‘B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 22, 1959- Af Lancaster Yards Most Cattle Prices Weak lames E. O'Hara, la Charge, Market News Branch "WEEKLY REVIEW CATTLE. In the Cattle Di vision this week receipts to taled about 4500 head or a- Toout 1000 more than last week. Supply consisted of 45 per cent slaughter steer and 45 per cent stockers and feeders. Also included in the sup ply were 72 head of Garden Spot show calves, which were sold on Wednesday af ternoon. Trading was slow ■on slaughter steers but mod erately active on all other ■classes. „ Slaughter steers were 50 lower compared with last week’s close. Cows on the other hand were 50 higher. Suits sold steady to Stockers and feeders were weak. Bulk choice slaughter steers brought 28.25-29-25. Load average to high choice weighing 1355 lb. brought 28 25. Few lots high choice 1025-1172 lb. sold at 29.50. Load high-choice high yielding steers weighing 1,- 168 lbs. commanded 30.25. Good to low-choice steers made 26 00-28.25, standard down to 24.75. Cutter and utility cows ranged from 17,-21.25, with commercial cows up to 22.00 while canners and low cut ters brought *l5 50-17. Utili ty and commercial bulls sold at 22.50-25., with good grade fed bulls selling up to 26.25 and a few at 26.50. Good and choice 800-1050 lb. feeder steers brought 27- 29.25, and medium and good 25.00- 25. Good & choice 500-800 lb stock steers made 29.00- 00, with choice grade very scarce Medium and good Stockers made 27.- "29 50. Few lots of good grade stock calves brought 29.00 - 33 50 and medium and low good made 26 00-30 00. CALVES: Trading moder ately acave on about 650 head of vealers, or about the fame as last week Vealers held steady throughout the week Good and choice veal ers ranged from 28.00-34 00, and choice and prime 34.00- 38 00, standard and low-good brought 22 00-28 00, and util- FROM CANADA a layer with an international reputation! 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S. 1-3 grade 180-225 lb. bar rows and gilts ranged be tween 16.00-16.50, with No. 3 selling down to 15.75. Hogs more uniform for weight and grade including 1-2 grade including 1-2 grade 190-220 lb. hogs at 16.75-17.25. 170- 190 lb. butchers brought 15.- 25-16.00. " 300-600 lb. sows made 9.00-12.00. SHEEP: In the Sheep Di vision Spring lambs held steady in active trading. Re ceipts, about 559 head, or some 200 head more than last week. Good and choice 75-95 lb. spring slaughter lambs ranged from 23.06-25.- 00, with utility selling down to 18.00. $lOO Prizes Slated For 4-H Essay Event Lancaster’s Kiwanis Club has announced an essay con test, featuring county 4-H club members’ knowledge and application of soil and natural resource conservat ion. Members must write about conservation practices in e£ feet on their family farms. Prizes will be one $5O and two $25 U.S. Savings Bonds. Final entry date will bo sometime in mid-November, and essays should be at least 300 words in length. New U. S. Record Litter Displayed by Kaeding Family Art (extreme left} and Karl (extreme right) Kaeding show off their Landrace litter that set a new national record tar litter weight at weaning time (56 days). Art's two sons and members of the Wayne Feeds staff are others in photo. Kaeding Brothers' 16-Pig Litter Sets New National Record For 56-Day Weight BRIDGMAN, MICH. ~ A 36-pig Landrace litter owned by Ait and Kail Kaeding made hog history here Sat in day when it set a new na tional record foi litter weight at weaning. The pigs averaged 53"4 lbs. each for a total litter weight of 939 lbs at 8 weeks of age. Mama pig, w ho v, as finishing a well-earned 2-wccks’ va cation (the pigs actually wei e weaned at 6 weeks, but hogmen by custom use the 8-week period for a growth yndshek), showed no ex citement, but theie was They used the same Wayne Feeds you get at ROHRER'S MILL SUNSHINE FARM SUPPLY R.D. 1, Ronks' Pa. MILLERSVILLE SUPPLY CO. ROSS C. ULRICH, IR. Millersville, Pa. ABERDEEN MILLS 288 R.D. 2, Elizabethtown, Pa. R.D. 1. Willow Street, Pa. Chicago Cattle Steers, Cows, Heifers Off CHICAGO, AUG. 20 WEEKLY REVIEW — CATTLE Receipts eight per cent larger than last week but eight per cent smaller than the correspond ing period last yeSc, supplies largest for any week in two months. Between 70-75 per cent slaughter steers and 15- 20 per cent heifers. Percent age of steers slightly small er than last week and the percentage of heifers slight ly increased. Around six per cent cows and only two per cent stockers and feeders Around eight percent of the steer supply prime grades, About the same as last week, around 65 per cent choice, up a few percentage points from last week. Average weight of slaughter steers promising to be a few points heavier than last weeks av erage of 1162 lbs. Slaughter steers and heif ers under continued down ward price pressure but no decline of consequence oc cured until Wednesday, slaughter steers closed un evenly 25-1.00 lower than late last week, mostly 50-75 lower and a general market at a low for the year. Heifers 25 to mostly 50 lower. Prices on cows turned downward Wednesday, the first lower market on cows since late July, cows grading utility and below closed weak to 50 lower than late uast week or mostly 1.00 lower than the high time tarly this week when prices for cows were at the highest level in nearly two months, cows grading commercial & better still steady to 50 high er than last weeks close. Bulls mostly steady. Vealers plenty of it in the hog indus try. The Kacdings, who were not pushing for a lecord, did not realize they had one until the Landrace Association dis covered it when checking the weight slips. Soon to join the gleeful celebration was Wayne Feeds, whose feeding pio gram the Kaeding brothers have followed exclusively for years. The Kacdings freely gave cicdit to Wayne for its part in feeding the litter and in conditioning the blood sow .... H. M. STAUFFER & SON'S, Inc. Witmer - Ronks - Leola, Pa. Lititz, Pa. R.D. 2, Peach Bottom, Pa. LIME VALLEY MILLS New Holland Steer Mkt. Very Slew (Specials from New Holland Sales Scabies ' New Holland sn 5 * 11 Thursday beef and , 8 S ket found a very *i oi market; especially. 11 heavy and high r 4,„ 0 $1 lower All from 50 - 75 iJr 1 * steady-to strong o dy. Calves 5 Receipts: Cattle 6U l 3JI. D 14 ’ I steady. Feeding steers 750 Jbs. up steady to weak, un der 750 Ig stackers and light feeding steers strong io fully 50 hgher. Loadlots mostly prime 1,- 100-1350 lb. steers early 29.- 00-29.75, mast comparable cattle late 28.50-29 00 with only four loads 1175-1275 lb. Choice biucher ct weights 29.25 and 29.50; - 29.50; good—26 2ft 1 Early bulk choice and mixed -med. - 24-26 1 choice and prime steers 14.00 Good butcher L, lb. Down 27.00-28.75, Late . 2 5 pi - med bulk 26.75-28.25 with some ~t l, ' 19 -i loads mostly choice steers „ 26.50, few loads choice and m “ 6 ’ an d I prune 1400-1450 lb steers 26.75-28.50, some average Good cows §2O . choice 1050 lb. steers early pi- • rued— lB,so 21 sold up to 28.00 during the canners and cutters , week loadlots mixed good & 20. ' 2 choice steers largely 26.25 - Stockers.and 26.75, standard to average - $24.60-2685, s S good grades 23.50 - 26.00, calves -29 s>o-33 Two loads standard 1150 lb. prime vealeis 35 0 holstein steers 24.25, Few good - 31-35;\ me( j mixed utility and standard and thin veafers -is holstein steers 22.50-23 50. The Aug 19%airv! Load prime 1036 lb. heif- receipts nr 162 cowt ers 29.00 early, these feedlot stock bulls, and 31 mates of heifers at the same Market on - price two weeks ago, load- JTrggh JHplstein lots high choice and mixed $350 -44 CT, choice and prime heifers 27.- 320, and others - 28.25,, late bulk good to Bulls - $l4O-215 high choice heifers 24.00-26.- ers . 135 ’ 50 with two loads high *rh e Aue 17 choice 975 lb. Weight 26.75 had ' 168 few utility and standard market, except for heifers 19.00 23.50. AH mules to 8-8 H Few standard and - good market j cows 20.00-22.00, utility and Ponies "- ,$"751, commercial cows closed at horses - 110 300, (Turn to page 5) - 110 - 140 2 gal. Artex motor oil Poultry Feeders 40c - $10.40 Poultry Founts 16c - $4.40 Poultry wire 2” mesh $4.60 up Poultry wire 1” mesh $9 45 up Chick starter $4 35 Buttermilk grower $415 Crumbles 20c extra 16% All mash $3.95 20 % Quality mash $4 25 Fine chick -feed i $4.95 Prices subject to change ALTMAN’S CASH FEB) S' 947 Harrisburg Pike Ph Lane Willis H. Weaver, Mgr. the crop harves ! Insist on HI-QUALITY SEED • Cert. Wong Barley • Cert. Dual • Cert. Hudson Barley , Cert> Seneca • Balbo Rye. (Pasture Type) • Tetra Petkus Rye • Cert. Thorne Now Is The Time To Alfalfa and Grasses • Cert. DuPuils • Cert. Vernal • Timothy • Clovers • Birdsfoot Trefoil • Pasture Mixtures SMOKETOV/N Poultry womer Rabbit Pellets $1.38 Alt. Dog Meal Prance Dog food Altman’s Milk E< Altman’s calf food 25 II Fitting ration 16% Dairy 20% Hog feed Special cßop Roofing roll Roof cement Hog wormea you • Cert. Pennol • Cert. Buffalo • Cert. Ranger • 537 Orchard • Brome Grass ® Reeds Can' • Ladxno CloV ef Phone I-anC'
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