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Ph. 397-3539
Grade No
Fancy 8
Choice 148
Good 151
Medium 91
TOTAL 398
Choice
Good
Medium 19 7,595
Common 4 1,122
TOTAL 129 53,672
Choice
Good
Medium
TOTAL
GRAND
Prime 16
Choice 292
Good 624
Standard 1,059
Utility 5,782
Hols Bulls 4,431
Hols. Hfrs 2,006
Farm 1,252
TOTAL 15,462 1,565,635
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6th Annual Grading Summary
The following information
was compiled to summarize
the livestock grading
program of the Bureau of
Markets This is the 6th
Feeder Cattle
Steers
Total Wt Av.Wt
3,990 499
69,555 470
66,570 441
43,904 482
184,019 462
Bulls
17,045
27,910
Heifers
85 39,055
257 104,610
61 24,493
404 168,158
931 405,849
Veal Calves
3,145
56,875
114.950
169,105
571,350
452.950
197,260
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Heavy Blue
Heavy Blue
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Heavy Blue Buck
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Heavy Blue Buck
Light Blue
Light Blue Buck
Red
Red
449
410
400
280
416
(over weight)
Red Buck
Red Buck
(over weight)
Total
454
407
401
416
436
Yearlings
Ewes
Total
110
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 3,1973 —
annual report and is a total of
all livestock graded by the
Livestock and Dairy Section
in 1972
Market Lambs
5879
123
1232
106
1356
138
1085
13
10,685
Sheep
Lambs
1,375
358
647
451
80
89
11
3,011
Choice
Choice Bucks
Good
Good Bucks
Utility
Utility Bucks
Cull
TOTAL
543,175
14,515
117,327
12,755
110,636
11,566
93,922
483
67,271
4
749
1,564
973,264
45
497
542
4,662
59,947
64,609
117,406
33,772
44,588
34,058
4,202
5,544
482
240,052
Feeders
Blue
Buck & Tail
Red
Red Buck
2
1918
Red 516
Buck & Tail 267
Utility 105
Total 3183
Feeders
Special Sales
Feeder Pigs
US No 1-2 69
US No 2 1.589
US No 3 4,147
U S Utility 1,602
61
7,468
US Cull
Total
Zero-till Meet
Attended by 160
Some 160 farmers turned out
for a meeting on zero till methods
Tuesday at the Farm and Home
Center The meeting was spon
sored jointly by nine area John
Deere dealers along with the
local Ortho representative
The meeting lasted from 10 00
a.m until 2:30 pm, with the
audience divided into two groups
One group heard all about zero
till methods in the morning while
the other group was talking about
equipment In the afternoon, the
two groups switched
Also on display was the John
Deere Generation II caravan
truck, with cutaway samples of
tractor engines and other tractor
parts
Dealers participating were
Landis Brothers, Lancaster;
ABC Groff, New Holland,
Wenger Implement, Quarryville,
Clair D Worley, York; Edwards
and Cox, Oxford; Evergreen
Tractor Co., Lebanon; M.A
Yearsley and Son, West Chester;
Edwin Hurst, Mohnton, and
Shotzberger’s, Elm.
27
924
1180
95 2
120 3
816
83 8
866
1208
89 8
120 3
91 1
103 6
120 6
1192
70 o
69 3
70 7
713
61 0
69 7