—Lancaster Farming, Saturday,. February 23, 1963
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Market News Reports Market News Reports
At Lancaster Yards Vintage Sate New Holland Auction
WEEKLY REVIEW
Thursday, February 21
CATTLE: 1725 For the Four
day Week. Compared with
23 x l3 head last week. Supply
includes 50 percent slaughter
steers and 35 percent feeder
steers. Tiadmg moderately ac
tive; feeder steers active for
Heights over 800 lbs early in
week Compared with last
weeks close, slaughter steers
steady to 50 higher Cows 50
higher. Bills steady. Feeder
steers 25 higher.
Slaughter steers - Choice
giade 950-1300 lbs 25 00-26 -
25, Several lots High Choice
with few Prime 90 0-1194
lbs 20 50-27 00, Good to low
Choice 23 25-25 00, Standard
21 50-23 00
Few Choice grade Heifers
910-1030 lbs 22 50-24 50
Cows Cutter and Utility
14.73-17 00. Canner and low
Cutter 13 00-14 75, Shelly ean
ner down to 11.00
Bulls Utility and Commer
cial 19 50-22 50, Good gtade
22.00-25 00.
Feeder steers Good and
Choice 800-1145 lbs 23 00-
25 50, Good and Choice 000-
800 lbs 24 00-20 75, Good and
Choice 411-000 lbs. 20 00-28 -
25
CALVES 500 Compared
with 480 head last week Trad
ing moderately active Vealers
steady.
Good and Choice vealers
32 00-38 00, Choice" and Prime
38 00-42 00, few to 43 00,
Standard and low Good 27 00-
32 00, Utility 21 00-27 00.
Whenever corn growers gather and discuss
HIGH CAPACITY
HYBRIDS
the talk almost always turns to
FUNK’S-G!
In 1963..p1ant the hybrids with
MORE CAPACITY TO PRODUCE
I HYBRID
HOGS 1317. Compared with
1228 head last week. Trading
slow. Barrows and gilts 25-50
lower. Sows steady.
U.S 1-2 190-230 lb. barrows
and gilts 16 75-17.50, No. 1
190-230 lbs. 17.50-18.00, 1-3
190-240 lbs. 16.25-16.75, 2-3
240-260 lbs. 15 25-16 25.
Sows - US. 1-3 300-450 lbs.
16 25-16.75, 450-600 lbs. 10.-
00-11 50.
SHEEP - 124 Compared with
139 head -last week. Wooled
slaughter lambs steady. Few
lots Choice 70-100 lb. wooled
slaughter lambs 22 00-23.25,
Good grade 18.00-22.00, Few
lots Choice shorn slaughter
lambs carrying No 1 plets and
■weighing 80 lbs 22 00-22 50.
Chicago Cattle
■Wednesday, Feb. 20
Cattle 9,500; calves none
Tiading on slaughter steers
was slow and steady to 50 low
er, best action on yearling
steers 1,100 pounds and down,
these about steady. Heifers
fairly active, mostly steady.
Cows steady to 50 higher,
bulls steady
Loadlots high choice and
prime 1,100 - 1,350 pound
steers 25 00-27 75 including a
lour load string around 1.250
pounds 25.75 and a load pame
1,350 pounds at 25 75 A num
ber of loads prime 1,150-1,350
pounds 25.50, tew loads high
choice and prime 1,375-1,425
pounds 24.25-25 50 Load,
prime 1,400 pounds 25 00
See Your Hoffman Seed Man or
Phone Landisyille 898-3421
A. H. HOFFMAN
SEEDS, INC.
, Landisville, Pa. -
Tuesday Feb. 10
'CATTLE: 612. Supply incl
udes 30 percent cows. Choice
grade slaughter steers weigh
ing under 1150 lbs 25-50 high
er, all others 50-1.00 lower
with most decline on weights
over 1200 lbs. Cutter and Util
its cows fully steady. Canner
50-75 higher. Bulls steady.
Choice 950-1350 lbs. slaugh
ter steers 24 75-26.60, few to
26 85, Choice 1300-1450 lbs.
23 00-25.00, Good to low Cho
ice 23.00-24.75, Standard 21.-
00-23.00.
Pew Choice 770-9 55 lb. Hei
fers 23.85-24.75.
-Cutter ajid Utility cows 14.-
25-16.50, Canner and low Cut
ter 13.50-14.75, Utility and
commercial bulls 1D.50-22.85.
Lot Good grade 895 lb.
Feeder steers 23.85.
CALVES: 361. Vealers 1 00-
3 00 lower. Good and Choice
28 00-34.00, Choice and Prime
34 00-41.00, Standard and low
Good 25 00-28 00, Utility 20.-
00-25 00.
HOGS- 152. Barrows and
gilts steady to 50 lower.
Pew lots U S No. 1,211-231
lbs 16 85-17 35,-1-3
lbs 16 25-16 60, Lot 2-3 233
lbs 15.75, 2 lots No. 2 250-
252 lbs 15 75-15 85.
Few U S 1-3 405-555 lb.
Sows 13.00-14.00.
SHEEP 16 Not enough on
sale to establish a market.
commercial bulls 18 00-20 00.
Sheep - 800. Rather slow
Bulk of the choice 900-1,150 Slaughter lambs steady to
pounds 23.75-24 75; load high weak; slaughter ewes steady,
choice to mostly prime at 1,000 Couple loads 90-180 pound
pounds 25 75. Choice 1,150- choice wooled slaughter lambs
1,300 pounds _ 23.50-24 50, 19 including deck of 108 lb
scattered' loads ’'choice 1,,300-, ted westerns Good and cnoiee
1,450 pounds 33" 00-23 75. 80-100 .pounds 17 58-18 ->0
Good 900-1,300 pounds 22 GO
-23 50; lew standard 19 GO
-21 00.
Choice 850-1,050 pound heif- grade, 190-220 pound-butchers
eis 23 50-24 50, seveial loads 15 50-16 00 One-three 190-
faigh choice and pnme 900- 225 pound 15-15 75. 220-260
1,025 pounds 25 00 Gool 22- pounds 14 75-15 50 Two-tlnee
00-23 25 250-290 pounds 14 25-14 75.
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Thursday,»February 21
Cattle: 1045. Compared with
a week ago slaughter steers
steady to 50 lower. Most de
cline on weights over 1,250 lbs.
Utility cows about steady, oan
ner and cutter 50 lower. Bulls
about steady.
High choice and prime 900-
*l,OOO pound slaughter steers
26.00-26.85; 1,300-1,400 lbs.
24.76-25.60. Choice 950-1,350
pound 24.75-26.00-. Good and
low choice 22.75-25.00; Stan
dard 20-23.
Cutter and utility cows 14.-
50-16.50, few to 17. Canner
and low cutter 13.00-14.50,
with shelly canner 11.00-13.-
00.
Utility and commercial bulls
20 00-22 50; good 22.00-24.00.
Medium and good 665-850
pounds feeder steers 20.85-
23.85. Two lots good 585-615
pounds 23.35-24 25. Lot medi
um and common 706 pound
hojstein feeders 18.25.
Calves 307. Vealers steady.
39 PO. Choice and prune 39 00-
Good and choice vealers 34.C0-43
43 00, few to 45 50.
New Holland reported re
ceipts of 103 cows, five stock
bulls and five stock heifers
at the -February 20 auction of
dairy cattle The market was
Utility and'commercial cows
14.25-16 50. Canner and cutt-
er 12 00-14.25
Hogs, 6,000 fairly active.
Butcbeis uneven about steady.
Sows steady., One a,nd two
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gain." Mil
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•■cvssss
steady to" weak, _
Fresh Holstein cows brought
$275-400; Guernseys $l3O-220,
and other breeds $175-225.
The Feb. 18 sale of horses,
pomes and mules had 250 head
on sale. The trend was steady.
Mare ponies brought $45-
110 and geldings were $3O-75.
Mules by the pair brought
$3OO-500; riding horses $llO
- and driving horses $llO
- Killers were 7 to 7V»
cents.
At the Feb. 18 hog sale
512 head sold* on a steady to
weak market. Retail hogs to lo
cal butchers brought 17 to 18
while number 1-3 to the pack
ers were 16-17. Heavy fat hogs
over 240 pounds brought la
-16.
The 89 calves at the Feb. 18
sale sold steady.
Choice and prime were SB
-42; good and low choice 33-
36; standard 26-33, and com
mon were 18-26.
Six sheets for each bed in
the house isa satisfactory sup
ply, says Mrs. Ceche P. Smden,
Penn State home management
extension specialist This allows
for two sheets in use, two in
the laundry, and two on reser
ve Three sheets for each ted
is a minimum. Buying two
sheets a year for each bed
keeps the supply plentiful.
Utility and
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