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Brotter- Placements Decline
9 Percent
Placements of broiler chicks
in the Keystone State during
the week ending February 13
totaled 931,000 according to
the Pennsylvania Crop Report
ing Service. The placements
declined 9 percent from the
previous week but advanced
5 percent from a year ago.
Settings for broiler chicks to
taling 1,301,000 were about the
same as the previous week but
decreased 6 percent from a
year earlier. The current 3-
week total of eggs set de
creased 3 percent from last
year, Inshipments of broiler
type chicks during the past 10
weeks totaled 396,000 or 10
percent below the comparable
period in 1963-64. Outship
ments (2,278,000) were about
22 percent above the compar
able period a year earlier.
Placements in the 22 major
producing states totaling 43,-
493,000 chicks increased 1 per
cent from the previous week
and 8 percent from a year ear
lier. The 10-week total in
creased 5 percent from last
year. Settings of 59,148,000 ad
vanced 1 percent from the
previous week and 2 percent
from a year ago. The 3-week
total increased 4 percent from
a year ago.
Eastern Pa. & N.J.
Prices unchanged to as much
as 1* higher for light type
hens. Demand fair with offer
ings no more than adequate.
Some processing ' plants oper
ating on reduced dressing
schedules. Supplies of heavy
type hens barely adequate De
mand fair The highest re
ported price reflects movement
of a flock averaging 9 lbs.
few lots of 5-6 lb hens moved
off farms at SVz-G? Prices paid
at farms- Light type hens 4Vz
7(* mostly SVa-ftf; heavy type
hens mostly 192 CK.
Fogelsville
(Prices for dock weights,
cents per lb. except where
noted.)
Hens, light type SVa-VVa, 6;
hens, heavy type 12-20Vz, 15-19,
Pullets 18-19, 25-29; Roasters
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late sales High Choice and
Prime 1100-1400 lbs. 24 50-25-
25, including few loads 1100-
1130 lbs 25 00-25 25, Choice
1000-1400 lbs. 23 25-24 50, up to
25 00 early in the week, couple
loads High Choice and Prime
1500-1525 lbs. 23 50-24.00, load
lots Mixed Good and Choice
900-1350 lbs 22.50-23 25, Good
20 00-22 50, Standard and Low
Good 17.50-20.00, including
Holsteins 17 50-19 25, Mixed
Utility and Standard 16.00-
17.50.
Slaughter heifers; Late sales
High Choice and Prime 950-
1025 lbs. 23 25-23.50, earlier
High Choice and Prime 950-
105 lbs. 23.75-2410, part load
1080 lbs. 24 25. Late sales
Choice 800-1100 lbs. 22.00-23 25.
Good 19 00-21.50.
Cows Utility and Commer
cial 12.50-14 00, Canner and
Cutter 11.00-13 00.
Bulls Cutter to Commercial
16 00-19 00, Fat Commercial
14 00-15 00.
The "Blackbird Battle"
Rages As Damages And
Bird Numbers Mount
The search for an effective
way of controlling the dam
age to field crops by the na
tion’s 225 million blackbirds
is a continuing battle with'no link in the cycle “When 20-
easy solution according to J. million birds roost on ten
L. Seubert, chief of the animal aci es, the opportunities for
depredation section of the U. control are mcieased.” He
S. Department of Interior, said that if chemostenlents
Speaking at a wildlands ecol- can be found that can be
ogy session, he outlined con- spiayed on the i costing area
tiol methods under study and so that the chemicals are ab
reported on the apparent fail- sorbed through the birds’ feet
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eport
orva
Delmarva broiler and fryer
live prices advanced sharply
with a good demand for mod
erately heavy auction offer
ings, Extension of pickup
dates was a factor in stimu
lating demand.
Ready-to-cook demand was
spotty, ranging from slight to
fair. Sizes remained light.
Delivered prices ranged 1
cent higher on extra premium
quality, though generally un
changed
Estimated slaughter for Fri
day and Saturday 788,000
head, compared with 772,000
head last weekend.
Prices paid and reported
purchases for the 24-hour
period ending 10-30 a.m. Fri
day: broilers and fryers, 151-
16 6; 976,700 head, including
476,900 head offered and sold
at Eastern Poultry Growers
Exchange, Thursday.
Thirty-five percent of the
offerings brought 15.5-15.9.
The Delmarva broiler-feed
ratio for the week ending
2/12/65 was 3.1, down 1 point
from the preceding week. The
average mash cost was $102,34,
and the average broiler price
was 15 97 cents per pound
ures and successes of many
of them Included in USDil’s
arsenal of control methods
are such things as decoy traps,
commercial pesticides, anti
metabolites, biological control
methods, and chemostenlants.
Seubert said that in study
ing blackbird behavior, re
searchers found that the es
timated 225 million blackbirds
in the United States roost in
only 173 well-defined areas. He
described this as the weak
Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, February 20,1965 —3
Weekly New York Egg Mkt.
From Monday, February 15th to Friday, February 19th
WHITE
Ex. Fey. Hywts 32
Fey. Hywts. 31-31%
Fey Med 29
No. 1 Med. 27%
26
22
Pullets
Peewees
BROWN
Ex Fey. Hywts 34
Fey Hywts 31 %
Fey. Med. 29
Pullets 27
Peewees 22
MIXED
Fey. Hywts. 31-31%
Standards 28%
Checks 22
TREND: Market continues to show weaknesses in top
whites, and this has forced a lower pnee structure on nearly
all grades.
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to the point where they do have suggested total anmhila
not produce young the follow- tion of the birds until they
ing spring, the corn damage realize the magnitude of the
problem in Delaware would problem. What do you do with/
be solved without killing a 225 million blackbirds?
lot of birds. Researchers are Seubert said research on
still looking for the right agri-nomic practices is continu
ehemical. One that looks par- ing. Evaluation of chemical
ticulaily effective is a com- repellents, scare devices, and
mercial maaking dye called varietal resistance of certain
Sudan Black. crops indicate that all have
Seubeit said many people (Contmued on Page 10)
plagued by blackbird damage
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