o—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, November 6, 1965
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Pennsylvania Flying Farmers...
A two-day I-ndles Flight Ruth Wilson; Mrs. Betty
Sdiool for tln* wives of Fly- Whittle, wife of Wilson 'Whit
lug Farmers was held on Oc- tie. Ken nett Square, Mrs. Bl
toher i 1:! ami 2 1 at (he Her- «le Wyler, wife of Boy Bly
-he> Airport. The school was ler. Valley View; Mrs. Elca
-ponsored h> the rennsylvaii- t'<> r Rothenherger, wife of
la KlUng Farmers and Inter- Stanley Rothenherger. Lnns-
Mrs Menrv I Ruth) Wilson of dale. Mrs. Hetty Jean Roth-
Xottingliaui.' Pa, It ineluded onberßer. wife of Maynard
e round school, with naviga- Rothenherger. Lonsdale R 2;
lion and radio training, and an< l Kl sie Jones, wife of
flight Instruction in the air. Marshall Jones. W esttown.
Those attending were Mrs. national Flying Farmer Queen,
• Chicago
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mostly steadv. Cows 50-75 low
er and bulls steady In the
carlot dressed beef trade, steer
and heifer beef steadv to 50
lower, cow’ beef 50-1 00 lower.
The difference in local re
ceipts from week ago was lar
gely feeder cattle as the supply
of slaughter steers and heifers
little changed from a week
ago Supply 75 80 percent
slaughter steei s, around 15
peicent heifers, balance cows
Pnme made up an estimated
11 percent of the steer run
W'lth Choice aiound 75 percent,
balance mostly Good, this lit
tle changed fiom last week and
a yeai ago 520 steei s weighed
mostly 900 1350 lbs with the
aveiage weight expected to be
near last weeks 1136 lb avei
age which was the heaviest in
si\ weeks and compaied with
1144 lbs a veai ago Foi the
month of Octobei the aveiage
weight of steeis was 1125 lbs
this the lightest foi any month
in thiee yeais Heifei supply
mostly High Good to High
Choice with ovei 70 peicent
Choice md the aveiage weight
of heifeis expected to be the
heaviest since Apnl Eaily
indications aie the slaughter
undei fedeial inspection this
week will be above last weeks
570,000 head and will be the
second largest on iccoid
SLAUGHTER STEERS
Aiound thaty loads Pnme
12001435 lbs 28 50 28 75, four
loads 1300 1435 lbs 28 75, High
Choice and Pnme 1150-1400
lbs 27 50 28 25, Choice 1100-
1375 lbs 26 50 27 50, Choice
1000 1100 lbs 26 00-27 00, sev-
eial loads High Choice and
Pnme 1050-1150 lbs 26 75-27-
50, Choice 900100 lbs 25 50
26 50, load Commeicial and
Choice 1450 lbs 26 75, Mixed
Good and Choice 900 1300 lbs
25 25 26 25, Good 24 25 25 50,
Standard and Low Good 22 GO
-24 50
SLAUGHTER HEIFERS
High Choice and Pnme 900-
1050 lbs 25 25 25 50 Aiound
half dozen loads at 25 50,
Choice 800-1050 lbs 24 25 25 25,
Mixed Good and Choice 750
1000 lbs 23 50-24 00, Good 21-
50 23 50. Standard and Low
Good 20 50-2150
COWS Utility and Comm
eicial 13 00-14 00, High Yield
ing Commeicial and Standaid
14 00 15 00, Cannei and Cuttei
10 50 13 25
FEEDERS Two loads Choice
625 lb steei s 25 25, load Mixed
Good and Choice 650 lbs 24 75,
couple loads Standard and
Good 600-750 lbs 22 50 23 00
# 3 County Agents
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• Farm Prices
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er than a month earlier and
nine cents above the October
19 04 price.
Hog prices turned upward
alter a slight decline in Sep
tember The mid-October quo
tation of $23 80 was up 70
tents irom the previous
month, and $6 90 higher than
a year earlier It was the high
est October average in 17
years
Other livestock prices show
ed only minor changes. Crop
prices, too, showed little
change although the price of
coin diopped 10 cents to $1 30
a bushel
Broilers averaged half-a
cent pei pound below Sep
tember prices while eggsweie
unchanged at 39 cents a doz-
On a national basis aver
age prices leceived by faim
eis diopped 1 percent from a
month eailiei, while average
puces paid for commodities
and set vices advanced 1 per
cent
Meat Inspected
If all of the meat the U. S.
Depaitment of Agriculture in
spected foi wholesomeness last
year weie put together, it
would fill almost a million re
ft igeiated fi eight cars. Put
end to end, these cais would
leach fiom New York to San
Fiancisco three times. In all,
29 billion pounds of led meat
were inspected Of this, 20 bil
lion pounds were inspected
again as they went into irank
fuiters, sausages, frozen meat
dinners, and canned meat pro
ducts
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Red Meal Production
Down For 6th Month
In Pennsylvania -
Red meat production in the
state declined In September,
the sixth consecutive month
in which output was lower
than In the corresponding
month of 1901, according to
the Pennsylvania Crop Re
porting Service. 1
The September total, 84.-
384,000 pounds, was S per
cent higher than in the previ
ous mouth, but 4 percent less
than in September last year.
Pork production was up 3 per
cent trom a year earlier, the
only category to show an in
crease. Beet was down 9 per
cent; veal down 5 percent,
and lamb and mutton down
9 percent.
The last increase in red
meat production in Pennsyl
vania was recorded last March
when the total was 13 percent
higher than in March 1904.
Since the first of the year,
meat production in Pennsvyl
vania totaled approximately 6
percent less than in the first
nine months last year.
January-September meat
production in the United
States totaled 22,750 million
pounds. 2 percent less than
in the corresponding period
last year.
• Vintage
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2 3 85, 200 to 220 lbs , 25 85,
220 to 240 lbs , 25 50 to 26 -
85, 240 and up, 23 00 to 25-
60 Sows, 18 00 to 20 50.
SPKCIAt, FERDKR SALK
October 29, 19fi5
635 head Charolais Calves
29 50 to SI 50; Yearling
Chaiolais 450 to 650 lbs , 26.-
50 to 29 50, Choice Fancy
Angus. 480 to 590 lbs , 26 00
to 28 00, Choice Heretord,
764 to 1025 lbs 24 10 to 25 -
50, Heietord and Angus, 775
to 984 lbs, 23.25 to 24.75,
Good Hereford and Angus,
710 to 826 I'bs , 22 75 to 23.-
85, Medium and Good Here-
lord and Angus, 21 85 to 23 -
00, Plain and Medium steers,
all weights, 17 25 to 21.25.
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