Miller & Bushong (Harold
E Rohrer). 6000 White Vantress,
10 wks, to Victor F Weaver,
Inc, 18 25, 7, Miller & Bushong
410
Pellets
4.55
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Lancaster Livestock: Best Steers
Mostly Steady; $32.50 Top Recorded
By DAVID S. LORENSON
USD A Market News Service
WEDNESDAY TO
WEDNESDAY REVIEW
Lancaster. Oct 18 (USDA)
(Wednesday to Wednesday Rc
vxew) CATTLE three days
4,302, week ago 4,882 Compared
with last Wednesday slaughter
steers high choice and pnmo
mostly steady, standaid to aver
age choice grades slow about
steady Heifers scarce steady,
cows fully steady, bulls slow
steady to weak Stocker and
feeder steers slow mostly 50
cents lowei Receipts comprised
aiound 65 per cent stocker and
feeder steals grading common to
good averaging 500-1000 lbs
About 10 per cent of the total
was cows Bulk good and choice
slaughter steers 1000-1250 lbs
$22 00-28,25, several loads and
lots'llso-1475 lb Prime steers
$3O 00-32 50, standard and low
good stears $17.50-21'50 A few
lots standard to good slaughter
heifers $16.50-2150. Utility and
commercial--cows mostly $ll 25-
13 50, standard grade cows to
$14.50 Cutter cows mostly $9 75
1150, high yielding cutters to
$l2 00 Canncrs $8 50-9 50. Util
ity and commercial bulls $l4 50-
17 00, good fed bulls to $2150;
cutter grades $l2 50-14 00 Most
medium and good 500-750 lb
stock steers $l6 0019 50. load
mixed good and choice 630 lb
Colorado "lock stems $22 00,
common slock steers $ll5O
- 00 Medium and good 800-1000
lb feeder steers mostly $l7 00-
20 00 a few loads mo'.tlv
high good fleshv feeders 850-1000
lbs $21.00-22 00 A few 'stock
calves good and choice $2O GO
-22 00
CALVES 81, week ago 564.
Vealers active fully steady to
strong compared with last Wed
nesday. Bulk good and choice
140-210 lb veal calves $22 00-
27 50, a scattering of high choice
and prime $28.00-31.00; utility
and standard grades $l6 00-2150
and culls sold down to $l2 00
HOGS - 1,495, week ago 1,733.
Supply was mainly barrows and
gilts U.S. mixed 1-3, grade av-
Lambs Lined. Up
that was a part of the Mt Joy fair. (Lan
caster Farming Staff Photo).
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(Harold E Rohrer), 6000 White
Vantress, 10 wks, to Victor F
Weaver, Inc, 18.25, 8r Miller &
Bushong (Harold E Rohrei),
4300 Indian Rivers, 10 wks, to
Victor F Weaver, Inc, 18 25, 9,
Miller & Bushong (Harold E
l-Rohrer), 4700 White 'Vantress,
10 wks, to Victoi F Weaver,
Inc ,' 18, 10, Philhaven Hospital
Faim, 1000 White Vantress, 96,
no sale 18 bid;
11, Biown Bros , 10,000 White
Vantress, 9 wks, to Grimes &
Hauer, 1825,. 12. Brown Bros,
10,000 White Vantiess, 9 wks,
ci aging 180-250 lbs Sows weie
scarce Barrows and gilts fully
steady with last Wednesday
Sows steady Bulk barrows and
gilts U S mixed 1-3, 190-250 lbs
m Wednesday’s trade H>i7.so
- 00 with U S No 1 and 2 sort
ed small lots to $lB 50 A fev'
weights around 270 lbs down to
$l6 75. and weights 160-180 lbs
$l6 75-17 25 Bulk of the week s
supply went to local small kill
ers A few head of sows U S
mixed mostly 2 and 3 $l3 00-
15 00 all weights included
SHEEP 458, week ago 509
Wooled slaughter lambs aiound
$1 00 - lower than last Wednesday
Bulk good and choice wooled
lambs $lB 00 22 50 Utility and
low good grades $l4 00-17 50
Culls down to $8 00
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to Grimes & Hauer, 18 25, 13,
Titus Hoover, 475 White Van
tress, 10-2, to Stauffer Farms,
17 75, 14, Elam W. Weaver, 1500
White Cornish Cross, 10 wks, to
College Hill Poultry, 17 75, 15,
Elam W Weaver, 1450 White
Cornish Cross, 10 wks, to Roy
E Ream, 17 75;
16, Miller & Bushong (Roy N.
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