Weekly Broiler Report
Placements In Commonwealth
Decline
Placements of broiler chicks
in the Keystone State by
hatcherymen during the week
ending November 21, totaled
844,000 according to the Penn
sylvania Crop Repoitmg Sei
vice. This was a decrease of 14
percent from the previous week
but an increase of 5 percent
from a year ago The 10-week
total was 4 percent above the
comparable period a year ago
Settings for broiler chicks,
totaling 1,230,000 eggs, were
3 percent below the previous
week and 7 percent below a
year earlier. The 3-week total
was 6 percent below last year
Inshipments of broiler-type
chicks the past 10 weeks to
taled 385,000 or 56 percent
below the comparable period
Purina’s New “Built-To-Fit”
Special Steer Fatenas
Bere is just one of nearly 300 test pens of cattle used to develop the
new Special Steer Fatenas at Purina’s Research Farm. Four- years of
testing involved more than 2500 test cattle.
Each of these new cattle supplements is formulated for- a specific
kind of grain and roughage. Even the size of your cattle is consider
ed in selecting the right one for you to feed!
Results? These new Special Steer Fatenas have set all-time Purina
performance records in 4 years of tests. For example, the new
Steer Fatena “Built-to-Fit’’ com or milo rations, fed with poor
quality roughages, produced 6.4% faster gains on 10.7 % less feed!
These extra results were worth $11.40 more per steer .on a =s2o cattle
market with 700 lb. yearlings fed 120 days!
The new Steer Fatena “Built-to-Fit” barley rations produced equally
high results at a lower feed cost than ever before!
Whether you bunk-feed or self-feed your cattle, there’s a new
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efficiency!
John J. Hess, II
Paradise
John B. Kurtz
Cedar Lane
James High
Gordonville
John il Kurtz
EpJirata
in 1963. Outshipments of 1,-
402.000 were down 12 percent
Placements in the 22 major
producing states, totaling 38,-
005.000 chicks, weie about the
same as the previous week and
a year ago The 10-week total
was 3 percent above last year
Settings of 53,347,000 eggs in
creased 1 percent liom the
pievious week but was about
the same as a year ago The 3-
week total was 1 percent below
a year ago.
Eastern Pa. and N. J,
Supplies of light type hens
decreased in N J and bai ely
adequate in Eastern Pa. Offer
ings ample and movement con
tinues relatively heavy De
mand good although some pro
cessors re-scheduling due to
Thanksgiving holiday. Offer
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Here’s News For Cattle Feeders!
Built-to-Fit
your groin
Ira B.' Landis
Valley Koad, .Lancaster
Wenger's Feed Mill, Inc.
Rheems
Whiteside & Weicksel
, r, Itirkwood -
S» H. Hie stand & Co.
Salunga
your cattle . . .
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• Delmarvo
Broiler and fryer live prices
advanced slow with a good de
mand for moderate auction
offerings. Highest prices were
paid for lots with extended
pick-up dates.
Ready-to-cook demand fair
to good on prior commitments
New business slowly develop
ing foi next week at competi
tive puces with many buyers
using a wait-and-see attitude
Delivered puces ranged fiom
Vz cent higher to mostly un
changed.
Estimated slaughter foi Fn
day and Satuiday, 774,000 head
compared to 496,000 head last
weekend. Puces paid and ic
poited pui chases for the 48-
hour period ending 10 30 »m
Friday, bi oilers and fiyeis,
14 5-15 6; 1,148,700 head, in
cluding 419,200 head purchased
of 481,000 head offered at
Eastern Poultry Gioweis Ex
change Wednesday
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 28, 1964
Weekly New York Egg Mkt.
From Monday, November 23rd to Friday, November 27th
Mon. Tues. Wed. Thur. Frl.
WHITE
Ex Fey. Hywts.
Fey. Hywts.
Fey Med
No. 1 Med.
Pullets
36-36‘/ 2
32
26
25 1 2
22 l/ 2
Peewees
BROWN
Ex. Fey Hywts
Fey Hywts.
Fey. Med.
Pullets
Peewees
36’ 2 37
35
27'' 2
23 V 2
19
MIXED
Fey. Hywts. 32 32 32
No. 1 Med. 25V 2 25 25
Standards 31 30-31 30-31
Checks 25 25 25
TREND; Market still very irregular both on demand and
supply with offerings generally ample for all needs.
Copyrighted 1964 By Urner-Barry Co.
Area Holsteins Set by H. E. & Maybelle Kettering,
New Production Levels Llt “ z ’ L ls ’?*
milk and 627 lbs. of butterfat
The Holstein- Friesian Asso- 111 T 3 2 ,7 days,
ciation of America recently re- Ra °- Apple Butter Girl
ported that the cows in county £629675, a fi^e 'y® ai ’'®ld, owned
herds had new, officially rec- by Verno ” * u ® b £ RarkfiS :
ognized milk and butterfat rec- bur & Produced 15,228 lbs. of
ords; milk and 664 lbs. of butterfat
Spring Lawn Triumph Wbva- in 279 days,
tion 4295220, a six-year-old. Valley Bun Lad Irene 46-
owned by Jay C. Garber, Lan- four-vear-old owned
caster, produced 19,839 lbs. of a tour yeal 01d * ownea
milk and 714 lbs. of butterfat by Arthur D. & Mary K. Wen-
in 365 days. ger, Manheim, produced 20,-
Elroc Patsy Follow On 39- 000 lbs, of milk and. 647 lbs.
21485, a nine-year-old, ownedof butterfat in 305 days.
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