2—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Oct. 11, 1957
Broilers Continue Drop; Average
17.38 Cents at Lancaster Thursday
LANCASTER—The price for
broilers drifted lower at the Oct.
3 auction of the Lancaster Poul
try Exchange. A total of 152,300
broilers m 34 lots averaged 17.38
cents with a spread of from 15%
to 18% cents.
A year ago 159,650 broilers av
eraged about .40 cents higher
with the average being 17.76
cents and the top was 20 cents.
At the recent sale a lot of 400
heavy fowl brought 16V* cents;
three lots, 1,550 head, of Leg
horns went at 13% and 14 cents;
a lot of 1,000 heavy pullets sold
for 25% cents; two lots, 2,450
head, of cockerel capettes sold
for 27% and 27% cents cents; and
a lot of 3,000 capettes went at 22
cents.
Here is the Oct. 3 sale by lot
S 200 White Cross Chicks 3 Weeks Old
IT.BC. Sulphur lodized Plain
50 lb. Salt Blocks 1.35 IXI2 1.15 .90
4 lbs. Salt Bnck .24 .21 .22 .19
2 Water Softener Pellets 52.26 Fitting Ration .. 53*45
|| starter Med, $4.20 _21% Bluebird Dairy . 53.1#
Grower Med. . . 54.20 Horse Feed 53##
It Bluebird Allmash 16% 53.90 2#% Hog Feed 4.4#
§ Scratch $3.50 DJP. 53.70 Dog Meal $«••»
H Fine Chick 54.85 Star Dry 52.4#
116% Dairy 53.35
Safety Zone Signs 60* doz. No Trepass Notices 45* doz.
Special chop for Hogs, Steers, and Sheep 53.35
ALTAIAN’S CASH FEED STOKE
I . WfIXIS H. WEAVER MANAGER
ll Ml Harrisburg Ave. ftooe Lane. EX 4*7715
2 j iQc per hundred discount on half ton lots or more.
II PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE —WE DELIVER
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number, seller with grower in
parenthesis; number and breed,
age in weeks and days; buyer and
price.
1. Farm Bureau (James Mc-
Dowell Jr.). 9,100 White Van
tress, 10, Victor F. Weaver Inc.,
17V2 cents. 2. Samuel Kolb, 7,500
White Vantress, 9-3, Victor F.
Weaver Inc., 17 cents. 3. Samuel
Kolb, 7,500, White Vantress, 9-3,
H. W. Longacre Inc., 17 cents.
4. Samuel Kolb, 4,500 White Van
tress,9-3, H. W. Longacre Inc.,
17V* cents. 5. Charles G. Myer,
3,000 White Vantress, 11, College
Hill Poultry, 17 cents.
6. Paul Z. Martin. 2,300 White’
Vanthpsp, 10-1, Leola Poultry.
17% cents. 7. Clayton S. Zimmer
man, 1,000 White Vantress, 10,
(Continued to awge three)
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Sauder Bros.
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Lancaster Ph. EX 2-5722
Midwest Markets
'CHICAGO, Oct. 8 Estimat
ed salable receipts cattle; 8,000,
calves. 200, hogs: 9,500, sheep
1.500
CATTLE- Slaughter cattle slow
fed steers 50 lower, heifers' weak
to 25 lower; cows and bull steady
to weak; vealers 1.00 higher,
stockers and feeders _ about
steady. Load prime 1225 lb. fed
steers 27.75, high-choice and mix
cd choice and prime steers 24 75-
.25.75, good to low-choice 21.00-
23.25; average-good to high
ohoice heifers 20.50-23.25, two
loads mostly choice 790 lbs
lbs 22.25; utility and commercial
cows 13.25-15.50, canners and cut
ters 11.50-13.50; utility and com
mercial bulls 15.75-17.50; good
and choice vealers 25.00-27.000,
standard vealers selling down to
19.00.
HOGS; Slow, 25-50 lower on
barrows and gilts, sows weak to
25 lower; 200-20 lbs. 17.50-17 75,
65 head Lot No. 1 and 2 228
lbs. 18.00, 180-198 lbs- 16.75-17.50,
200-240 lbs. butchers predominat
ed; 325-525 lb. sows 16-50-17.25,
few around 300 lbs. and lighter to
17.50.
SHEEP: Good and choice lambs
steady, cull and utility weak to
Ijoo lower; yearlings fully steady;
bulk good and low-choice wooled
lambs 2150-2275, utility and low
good 1750-2050; fight culls down
to 1450; deck 100 lb. No. 1 pelt
good and choice lambs 21.00
Denver
Ph. EL. 4-8721
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The University of Maryland has run a series of experiments on J
various levels of fat.
They and others find that a high level of fat can reduce the amount |A m
of feed needed, but at the present time it Is not practical. Of
One of the reasons is COST. When "Early Bird" first used fat the cost was
4 cents per pound. Today the cost Is 8-1 /4 cents per pound.
A good poultryman is interested in the COST OF FEED per pound of meat,
or per dozen eggs.
For Instance, it would mean little if a salesman told you:
"My feed will make a dozen eggs on 3 pounds of feed."
But at what COST?
Same thing with meat. "Early Bird" can now be made to produce a pound of
meat with 2 pounds of feed. But is it a practical measure of COST?
The answer is NO at present ingredient costs.
Of course one grower made a profit because of a good market price.
Another may have hit a weak market and might have no profits.
But it's the COST of feed per pound of meat, or per dozen eggs
that determines the efficiency of the feed.
Steve Notestine of Mifflintown R.D. #1 sold 21,000
birds at 9 weeks and 3 days. The average weight was 3.40.
Feed per pound of gain, 2.36. Not bad. But, more important...
Feed COST per pound was 10 cents.
Naturally, Steve is pretty happy about the cost
and profit on his broilers.
How much more would this low-cost mean to you?
Steve's feed is "Early Bird"
manufactured by Miller & Bushong. Call EXpress 2-2145
and we will send an experienced Service Man,
MILLER & BUSH
ROHRERSTOWN, PEN
Express 2-2143
Choice Steers Take Most of Drop
At Lancaster Market; Hogs Steady
By DAVID S. LORENSON
Federal-State Market News Service
LANCASTER—CATTLE Three
la>s 4,153, Week ago 3,837.
Slaughter steers and heifers
steady to 25 cents lower than last
Wednesday, most of the decline
centered on steers grading aver
age to high choice Cows 25 cents
high, bulls fully steady. Fully 40
oer cent of receipts stockers and
feeders and 15 per cent cows.
Ground 45 loads fed steers on
sale Most fed steers graded
good to high choice.
Bulk choice fed steers 1,000-
1,300 tbs. $23.25-25.25, high choice
and mixed high choice and prime
$25.50-26.25. A few loads prime
1,2004,398 lbs. $26.50-26.90; a
part load *1 fiS9 lb. prune steers
$27.15. Bulk good and low choice
fed steers 551.50-23.00 and stand
ard to'low good $lB-21. including
two loads lb. 1,220 lb. grass steers
$2l and load 1,073 lb. grassers
grading standard and good $l9.
Good and choice heifers 700-857
ibs. $19.50-22.80. Bulk utility and
commercial cows $14.50-16.50,
canners and cutters largely
$lO5O-15, few high yielding cut
ters to $1550. Utility and conu
mercial hulls $16.50-20; good fed
yearling bulls to $22-00.
Bulk medium and good stocker
and feeder steers and light year
lings 632W994 tbs. $18.50-21.50,,
common stock steers $15.50-1750.
Several loads and lots good and
choice stock steer calves 357-575
lbs $22.50-25.50.
CALVES- 844, week ago 977.
Veal calves moderately active
fully steady with last Wednesday.
Bulk good and choice vealers 140-
220 lbs. $23-29, high choice and
prime $29.50-32. Utility and stand
ard grades $l5-22.50.
HOGS: 1,135, week ago 1,273.
Barrows and gilts fully steady
with last Wednesday. Sows m
small supply fully steady. Bulk
barrows and gilts mixed US 2 and
3, 200-240 lbs. in Wednesdays
trade at $19.75, a few head $19.50,
small lots No. 1 and 2, $2O-20.50.
Bulk of supply this week went to
local small killers. Weights 160-
190 lbs. $18.75-19.50. Sows mixed
US 1-3, 270-550 lbs. $13.50-18.
SHEEP: 441, week ago, 316.
Slaughter lambs fully steady with
last'Wednesday. Most good and
choice native wooled lambs 70-90
lbs. $22-25, utility and low good
$l6-21.50, culls down to $l3. Aged
sheep scarce.
Farm Value Increases
3 Pet. During Summer
Between March 1 and July 1 of
1957, the market value of farm
land in the U.S. increased by
three per cent, according to a re
port titled Current Developments
in the Farm Real Estate Market,
released Oct. 7 by the Agricul
tural Research Service.
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