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Egg Numbers Up, Hens Down
In February, State Survey Shows
HARRISBURG Although re
duced in numbers, Pennsylvania
hens "warmned up” for an ex
pected record observance of
.March Egg Month by producing
-0'94 million eggs during Febru
ary, according to Federal-State,
surveys announced March 14 by
the -State Department of Agricul
ture.
Output of eggs was sufficient
to give Pennsylvania third place
among all the states for Febru
ary. Production was headed only
by lowa’s 447 million and Cali
fornia’s 340 million eggs, records
.^how.
Fighting a cost-price squeeze,
Pennsylvania farmers last month
culled poor-producing layers from
their flocks, leaving 18,475,000,
lowest for the month in eight
years and 745,000 below February
1956 Mild weather assisted hens
and laying pullets to come
through with a record February
average of 15.9 eggs, about one
sper cent above the February rate
last year when adjusted to a 28-
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Total egg output in Pennsyl
vania last month equaled Febru
ary production for each of the
past two years. For. the first two
months of this year the grand to
tal is 622 million eggs compared
with 619 million for January-Feb
ruajy 1956.
The price received by Pennsyl
vania farmers fot eggs on Feb. 15
averaged 39 cents per dozen, the
same as a month "previous but 7
cents below February 1956. The
price equaled January 1955, May
and June 1954, but otherwise was
the lowest for any month since"
1942.
Liveweight farm chickens at
16.5* cents per pound were down
one cent from January, seven
cents below Feb. 15, 1956, and ex
cepting the November price was
the lowest for any month since
1940.
Broiler prices registered a 1.5
cent increase for the month but
averaged three cents below a year
earlier. Turkey prices, averaging
34 cents, dropped 1 cent from the
Jan. 15 level, 4 cents from mid-
Februaiy 1956, and equaled the
15-year low of January-February
1955.
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Egg Marketing
Survey Started
By Pennsylvania
HARRISBURG Anticipating
f hat some current ills of the de
pressed poultry industry m Penn
sylvania might be remedied
through improved marketing of
pggs, the Pennsylvania Crop Re
penting Service in the State De
partment of Agriculture Friday
started an intensive survey of egg
marketing practices.
More than 18,000 egg
selected at random in Pennsyl
vania are being asked to partici
pate.
Queries to the producers in
clude both volume and,value of
eggs sold by producers in various
ways, ranging from sales at the
farm to deliveries to a coopera
tive. Machine sorting of answers
will aid in uncovering the poor,
indifferent, good and excellent
methods currently practiced.
"Pennsylvania’s poultry indus
try has changed greatly in recent
•years with respect to its geograp
hic distribution of production,”
Agriculture Secretary William L.
Henning declared
“High production costs and low
income from eggs indicate that
distribution facts should be most
helpful at this time. But we need
first-hand information from pro
ducers themselves so that pro
grams for improvement can be
initiated.”
Dewey O. Boster, agricultural
statistician m charge of the Penn
sylvania Crop Reporting Service,
is supervising the study. He said
data from the survey will be
made available as soon as com
pleted next fall to poultry hus
bandry officials at the Pennsyl
vania-State University, the State
Poultry Federation, the State
Bureau of Markets and the Penn
sylvania Food Marketing .Ad
visory Committee, among others.
Boster urged all poultry egg
producers who receive the survey
questionnaire to cooperate by
filling out the questions and re
turning the report as soon as pos
sible.
Poultry
LIVE POULTRY
PHILADELPHIA, March 20
(USDA) Unsettled. Demand
fair. Most classes were in more
than adequate supply. White Rock
pullets sold slowly at 32-34 cents.
White Rock caponettes 2S-32 with
bulk unsold, medium sizes 25
cents. Caponetted cross fryers 25
cents. White Rocks 23-24 cents,
few lots 25 cents without clearing.
Reds 23-25 cents with bulk un
sold. Turkeys unsettled. De
mand fair. Supplies were more
than ample. Few lots heavy type
young hens 38 cents, light type
35 cents. Heavy type young toms
25 cents without clearing.
Total receipts March 19
110.000 lbs. included Delaware
25.000 lbs., Maryland 9,000 lbs.
Wholesale selling prices No. 1
_and fancy quality broilers or fry
ers; heavy type 3-4 lb., 23-25. Pul
lets 4% lb. and over 32-34. Hens,
heavy type 19-25, light type 11-
14. Ducks, Muscovy 27, Pekin 31-
32. Turkeys, young hens 35-38,
young toms 25.'
PROCESSED POULTRY
PHILADELPHIA, March 20
(USDA) Processed poultry,
ready-to-cook (ice packed) young
chickens weak. More than suf
ficient supplies were offered for
the fair demand. -
Prices paid delivered ware
house, Philadelphia (cents per
lb.) Grade A & U.S. grade A, 2-3
lb. 31-34, mostly 31-32%.
Hens: ready -to - cook (ice
packed), barely steady. Demand
good for heavy type and fair for
light type. Fully adequate sup
plies were available.
Prices paid delivered ware
house, Philadelphia (cents per
lb.) Grade A & U.S. grade A 4-5%
lb. 30-32.
Receipts March 19 included
other than turkeys; Maryland 72,-
000 lbs., Delaware 72,000 lbs.,
Virginia 18,000 lbs., Tennessee
27,000 lbs.. North Carolina 44,000
lbs., South Carolina 21,XM)0 lbs.
Lancaster Farming, Friday, March 22, 1957—3
. Eggs
PHILADELPHIA, March 20
(USDA) Barely steady. Ample
supplies of all grades were avail
able for the continued good de
mand. Current receipts sold in
sihall lots at 27-28 cents.
Wholesale selling prices: mini
mum 10 per cent AA quality,
large 45-48 lb. white 36-38, brown
36-37, medium white 33-34, brown
33-34. Extras, minimum 60 per
cent A quality, large 45-50 lb.
white 33%-34, mixed 32%-34,
mixed' 32%-33, medium white 32-
32%, mixed 31%-32. Standards
31-32, checks 27-28.
Receipts March 19 3,500
cases all by truck.
Ten different species of disease
carrying insects have now de
veloped immunity to insecticides
which used to kill them.
1700 White Cornish
Cross 12^
800 Leghorn Pullets . . 280
Heavy Seconds 40
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Marietta Ph. HAzel 6-7123
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Lancaster Markets
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1-3, 270-550 lbs. $13.50-15.
SHEEP: 193, week ago 119. A
small supply of lambs mostly
steady with last Wednesday.
Quabty of the wooled lambs was
plain. Bulk good to choice wooled
lambs 75-95 lbs. $l9-23, utility and
low good $l4-18, cull and utility
down to $l2. A few small lot new
crop native spring lambs 45-55
lbs. 26-30. Aged sheep too scarce
for a market test.
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willow's r.
Ph. Lane. LX 3-2821
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