2—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 2, 1960
At Lancaster Yards
Steer Quality Improves
Jamai E. O'Hara,
la CHorg*. Maik«< N«w» Branch
Cattle: 4700 compared to
3858 last week. Supply in
cludes 50 per cent slaughter
steers, 40 per cent Stockers
and feeders. Trading was sl
ow on bulls and stackers,
and feeders, moderately act
ive on slaughter steers and
cows. The quality was im
proved with a greater per
centage of choice grade av
ailable.
Compared with last week’s
close, slaughter steers were
steady to 50 higher with mo
st advance on high-choice
and prime grades. Cows 35
higher. Eulls barely steady.
Stockers and-' feeders steady.
The bulk of the choice gr
ade slaughter Steers 950-
1350 lbs. brought 27.50-30,
with several loads and lots
high-choice and prime 1152-
1225 lbs. at 30.50-31.50, a
load prime 1192 lbs. sold for
32. Good to low choice 24-
2T.50, few lots standard 22-
23.75.
'Good and choice heifers
785-1010 lbs sold for 23-26,
cutter, utility and commer
cial cows brought 16-18.50,
commercial cows were most
ly 18-18 50, canners and low
cutters 14-16. Good and ch
oice 800-1100 lb. feeder ste
ers- were 25 25-29, medium
Now is the ideal time to
apply New Jersey Green
Sand and Calphos to grain
and bay fields. If interest
ed in natural program of
farming it will pay you
to investigate and use
these natural colloidal
marine deposits,.
Any quantity available
Bag or Bulk
Ton or carload lots.
Also available our com
plete soil bafTder for
lawns, garden and all row
crops.- Try and compare.
BROOKLAWN FARM
118 Kreider Avenue
Ph. LO 9-1880
H. MERVIN McMICHAEL
Lane., H. 6 Ph. TR 2-4377
or your local dealer
FOR SALE
tm
CHORES MASTER
HEAVY DUTY TILLER
Do 3k whole week end’s work in a
few hours' A single pass does the
work of plow, disc, harrow . pre
pares ground for planting, furrows
for seeding, cultivates at any stage
of growth Operates with single
control center and recoil starter
Works ground 11’, 22" or 33"
wid* . . as deep as 10" Goes be
tween narrow rows
1 FOWH TOOL DOES IT ALL!
. breaks ground . hills
» cultivates • woeds
« furrows
EASY FAY PLAN
SPECIAL OFFER
FREE $12.95- Fuxrower-
Hiller attach, wi+h Heavy
Duty Tiller.
Stop in for Demonstration
L. H. BRUBAKER
350 Strasburg Pike Lane,
LiHiz, R. D. 3
Ph. Lane. EX 7-5179
Strasburg OV 7-6002
Litibs MA 6-7766
and good 22-26.50. Good and
choice 550-800 lb. stock ste
ers were 27.50-32, medium
and good 23.50-28. Few lots
good grade stock calves br
ought 29-30.
Ol pOJBdUIOO ‘OO l ISSAfGQ
752 last week. Trading was
modrately active. Vealers
were steady with last week’s
close. Good and choice veal
ers 27-33, choice and prim®
33-38, few prime selling at
39, standard and low good
19-26, utility 14-19.
Hogs: 2020 compared with
1996 last week. Trading was
moderately active. Barows
and gilts were steady to 25
higher. Sows steady. IT. S.
1-3 grade 190-230 lb. bor
rows and gilts 16.50-17, most
ly 16.50-16.75, few lots no.
3’s at 16.25. Hogs more uni
form for wgt. and grade, in
cluding U.S. 1-2 grade. 190-
220 lbs. n-11.15, U.S. I’s
the same wgt. brought 18.
230-250 lbs. sold for 16-16.50
US. 1-3. mostly 2-3 grade,
300-600 lb. sows 11-13.
Sheep: 175 compared with
165 last week. Trading was
moderately active. All class
es steady. Good and choice
80-105 lb. wooled slaughter
lambs sold for 21-24, utility
and low good 16 50-21. Good
and choice 50-90 lb. soring
lambs brought 27-28 with a
lot weighing 38 lbs. includ
ed at the 28 figure.
When a person dies leav
ing property, but no valid
will, he is said to die inte
state, and the court can ap
point an administrator to
settle the estate.
Feeder Pig
Sale
Monday, April 11
2 P.
CAROLINE SALES CO.
Denton, Md.
600 DISEASE-FREE PIGS,
eligible- for interstate
shipment.-
MD. SWINE PRODUCERS
ASSN., INC.
IT PREVENTS...
I I ERADICATES
TOBACCO BLUE MOLD
and WILDFIRE
Phytomycin
Mathieson’s :
new LIQUID antibiotic
0 LONGER LASTING
0 EASY AND ECONOMICAL TO USE
SUPERIOR TO WETTABLE POWDERS
0 BECAUSE:
1. Goes into 100% solution
2. No caking—forms better,
more uniform mixture
/J SAFE TO PLANTS /r#PS^V
ms ;
PHYTOMYCIN is manufactured by
E. R. Squibb Mt Sons, A. Division- of
Ohn Matluesoit Chemical Corporation
SEE YOUR DEALER OR
J. C. Ehrlich Chemical Co., Inc.
736 EAST CHESTNUT STREET
LANCASTER. PA. PHONE EX 7-3721
Chicago Cattle
Receipts Stllf
On Upswing
CATTLE— Unusual distri
bution of receipts, Wednes
days run of better than 18,-
OOOr larger than on Monday
and largest, for a mid week
market since January 1959.
Week’s supply slightly larg
er than last week, Largest in
two months and 20 per cent
above the corresponding per
iod last year.
Nearly 75 per cent of Re
ceipts slaughter steers, be
tween 15 and 20 percent
heifers and 5 percent cows.
About-8 per cent of the
steer supply prime. Around
55 percent choice and 30 per
cent good grades, average
weight of slaughter steers
may be little changed from
last weeks average of 1165
lbs.
Slaughter steers and heif
ers sold steady to higher on
Monday. However, steers
low prime and below and all
heifers more than lost Mon
days advance. Rank and file
steers low prime and below
closed steady to 50 lower
than late last week and SO
LDO under Monday. At the
weekend average prime to
high prime steers still steady
to 50 higher for the period
and at a new high since last
May.
Stockers and feeders stea
dy to 50 lower, Decline on
feeding steers over 800 lbs.
Load prime 1207 pounds
slaughter steers 33 25, four
loads 1325 - 1448 lb. weights
33.00. Early bulk high
choice and prime steers 29 -
50.-32.50 late bulk 1050-1450
lb. weights 29 00-32.50,
Good and choice vealers
30 00-34 00, standard 23.00 -
29-00.
Few loads good and mixed
good and choice 525-650 lb.
stock steers 27.25 28.00, load
medium and good 600 pound
weights 25.50. Few loads of
choice around 1050 lb. feed
ing steers 25.75-26 75, these
showing considerable evi
dence of grain feeding.
Lancaster Farming
Advertising Pays
New HdH^nd
Steers Barely-Steady
Slaughter steers continued low good 22-26 so
steady to slightly lower this 18-22.
week at New Holland. Cows The March 30 Sj.
sold steady and bulls were sale had receipts
1 lower, Vealers were 50 to cows, 20 bulls anj
1 lower on 220 head. -ers. The market *
With receipts of cattle at to
1308 head, several lots of. vr
sxja jsk js® js^sssT
sw?i«sa. , “ head Hl S;
Choice grade slaughter ste The March 28 i
ers weighing 000-1350 lbs. had receipts of -
few lots weighing 1,350 to The mule market'
1,450 also included at 27.25- ly steady on top
30. Good to low choice 27- ms. Draft horses i
2T.50. Standard 19-24 to strong.
Good and low choice heif Mules, pairs -
ers 672 to 995 lbs., 22-26.10, single - $l5O-300
Utility and standard 17-22. ses - $l4O-270 ’
Vealers, good and choice es - $2OO-300, g e i
grade 27-34. Choice and -140. Driving hd
prime 34.50-38 with a few 225, riding horse,
prime at 40. Standard and 30Q. Killers - io ‘
LESTER A. SING
IRRIGATION SYSTEMS
MECHANICAL TRANSPLANTS]
SPECIALIZING IN POWER SPRAYER S!
PHONE—OVerland 7-6712
Supplement
GRASS with G
1, ; i
. . • For More Milk All Su
Every dairyman likes the boost in milk
cows get from lush pasture. He knows it im
lars in the milk check . . . and at. lower feed
But dairymen know, too, that pasture cai
Supplementary dry feed . . . including gi am
for its counter laxative effect. This supplcnu
helps the cows hold body weight, keeps them i
to produce up to inherited capacity.
And pasture quality changes, too, as the
grosses. Grasses become dry and less palatable
less as the weather gets hotter. Supplemental';
monies even more important then.
We'll be glad to recommend a specific p>
to your herd, your pastures. The Beacon P a:
program has helped thousands of daiivnien
milk . . . profitably. Chances are it can 1'
The Beacon Miffing Co:
A Division of Spencer Kellogg & Sons. W
PHILADELPHIA & CARLISLE STS.. YOB*
Telephone: York 8-2341
BE AC
MYERS SPRAYERS
AND
m -0 ;' 1 1'