4—Lancaster Farmlm, Saturday, Feb. 2.1974
Poultry Market
WEEKLY NEW YORK
EGG MARKET
From Monday, January 28th
to Friday, February Ist
Tues. Wed. Thun. Fri.
Mon.
Fey. Ex.
Lge. 76 76 76
Large 76 76 76
Mediums 74 74 74
Pullets 69 69 69
Peewees 50 50 50
BROWN
Fey. Lge 81
Mediums Unquoted
Pullets Unquoted
Peewees Unquoted
Off Grade
Lee. 71 71 71 69
Checks 50 50 50 50
Long Tone Barely Steady.
Copyright 1974 Urner Barry Publication*
NEST RUN EGGS
Prices are from Egg Clearinghouse, Inc., (ECI) Durham,
N.H. and reflect trading prices for gradeable nest ran eggs
(GNR) on ECI, a nationwide trading center for producers,
packers and marketers. GNR eggs are classified by weight in
30-dozen cases, and traded in lots of either 300 or 750 cases.
Prices are FOB buyers dock, and are computed Tuesday and
Thursday of each week. This week’s prices for each
classification were:
New Weight
Classification Per Case Tuesday Thursday l
Extra Large 51 lbs. 0 0
Class 1 - Large 48 lbs. 70 68
Class 3 - Medium 42 lbs. 67 65
Class 4-Small 39lbs. 61 59
Breaking Stock 48 lbs. 63 63
Checks 48 lbs. , 53 53
Program Initiated to Detect
Possible Newcastle Disease
Pennsylvania Secretary of
Agriculture Jim McHale
announced the Com
monwealth is cooperating
with a recently developed
nationwide program to
detect possible outbreaks of
exotic Newcastle disease
among poultry and pet birds.
The program in Penn
sylvania is in accored with
plans developed by the
USDA. In Pennsylvania the
surveillance and in
vestigation system is being
set up by Dr. E. T. Mallm
son, chief of the state Bureau
of Animal Industry’s Poultry
and Health Division, and Dr.
R. E. Yoxheimer, USDA
Veterinary medical officer.
Both men will work with
the poultry industry to obtain
prompt and reliable in
formation on poultry disease
outbreaks.
AH suspicious cases will be
tested in the Department’s
Lancaster Farming
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Office; 22 E. Main St, Lititz, Pa. 17543
Record-Express Office Bldg.
Phone: Lancaster 717-394-3047
or Lititz 717-626-2191
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Summerdale Diagnostic
Laboratory. The Penn
sylvania Agriculture
Department has been testing
for the disease since 1970
when exotic Newcastle
disease was first recognized
as a distinct, emerging
threat.
The disease was brought
into this country from im
ported birds and then spread
to the commercial poultry
industry in several states. It
recently took a heavy
economic toll of California
poultry flocks before being
eradicated at a cost of $5O
million.
Dr. Mallinson said the
surveillance program was
initiated because of the
possibility of exotic
Newcastle disease being re
introduced into the United
States.
Newcastle disease cannot
be transmitted to humans.
Reports
Baltimore
Eggs
Wednesday, January
Market steady. Demand
generally slow. Supplies
ample.
Cartoned eggs: Prices to
retailers, state graded (min
one case sale) white
Grade A Large 83-89;
mostly 83-85;
Grade A Medium 81-87;
mostly 81-83.
Philadelphia
Eggs
Wednesday, January 30
Prices unchanged. Car
toning demand fair though
generally unaggressive.
Offerings fully adequate
though often confidently held
pending outcome of expected
transportation problems.
Prices to retailers; Sales
to volume buyers, consumer
grades white eggs in cartons,
delivered: store door.
A Extra Large 81-82%; A
Large 80-81%; A Medium 76-
77%.
Inter-State Requests
Extension of Order 4
Robert B. McSparran, Peach Bottom, announced Wed
nesday that local dairy farmers who are members of Inter-
State Milk Producers’ Cooperative, will have Dr. Paul E.
Hand, economist, testify in their behalf through Pennmarya
Dairymen’s Cooperative Federation, at a Federal Milk
Hearing on January 23,1974, at the Holiday Inn, Allentown,
Pa.
Local dairy leaders have requested an extension of Federal
Milk Order 4 pricing area. McSparran, District 3 Director of
Inter-State Milk Producers’ Cooperative, asserted, “This
will aid dairymen in the present and new area to improve
their bargaining position, and to obtain uniform prices for
their milk.” For many dairymen not now shipping to Inter*
State, or to other dealers under Order 4, it will mean in*
creases in Class prices up to $10.78 per hundredweight, or 23.1
cent per quart. In addition, Hand will ask that the Class II
price for milk be increased over $l.OO for products other than
butter and powder. This action by Inter-State should add
thousands of dollars in return to dairymen and should
provide stable markets for the long-run future.
The newly proposed area to be added to Order 4 includes
Philadelphia, Delaware, Bucks, Montgomery, Adams,
Berks, Chester, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Fulton,
Juniata, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh, Northampton, Perry,
and York Counties in Pennsylvania and Washington County,
Maryland. (Philadelphia, Delaware, and parts of Bucks and
Montgomery Counties are now in Middle Atlantic Milk
Marketing Order area which also includes Southern New
Jersey, Delaware, Eastern Maryland, and Northern
Virginia.)
Inter-State represents some 2900 dairy farmers in Penn
sylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and
West Virginia,
TRY A CLASSIFIED AD
PHONE 626-2191 or 394-3047
<“"») FARMERS (°™ aY )
MARKET your
1973 TOBACCO
Through
AGWAY, INC.
Where Quality is Recognized
by USDA Grade.
For More Information Call
AGWAY LANCASTER 394-0544
Fogelsville
January 29,1974
(Prices paid dock weights
cents per lb.)
Hens, light type 7-12;
Hens, heavy type 10%-26,
mostly 12-22; Pullets 24-33,
mostly 27-29; Roasters 20-33,
mostly 24-29; Capons 36%-
40; Ducks 49-55; Drakes 45-
65, mostly 51-55; Geese 52-
53%; Turkeys-Toms 10-33;
Rabbits 6580, mostly 75-78;
Pigeons (per pr.) 1.208.01.
Total coops sold 434.
Poultry received Monday 7
p.m.to 10:30p.m. Tuesday?
a.m. to 12 Noon. Sale at 11:30
a.m.
Directions Take Rt. 22
thruway. Exit at Fogelsville
exit. North on stoplight in
Fogelsville, turn left,
proceed 1 mile.
Dogs For Allies?
The Yanomamo tribes of Vene
zuela never openly admit a need
for allies, because this implies a
weakness To foster an alliance,
they deal in trade items - dogs,
pots, baskets - and rely on them
to create bonds between giver
and recipient
NEW ENGLAND WEEKLY
SHELL EGG REPORT
Tuesday, January 29,1974
Prices paid per dozen Grade “A” brown eggs in cartons
delivered to retail stores:
EX LARGE LARGE MEDIUM SMALL
MASS+ 83-09 82-88 77-82 67-74
Mostly 84-86 83-85 78-80 68-71
N.H. 82-89 81-88 76-83 66-73
Mostly 84-85 83-84 78-79 68-69
R.I. 86-87 85-86 80-81 70-71
Mostly
VERMONT 84-92 83-91 78-84 TFEWR
Mostly
MAINE 84-86 83-85 78-80
Mos tiy .
For specific information on area prices within a state,
please inquire at your local radio stations, newspapers, or
from your State Department of Agriculture.
Delmarva
Wednesday, January 30
Broiler-Fryer Market
Ready to cook movement
often generally uncertain in
face of impending truck
strike. Slaughter schedules
irregular ranging about
normal to curtailed.
Tomorrow’s slaughter ex
pected to be light as
processors await further
transportation develop
ments. Less than trucklot
prices generally unchanged
on both plant and US Grade
A though in instances un
confirmed prices noted
lower. Live supplies ample.
Undertone very unsettled
with advance interest taking
a wait and see position.
Pool trucklot prices for
Thursday arrival: US Grade
A 39-46 mostly 39; Plant
Grade 38-44 mostly 38.
TRY A
CLASSIFIED
AD
HIGH PRESSURE
WASHING
OF POULTRY HOUSES AND VEAL PENS
BARRY L. HSRR
1744 Pioneer Road, Lancaster, Pa
Phone 717-464-2044
Formerly operated by Maynard L Beitzel
P. L ROHRER & BRO., INC.
SMOKETOWN. PA.
Eastern Pa.
&NJ.
Wednesday, January 30
Live Poultry
Eastern Pennsylvania and
New Jersey live poultry
report:
Prices steady on light type
hens. Demand fair to good
for limited offerings. Of
ferings of heavy type hens
ample for fair call.
Prices paid at farm: light
type hens 6-9; mostly 8-9 in
Pa.; mostly 8-9 in N.J.
Heavy type hens TFEWR.
HAY &
STRAW SALE
EVERY
WEDNESDAY
AT 12 NOON
PAUL Z. MARTIN
SALESSTABLES
2 miles East of
Intercourse
Sale managed by
Harvey Z. Martin
Phone Lane. 397-3539
68-70