Special
AbindgonfvA
Monday, October 22
1,813 Head Sold
Steers
Choice and Fancy: 300 - 400
pounds 60.00 - 69.00; 405 - 500 58.50
- 66.50; 505 - 600 54.00 - 55.50.
Good; 300 - 400 pounds 60.50 -
68.00; 405 - 500 57.50 - 65.00; 505 -
600 52.00 - 54.25.
Medium: 300 - 400 pounds 54.50 -
59.00; 405 - 500 46.00 - 52.50; 505 -
600 47.00 - 48.50.
Heifers
Choice and Fancy; 300 - 400
pounds 46.50 - 48.00; 405 - 500 45.00
- 50.50; 505 - 600 48.75 - 52.75.
Good: 300 - 400 pounds 44.00 -
48.00; 405 - 500 44.50 - 51.75; 505 -
600 48.00 - 49.00.
Medium: 300 - 400 pounds 44.00 -
45.00; 405 - 500 43.50 - 45.00; 505 -
600 44.00 - 45.25.
Abingdon, VA
Tuesday, October 23
1,463 Head Sold
Steers
Choice and Fancy; 300 - 400
pounds 60.50 - 65.50; 405 - 500 53.75
- 60.00; 505 - 600 48.00 • 53.00.
Good: 300 - 400 pounds 57.00 -
66.00; 405 - 500 53.00 - 60.50; 505 -
600 51.75 - 54.25.
Medium; 300 - 400 pounds 52.00 -
64.50; 405 - 500 43.75 - 53.75; 505 -
600 47.75 - 52.00.
Feeder Sale
Heifers
Choice and Fancy: 300 - 400
pounds 45.25 - 49.75; 405 - 500 42.00
- 48.00; 505 - 600 41.25 - 42.50.
Good: 300 - 400 pounds 44.50 -
47.50; 405 - 500 42.00 - 44.00 ; 505 -
600 40.00 - 41.50.
Medium: 300 - 400 pounds 41.75 -
44,75; 405 - 500 -38.50 - 39.50 ; 505 -
600 40.50 - 42.25.
Harrisonburg, VA
Tuesday, October 23
1,543 Head Sold
Steers
Choice and Fancy: 600 - 700
pounds 52.00 - 54.75; 705 - 800 50.50
- 52.25 ; 805 - 1000 44.00 - 51.25.
Good; 500 - 700 pounds 51.00 -
57.00; 705 - 800 51.00 - 52.00; 805 -
1000 44.50 - 49.50.
Medium: 500- 700 pounds 47.50 -
54.75; 705 - 800 44.25 - 46.75.
Common: 500 -700 pounds 44.00
- 51.50.
Betting On Fish?
Bred for bravery and underfed
to ensure ferocity, Siamese fight
ing fish may lock jaws for min
utes at a time, writhing until one
breaks free and refuses further
combat. Though betting on the
fish is illegal in Thailand, side
wagers can total as much as $l5O
- half an unskilled laborer’s year
ly income.
Bedford, VA
Tuesday, October 23
420 Head Sold
Steers
Choice and Fancy: 500 - 700
pounds 50.00 - 54.25 ; 705 - 800 46.50
- 48.75; 805 - 1000 41.50 - 45.50.
Good: 500 - 700 pounds 49.25 -
52.75 : 705 - 800 47.00 - 49.25 ; 805 -
1000 39.50 - 46.00.
Medium; 500 - 700 pounds 44.00 -
49.50; 705 - 800 42.00 - 45.00; 805 -
1000 38.00 - 40.00.
Common: 500 -700 pounds 37.50
- 43.50 ; 705 - 800 37.00 - 38.00; 805 -
1000 33.75 - 35.25.
Short: 500 - 700 pounds 41.50 •
46.75. i.'iL. i'
Snacking In Style
Snack items shpuld be nutri
tious, since snacking Has become
a way of life for many U.S. fam
ilies. Miniature meat Halls will
fill a variety of snack needs. Com
bine 1 pound ground beef with 1
teaspoon salt and >4 teaspoon
pepper. Shape into balls using 1
tablespoon for each ball. Place in
shallow baking dish and bake at
325*F. for 15 to 20 minutes. For
fun eating, insert a pretzel stick
into each ball and serve with cat
sup or cocktail sauce.
Average Iceberg
The average iceberg that drifts
as far south as Newfoundland and
the Atlantic shipping lanes has a
volume of 5,000,000 cubic feet
and weighs 150,000 tons, com
pared with 50,000,000 cubic feet
and 1,500,000 tons when it was
glacier-born three years earlier.
This
is when
get that
good feeling
This is pay day.
This is when it all comes back.
The fertilizer. The seed. The interest. The
machinery. The thinking. The work.
With a profit, if all the inputs did their
jobs.
The seed is a key. Some hybrids have a
superior capacity to produce. To give
you more corn, from the same soil and
season.
Prof it- minded corn growers have learned
Funk's G-Hybrids can be depended
upon to do just that. To produce top
yields. Year after year. Dependably. In
good seasons and —like many years—
when conditions are tough‘at critical
times. .
Year after year, corn growers with
Funk's-G at work in their fields have
that good feeling.
That good feeling you get when you
have dependable hybrids, from de
pendable people. Funk's G-Hybrids.
A. H. HOFFMAN SEEDS, INC.
Landisville, Pennsylvania 17538
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•IKDBMCN TO THKWORLD
Wo An Proud To Bo A Part Of Amarican Agricu/tura
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 27,1973— fi
Manheim RD
Dies In Farm
An 82-year-old Manheim RD2
farmer was killed Thursday
morning when his tractor rolled
over him.
According to state police,
Jacob M. Dupler was pronounced
dead at the scene by deputy
coroner Dr. Charles A. Callis at
12:05 p.m.
Dupler’s body was reportedly
found by a neighbor, after Dupler
was apparently driving the
tractor near an embankment
when the wheels slipped on the
wet grass and the tractor upset.
Police estimated the accident
occurred about 10:30 a.m.,
although Dupler was not found
until some time later.
Bom in Conoy Twp., he was the
son of the late Henry C. and
Harriet Miller Dupler and was
married to the late Elsie Shenk
Dupler, who died in October,
1970.
He was a member of Rubl’s
United Methodist Church,
Manheim RD4.
He is survived by ths following
sons and daughters: Esther, wife
of George Halbleib,
Elizabethtown; Ruth, wife of
Mervin Shoemaker,
Elizabethtown; Leroy Dupler,
you
Funk's Is a Brand Kama:
Numbers Identify Vanatias
PUNK •■■OS
INTERNATIONAL* INC.
Intemitlonal Headquarters
Bloomington, Illinois 61701
Tha limitation of warranty
and remedy on tha tag
attachad to each big of Funk’s
G-Hybrid sold to a part of
tha (arms of sata tharaof.
2 Mon, 82,
Mishap
Annville; Walter Duple.
Harrisburg; Clyde Duple 1
Bainbridge; Anna Mae, wife <i
Charles Fackler Sr., Annville.
Other sons and daughters i:
elude; Rhoda, wife of Jot
Carman, Bainbridge, Naom
wife of Clarence Oberholtze
Elizabethtown; Melvin Duple>
Manheim; and Miss Stell-
Dupler, at home.
He is also survived by 4.
grandchildren, 80 great
grandchildren, two great-great
grandchildren and a sister, Mrs
Martin W. Espenshade
Elizabethtown RD4.
Pa. Broiler
Placements
Up 33 pet.
Placements of broiler chicks in
the Commonwealth during the
week ending October 20, 1973
were 1,432,000. The placements
were 33 percent above th«
corresponding week a yea/
earlier, and 12 percent above the
previous week. Average
placements during the past 1<
weeks were 13 percent above a
year earlier.
Settings for broiler chicks wer
2,030,000 - 12 percent above th<’
previous week and 33 percen.
above the comparable period .
year earlier. The current 3-wees
total of eggs set is 23 percent
above the same period a yea
ago.
Inshipments of broiler-typ<
chicks during the past 10 weeki
averaged 26,000 compared witß
18,000 a year ago. Outshipment,
averaged 286,000 during the pas
10 weeks, 21 percent above a yea:
earlier.
Placements in the 21 State
were 55,655,000 - 2 percent belov
the previous week but 4 percer
above the same week a yea.
earlier. Average placement:
during the past 10 weeks were
percent above a year ago.
Settings were 67,721,000 - L
percent above'the previous wee;
but 2 percent below a yea
earlier. The current 3-week toti
of eggs set is 2 percent below tb
comparable period a year age
•JIfOBEMIt
•more profit
WITH
MADISON SILOS
Div Chromalloy American Corp
1070 Steinmetz Rd
Ephrata, Penna. 17522
Ph. 733-1206
LOCAL DEALERS
Frank Snyder
Akron
Caleb Wenger
Quarryville
Landis Bros. Inc
Lancaster
CarlL Shirk
Lebanon
Sollenberger Farm Supply
Centerport, Pa
Ph 215-926-7671
859-26?
548-211
393-391
867-37-