2 Lancaster Farming, Friday, March 22, 1957
Broiler Prices Drop Under 20 Cents
At Poultry Exchange Auction Friday
LANCASTER, Marth 20 The
Broilet market recovered a little
at trie Wednesday auction with a
20.16 c6ht average as opposed to
Fridays average of" 19.60 cents.
The ' price lange for-the 41,650
brofhlrS' sold was from 19 to 21
cents. ‘ 1
A'Tbt'of eight month old Leg
horn fowl sold for 17Vi cents and
a lot of yearling .Leghorn? brought
1314 cents.
There are 42,269 birds listed
for the Firady, March 22 auction.
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LANCASTER —"The broiler
market'took a nosedive last week
ALTMAN’S SUPER-A FEEDS
are timed-tested, scientifically balanced, vitamin complete
and are manufactured darly in three modern plants. Com
pare our prices'
Spung is here! It is time to repair those brooder house
roofs. We have a large stock of roofing paper.
90# roll. $3.50 55# roll
65# roll • ' $2.95 _ 45# roll
Paint - Red Oxide White House Paint
5 gal. $10.95 1 gal $2.40 1 gal $4.25
Have you tried our Alh-Hous ehold and Dairy Cleaner—
for your spring house cleaning, washing windows, blinds
and wood work. Only $l9O per gal. 600 per qt.
Dont forget we carry a full line of Carbola Chemical Co.
Insecticides.
Berry Boxes $1.93 per 100—518.30 per 1000.
Started Chicks and Ducks.
ALTMAN’S CASH FEED STORE
WILLIS H, WEAVER MANAGER
947 Harrisburg Ave.
10c per hundred discount on half ton lots or more.
PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE
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REICH POULTRY FARM E, MUSSER HEISEY
R.D.I Marietta, Pa. R.D 2 Mt. Joy, P;
A. S. GROFF AMMON E. SHELLY
21 S Queen St. Lancaster, Pa. R.D.2 Lititz, Pa.
CHAS. E, SAUDER & SONS J. C. WALKER & CO.
R.D 2 East Earl, Pa. Gap, Pa.
WARREN SICKMAN MUSSER’S
R.D.I Pequea, Pa. The Buck, R.D.I, Quarryville, Pa.
with an average of only 19.6 cents
being paid at Fridays auction. At
the corresponding sales a year
ago, the average r was 22.83 cents
with 114,000 broilers being sold.
The 1955 average was 32.2 cents
for 68,385 birds.
Eighteen lots of broilers, 74,-
380 birds, were sold Friday,
Prices ranged from 19 to 2014
cents. In addition, two lots of
capettes,* 2,400- birds, were sold
for 2814 cents and- 28% cents.
Here are the sales listed by lot
number (each preceded by 15-);
seller with grawer shown in
parentheses; amount and breed;
Phone Lane. EX 4-7715
WE DELIVER
Wednesday Chicago
Grain Markets
May futures:
Wheat —$2.23%, up 1 cent.
Corn—sl.32’A, up IV4 cents.
Oats—s.7o%, up % cent.
Soybeans—s2.4l%, up 1% cents,
age by weeks and days; buyer
price.
I. Luther Lytle, 15.100 White
Vantress, 8-3, Mandata Poultry,
19 cents. 2. Walter B. Groff, 2,400
White Vantress, 8-3, Mandata
Poultry, 20 cents. 3. Miller &
Bushong (Richard Blessing),
3.000 White Vantres, 9-3, College
Hill Poultry, 20 cents. 4. Miller'&
Bushong (Elam B. Riehl), 1,500
White Vantress Capettes, 124,
Marvin Sweigart, 28% cents. 5.
Miller & Bushong (Frank Weid
man), 900 White Vantress Cap
ettes, 12-4, Carl B. Risser, 2814
cents.
6. Miller & Bushong (Parke K.
Herr), 3,700 White Vantress, 9-6,
Victor F. Weaver, Inc., 19% cents.
7. Miller & Bushong (Parke-JL
Herr), 3,800 White Vantress, 10,
Harry H. Weaver, Jr., 19% cents.
8. HoDet Poultry Farm (Richard
Brabson), 3,850 White Vantress,
9-2, no sale, 19% cents bid. 9.,R0-
Det Poultry Farm (Richard Brab
son), 3,350 White Vantress, 9-2,
no sale, 19% cents bid. 10. Penn
sylvania Farm Bureau (Lawrence
H00d),.4,500 White Vantress, 9-1,
S. E. Davis, 20 cents.
11. Pennsylvania Farm Bureau
(Lawrence Hood), 4,400 White
Vantress, 9-2, S. E. Davis 20
cents. 12. Pennsylvania Farm
Bureau, (Allred Velter), 8,000
White Vantress, 94, Mandata
Poultry, 19% cents. 13. Pennsyl
vania Farm Bureau (Alfred Velt
er), 8,000 White Vantress, 94.
Mandata Poultry, 19% cents. 14.
Aaron S. Fisher, 500 Red k White
: Vantress, 9, John E. Rettmger,
19% cents. 15. A. Roy Landis,
4.000 White Vantress, 10, Roy E.
Ream, 20% cents.
16. Paul Maulfair, 80 fowl, 14
months, no bid. 17. George W.
Lillich (Robert Berkheimer), 2,-
300 Indian Rivers, 10-2, H. W.
Longacre, 19% cents. 18. Indian
River Farm (Allan Schantz), 7,-
200 Indian Rivers, 10-3, Mandata
Poultry, 19% cents. 19. Charles D.
Warfel 11, 5,000 Indian'Rivers, ip,
no sale, 19% cents bid. 2P.
Charles D. Warfel ll,* 5,000 In
dian Rivers, 10, Walter C. Mel-
Imger, 20 cents.
$2.60
$2 0,5
|25 Dinner
To Be April 17
For Producers
A $25 a plate dinner for poultry
producers will be held April 17,
the Lancaster County Poultry
Assn, and the Lancaster Poultry
Exchange announced Monday
night at a planning meeting at
the Exchange.
Tentative plans call for the din
ner to be held at Hostetter’s Ban
quet Hall, Mt. Joy, but the spon
sors said that a larger hall may be
needed.
This banquet, together with
the $lOO a plate dinner held
March 6, will help finance the
new Poultry Exchange Building.
The earlier dinner 1 was designed
to attract the support of feed and
equipment dealers and allied in
dustries. A total of 159 persons
attended the dinner. .
Martin Millet’, Florin, and Jay
Greider, Mt. Joy, co-chairmen,
said that they are seeking a hall
to accommodate 500 persons.
Hostetter’s holds'about 300 per
sons.
The $25 ticket /Will admit one
person and a guest. They may ,be
purchased from Miller, Greider or
at the Exchange.
Another meeting of the, com
mittee is scheduled for Monday
night at the Center.
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Offering of Season Sells Strong
Lancaster Markets: Largest Steer
By DAVID S. LOBUNSON
USDA Market News Service
WEDNESDAY TO
WEDNESDAY REVIEW
- LANCASTER, March 21, CAT
TLE: 4,261, week ago 3,826. The
largest, offering of .slaughter
steers of the current season sold
strong to 50 cents higher com
pared with last Wednesday, fiest
demand centered on choice and
prime steers.
Heifers and sows around 25
cents higher, bulls fully steady.
Stockers and feeders fuly steady
to strong. Receipts for three days
comprised 70 loads slaughter
steers; three loads of heifers. Ap
propriately 45 per cent of the
total was stockers and feeders
and 10 per cent cows. Bulk choice
fed steers 1,000-1,300 lbs. $21.25-
25. N
Several loads and lots high
choice to low prime fed steers
$23.50-24.25. Most good and low
choice steers $19.75-21, some
standard and low good $lB-19.50.
A few small lots standard and low
good heifers $15.50-19. Most util
ity and commercial cows $l3-15,
cutter grades largely $11.50-14,
rou CAN STOP WORRYING ABOUT
MARKET PRICES , IE YOU HAVE
LOTS OF
BIG EGGS!
ass
Usually, "large" egg* are worth $3.00
to $6.00 more per caje than "Mediums".
You can be sure of early largo ego*
and many of them when your house*
ore full of Ist Generation Mount Hope
Leghorns. *
Along with large eggs you get good
iced conversion and high interior egg
quality.
Get all the fact* about “•uilt-in
Profits" in our New Folder—just out
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*H«n inantMy bails
high yielding cutters to $14.25,
canners $9.75-11. Utility and com
mercial bulls $15.50-18, good
yearling fed bulls $19.50.
Bulk medium and good stocker
and feeder steers and light year
lings 530-925 lbs. $lB-21.50, part
load 1,040 lb. good fleshy feeders
$21.75 and several load* fleshy
850-950 lb. feeders $20.50-20,75.
Load 487 lb. choice stock steer
calves $24.
CALVES: 1,051, week ago 892.
High good and choice vealers
mostly steady, average good and
below weak to $1 lower. Bulk
good and choice vealers $21.50-28,
a few to $3l. Utility and standard
$l3-20.50, sopie culls down to $lO.
'HOGS: 1,918, week ago 1,546.
Barrows and gilts around 25 cents
lower than last Wednesday, sows
in small supply steady to weak.
Bulk barrows and gilts mixed U.S.
2 and 3, 190-230 lbs. in Wednes
day's trade $18.25-18.50, scattered
lots mixed 1 and 2, 200-220 lbs.
$18.75-19 only small lots No. 1
to $19.50. Weights 240-270 lbs.
slow $16.75-18, some 160-180 lb.
weights $l7-18. Sows mixed U. S.
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