2—Lancaster Farming, Friday, April 4, 1958
Lancaster Markets: Slaughter Steers
Steady to Dollar Lower; Hogs Drop
23.50, few utility to $24, good
fed yearling bulls $25-26.50.
Bulk medium- and good stocker
and feeder steers and light year
lings 590-1,026 lbs. $25-27.50, sev
eral lots and loads mixed good
and choice 650-931 lb. stocker
and feeding steers $27.50-29, few
$3O, part load choice 664 lb
stock steers $32
CALVES- 980, week ago 726
Vealers moderately active un
evenly steady to 50 cents higher
Bulg good and choice vealers 140-
210 lbs. $2B-33, high choice to
$35, standard grade $24 50-28
utility down to $lB, culls as low
as $l3. j
HOGS' Three days 1,897, week
ago 1,572 Barrows and gilts .75-
$1 00 lower than last Wednesday,
sows in small supply about steady.
Bulk barrows and gilts mixed US
1, 2 and 3 190-230 lbs. in Wed
nesday’s trade $22-22.50, a few
lots No 1 and 2 these weights
$23, small lots No 2 and 3, 230-
250 lbs. $21.25-22, a few around
By Dave Lorenson
Federal-State News Service
LANCASTER. April 2 CAT
TLE Three days, 3,313, week ago
4,266 ' Compared with last Wed
nesday slaughter steers unevenly
steady to $lOO lower, heifers
scarce steady to weak, cows 25
cents, instances 50 cents higher.
Stockers and feeders steady to
weak.
Receipts about one-third small
er than a week ago Around 40
per cent receipts stockers and
feeders and 20 per cent cows and
bulls Around 46 loads slaugh
ter steers and equivalent of two
loads heifers. j
Bulk choice fed steers 1,000-
1,310 lbs. $2B-32, a few lots and
load 1,090-1,150 lbs. high choice
and mixed choice and prime
532 40-32 90 Good and low choice
steers $26 75-28. Small lots stand
ard to low choice heifers $22.50-
26 50 Bulk cutter and utility
cows by Wednesday $l5 75-19 50,
few commercial to $20.50. Can
ners and low cutters $14.50-15 50.
tihty and commercial bulls $22-
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Hogs Drop; Cattle
Steady to Half
Higher at Chicago
CHICAGO, April 1 Estimat
ed Salable Receipts; Cattle 4,500,
Calves. 200; Hogs: 8,500; Sheep:
1,000.
CATTLE: Slaughter steers,
heifers and cows active, steady to
fully 50 higher, bulls steady to
w eak; vealers 100 higher; stock
ers and feeders steady, mixed
choice and prime 1200-1350 lb.
■ slaughter steers 36.000-36 50, bulk
i choice 28 00 34 00, good to low
-1 choice 25.00-27.75; good and
choice heifer 24.00-28 000, good
and dhoice 25.50-26.00; utility and
commercial cows 17.25-21.00 can
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180 lbs. mixed grade down to
$21.50 Sows mixed US 1, 2 and 3,
300-550 lbs. $l6-19
SHEEP- Three days 1,100
week ago 510 Supply more than
double due to liberal offering
'lightweight spring lambs for the
special Easter trade. Slaughter
lambs fully steady with Wed
nesday. Bulk good and choice 35-
75 lb native spring lambs $29
33, odd small lots high choice to
$35 and 36, four head $3B.
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At Lancaster Poultry Exchange Sale
LANCASTER, March 27 In
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Lancaster Poultry Exchange.
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This was also the first sale in
several months in which all the
birds offered were sold.
The price for broilers ranged
from 22Vz cents to 23 H cents. The
average was 22 75 cents.
Two lots of heavy fowl, 600
head, brought 26Vt and 26Vi
cents.
Capettes remained at a high
level with the range being from
29‘i to 37 cents. A total of 12,250
head were sold m 10 lots.
James Auker got the high
price paid for 4,500 White Van*
tress broilers The buyer was
Daniel K Good, Columbia.
Good also bought the highest
priced lot of capettes. He paid
N Parke Miller 37 cents a pound
for 700 White Vantress capettes
that were 13 weeks, two days old.
A year ago 113,100 broilers
were sold for an avearge of 21.03
cents a pound. The (high price
paid was 22M, cents and the low
was 17 cents a pound.
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