TERRAMYCIN-HORMONE INCREASES GAINS Tests at the Kentucky Agncul tural Experiment Station indicate daily gains of steers can be in creased 0.48 pound by using a combination of a synthetic hor mone and an antibiotic. Dr. W. P. Garngus, head of the animal hus bandry section and A. R. Parsons, beef specialist at the Kentucky station, say implants of 12- and 24-milligram pellets of diethyl stilbestrol in the ear of yearling Angus steers resulted in an aver age daily gain of 0.26 pound high er than non-implanted steers. Ad dition of 80 milligrams of terra mycm to the salt each steer was eating daily produced an addi tional daily gain of 0.22 pounds. the crop you harvest depends on the seed ’ you sow... Insist onCEEQIiS Hi-yielding Seed Wheat k Cert. Seneca * Wheat k Cert. Pennoll Wheat ★ Dual Wheat ★ Wong Barley k Hudson Barley k Balbo Rye ★ Tetra Petkus Rye OUR STORE WILL BE CLOSED ALL DAY SATURDAY SEPT. 27th Due to wedding m the family. SMOKETOWN, PA. Ph. LANC, EX 2-3659 Is Your Dairy Program Complete? Do You Handle Your Roughage To The Best Advantage? Do You Feed Your Cows On The Basis Of Their Capacity To Produce? Do You Feed The Right Kind of Grain Ration And The Correct Protein Level? Do You Enjoy The ECONOMY OF BULK DELIVERY? 4. FOR HELPFUL SUGGESTIONS . . . ASK ANY MILLER & BUSHONG REPRESENTATIVE OR CALL LANCASTER EX 2-2145, COLLECT. Manufacturers of Poultry and Live Stock Feed Since 1875. Wednesday New York Egg Market Copyrighted 1958 By Urner-Barry Co. Extra Fancy Heavyweights Mediums . .... Pullets . . . .. Peewees . Extra Fancy Heavyweights Mediums Pullets Peewees ... Fancy Heavyweights Mediums . . Pullets ... . Standards ... Checks ... . Fancy Heavyweights Mediums Pullets . . Fancy Heavyweights Trading here quite restricted under close observance of Hebrew holiday. Indications point to a steadier position Weekly Egg Price Review Nfay White Sept. 18 Ex Fey Hywts 54 Mediums 43 Pullets . 25% Peewees 19 NEARBY BROWN Ex Fey Hywts Mediums Pullets . Peewees 55 43 32 19 Lancaster Markets (Continued from page 2) CALVES. Vealers fairly active, steady. Good and choice vealers $29-34, high-choice and prime $35- 36. Standard and low-good $24 50- 29, utility and standard $l9 50- 24 50. HOGS: Trading fairly active, barrows and gilts 250 to mostly 50? higher U S No 1-3 mixed weight and grade 190-230 lb bar rows and gilts $22-22.50, few lots No. 1 and 2 these weights $22.75- 23.25; 230-280 lbs $21.25-22.25 Sows steady, No 1-3 300-550 ibs $l7-20. Boars all weights $l4-18 SHEEP Slaughter spring lambs moderately active, steady Good and low-choice slaughter spring lambs $23-24, utility and low gcod $l9-23, few culls $l7-18. Miller & Bushong, Inc. Rohrerstown, Pa. Ph. Lancaster EX 2-2145 Nearby Whites Nearby Browns Midwestern Mixed Midwestern Whites Midwestern Browns Sept 19 Sept. 22 51% 51% 43 % -44 43%-44 25% 25% , 19 19 *4, 54. 4.Q 42 -42 Vi 41%-42 38 -33 31 31 29 19 19 19 CHICAGO MARKET Continued from page 2) $26 50. Some comparable 1400 lb steers $26 75 and $27 75. Few loads and lots good steers $24 50 23 according to weight. High choice and prime heifers $26 75-27 75 Load 997 lb straight heifers and two loads 1075 lb mix ed yearlings $27 75, good to aver age choice heifers $24.50-26.50 Mostly $25-26 50. Utility and standard grades $2O 50-24. Utility and commercial cows, $lB 5-21 50 Canners and cutters, $l5 50-19 Utility and commercial bulls $2150-24. Mostly $23.50 down Good and choice vealers $29-32, utility and standard $2O-29 Most culls $l5-19 Several sales good and choice 800-1050 lb feeding steers $25 50-26 50. Lancaster Farming, Friday, September 26, 1958—3 Broiler Prices Continue to Drag In Most Major Markets Areas In Nation Thxs week’s Delmarva broker _ * feed ratio held at 3.3 as the broil- booked 15 cents, FOB Plants sixteen tT price per pound dropped to conts 527,400 head sevety-flve per - ■ e\ Tk nn \ v , cents sixteen cents, twenty-five per lb 10. Price Of 20 per cent broil- cent intra-company sales booked six er mash dropped from $98.56 per teen cents „ . , . rnr7 00 * 0 10 . NORTH CAROLINA Broilers & fry ton to $97 28* $2 12 above the feed ers> offerings adequate demand fair to price one year ago, but $2.31 und- good Prices aid 24 hrs ending 10 am r „„„ today 2 :; 4-3>/jlb at farm fifteen cents er SIX months ago. 564600 head ninety-seven per cent at 15, Broiler feed ratio one year thiee per cent undetermined Hvy hens ago was 4 7 and 4.4 six months * 1 valley: Broilers & ago, as broiler prices were .7.84 liyers, demand fair trading very , 0 , rrn quiet Prices paid at farm 24 hrs end and 21.72 respectively. mg jj am today 2Vfe-3V4tt> 15-1564 163,- Following are the Tuesday mar- 500 head fifty-nine percent 15, three .n maim- nmHiwinir nroac of per cent 1564, thirty-eight per cent un. KCtS in major producing areas 01 determined Hvy hens 15 15V*j mos. 15, the nation. Lgt Type hens 12 TURKEYS about HELMARVA Trading steady Prices steady Sml Type Fryers 24-24 Va mos paid at farm 24 hours ending 10 30 am 2 „, HvyType Tonis 21 - r today broilers & fryers 2Vt\h & over ARKANSAS; & fijers G - mos 3-3'/ilb 1464-15 60 211,200 head eially adequate for trade Two per cent 14'/ 2 42 per cent 15, six paid & volume distribution at^ farm 24 per cent 15 20, 12 per cent 1564. eight hrs ending “°“ n pet cent 15 30, thirty per cent intra co cents 622471 thiity-seven p transfers Eastern shore paultry gro w- cent at undetermined prices rty "jasam&s ”/■#££•»., sr.s£ sssjs.'sraAaa ‘“hasas »..I™,. S»U um 891,600 head FOB Plants 16,448,800 am Tuesday. 26 2 -41 b at farm one bund head Prices paid & reported volume red per cent 15 511,670 head FOB foi yesterday Sept 22 at farms 15- Plants one hundred per cent 16, 103, 15'. cents 862,100 head eighty per cent 860 head 47% 38 25%-26 19 49 38 29 19 46 371/2 23%-24% 39 -40 30 46 38 25%-26 Sept 23 47% 38 25%-26 19 FLORIN FARMS H & N Nick Chick Leghorns w ® re , the FIRST QUARTER more times than any other breeder m ine test for nine d.fferent traits at the 1958 Pennsylvania Random Sample Laying Test with 48 top U S breeders competing FLORIN FARMS H & N’s were ranked in the lirst quarter for 8 out of 9 traits being tested I PROOF AGAIN that H & N’s will produce consistently higher poultry profits for YOU Now is the time jour farm GET THE FACTS about H & N “Nick Chick” Leghorns Write for free booklet and price list today Save with early discounts ot 2g to 5d per pullet chick 'U*ah,Tm*Hs FEED FOR TOP FINISH with Wayne SWEET MIX This top quality protein supplement Is specially formulated for * heavy grain feeding. ; I+'* high Vitamin A and protein content plus the proper mineral balance produces maximum gains and a high degree of finish r . . . economically and efficiently. t FOR SHEEP—feed Wayne Sweet Mix without stiibestroi. \ STILBESTROL Wayne Sweet Mix Is available with er with eut stiibestroi. H. M. Stauffer & Sons> Inc., Witmer-Ronks-Leola, Pa. Charles E. Sander & Son’s, R. D. 1, East Earl, Pa. Aberdeen Mills, Millersville Supply Co., R. D. 2, Elizabethtown, Pa- Millersville, Pa. : S. H. Hiestand & Co., J. K. Stauffer & Son 9 Salunga, Pa. Lawn and Bellaire, Pa- Lime Valley Mills, Ross C. Ulrich, Jr., R. D. 1, Willow Street, Pa. R. D. 2, Peach Bottom, Pa. Rohrer’s Mill, Sunshine Farm Supply R. D. 1, Ronks, Pa. Lititz, Pa. FLORIN FARMS this year, to put H & N s to work for you on VISIT FLORIN FARMS BOOTH #295 -195 S NEPPCO SHOW BALANCED BREEDING Pays Off Again! • FLORIN FARMS, INC. Mt. Joy 2 Lancoster County ~ Pa. , Phone. Mt. Joy OLdfield 3-9891
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