Weekly Broiler Report
Chicks placed in Pennsyl
vania for commercial broiler
pi eduction during the week
totaled 913,000 according to
'the Pennsylvania Crop Report-
Service. This was an in
cicase of 19 per cent over the
p!evious week and 28 per cent
•Ihove a year earlier.
The 10-week total was 1 per
cent below last year. Eggs set
j ol commercial broiler produc
ts totaled 1,071,000, 8 per
cent over a week earlier but
25 per cent below a year ago
The 3-week total was down 11
per cent from last year.
Inshipments of broiler-type
chicks for the past 10-weeks
totaled 839,000 or 71 per cent
above last year. Outshipments
ol 1,290,000 were down 36 per
cent.
Settings in the 22 major pro
ducing states were down 1 per
cent from a week earlier but
lemained about the same as a
\ear ago. The 3-week total was
2 per cent above the compar
able period last year.
Placements dropped 1 per
cent from a week earlier but
u ere 1 per cent above a year
ago. The 10-week total was
down 1 per cent from last year.
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Dairymen everywhere
are getting more
with Dairy Feed
Pastures Are Drying Up!
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Morgantown Feed & Groin
Stevens & Morgantown
Millport Roller Mills
Millport
S. H. Hiestond & Co., Inc.
Salunga
Fogelsvillc, Pa, Auction
Sale of 6/23/64
(Prices for Dock Weights, f
per lb. except where noted)
HENS, Light Type 7%-10%
M 8-9; Heavy Type 8%-19 M
13-17; Pullets 15-29 M 23-27:
Roasters 10 26 M 18-24>/2,
Ducks 22-24; Turkeys,* Toms
IBV2-22V2; Hens 16V2-29 M 18-
22; Rabbits 16-32 M 24-30,
Guineas 87%; Pigeons (per
pair) 40-72 Va M 65-70, Jumbo
Squab 80, Total Coops Sold.
695.
Ready to Cook Broilers
& Fryers
Carlot inquiry good at Phila
delphia as lequuements were
unfilled in several instances.
Trading unaggressive at New
York & Boston due partly to
buyer reluctance towards new
prices. Country offeungs light.
Pool trucklots & special
marks were purchases at 25-31
mostly 26-28 1 /2<". Distributive
demand fairly good at Phila ,
fair at other points. Supplies
irregular & ranged ample to
short of needs Weights over
s' in very light supply.
Farm Women 3
Program Is
Safe At Home
“Safety at Home” was the
theme of the recent meeting
of Farm Women Society 3 in
the home of Mrs Clarence
Stauffer, Ephrata HI, north of
Lincoln. W. U. Fassnacht, rep-
I For Sale: ALFALFA - STRAW |
$ Approximately 1,000 bales of excellent J
■K second cutting alfalfa sprayed conditioned $
* foaled and loaded on your truck at the field when ready. *
J Also straw from Pennoll Wheat *
J baled and loaded on your truck at the field. *
* 5
* Conestoga Memorial Park t
$ Off the New Danville Pike, Lancaster R 6 J
i Phone 393-1594 from 9 to 5 *
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Passmore Supply Co.
Cochranville, Pa.
• Delmorvo
Prices Advance
On Fair Demand
Live broiler prices in Del
marva advanced appioximately
1/5 cent during the 24 hour
peuod ending 10.30 Friday
morning
Moderate auction offerings
met a fair buying interest De
mand for ready to cook im
pioved and fair as additional
supplies sought for early week
deliveiy at major metiopohtan
centeis
Estimates slaughter for the
weekend by eastern shore pro
cessors was 793,100 head com
pared to the 832,600 head last
weekend
Prices ranged 16 8 to 17 8 at
farms on reported purchases of
909,100 head including 448,100
head offeied and sold at Thurs
day’s sale at the Eastern Shore
Poultry Growers Exchange
Thirty-seven per cent of the
auction sales were at 17 to
17 4
The Delmarva broiler-feed
ratio foi the week ending June
19 was up two points from
the previous week at 3 2
Broilers averaged 15 87 per
pound and mash cost the
grower $lOO 49 per ton.
resenting the Insurance Infor
mation office of Pennsylvania,
spoke on the theme, “Home Is
Where the Hazards Are.”
Devotions were led by the
hostess and her daughter, Miss
Nan Stauffer. Mystery sisters
were revealed and new ones
selected.
Three members were grad-
milk
Grubb Supply Co.
Elizabethtown
Kirkwood Feed & Groin
Kirkwood
H. M. Stauffer & Sons, Inc.
Leola and Witmer
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 27, 1964—3
Weekly New York Egg Mkt.
From Monday, June 22nd to Friday, June 26th
Mon.
WHITE
Fey Hywts
Fey Hywts
Fey Med
No 1 Med
Pullets
Peewees
334
314
25
24'4
184
14
BROWN
Fey Hywts
Fey. Hywts
Fey Med
Pullets
Peewees
38
36
284
184
14
MIXED
Fcy Hywts
No 1 Med,
Pullets
Standards
Checks
31% 31%
24% 24*2
0 0
29% 28 29
23%-24 23%-24
TREND Market showing a good balance between supply
and demand except on top brown, thesd aie weaker under an
unsettled market in New England
Copyrighted 1964 By Urner-Barry Co.
uates of Ephrata High School to plan the refreshment stand
and were given gifts from the at Ephrata Fair and the 1965
society. year book and piogram.
During the business session, Preliminary plans were made
under the chairmanship of the for a bus trip to Atlantic City
president, Mrs. Harry Usner, on August 22 Mr. Stauffer
donations were voted to two showed pictures taken on a re
chanties A gift of $5 was giv- cent bus tup by the Society
en for the Migrant Workers’ to the New York World’s Fair,
picnic, and $5O was voted for The July meeting will be
the Lancaster Child Develop- the annual family picnic held
ment Center. in Walters’ Meadow near Hope-
Committees were appointed land, Sunday, July 19.
Tues.
Wed
334
31*2
244-25
244
184
14
334
314
25
244
184
14
38
36
254
184
14
38
36
254
184
14
314
244
Thurs.
Fri.
34 34
32 324
26 26
254 25%
184-19 18V 2 -I9
14 14
38 35-35%
36 34
26 26
184-19 18%-19
14 14
32 32%
25% 25%
0 0
28%-29% 29%-30
23%-24 23%-24