4—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. Feb. 23. 1974
PmiltrV Market Reports Way, February 19,1974
IVUni W ■Willi W Prices paid per dozen Grade "A” brown eggs in cartons
Fogelsville dehvered enlarge* 8 LARGE MEDIUM SMALL
February ,9.1974 MASS* gj £B2 71-80
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report Mostly £79 76-77 72-73 ««
available at press tune. RI- »« 7fl - 79 74 * 75 «U 2
Poultry received Monday 7
p.m. to 10-30 p m. Tuesday 7 VERMONT
a.m. to 12 Noon. Sale at 11:30 Mostly
a.m MAINE
MoSt l+lncludes Central&We.tern Section. Only.
exit. North on stoplight in
Fogelsville, turn left,
proceed 1 mile.
WEEKLY NEW YORK
EGG MARKET
From Monday, February 18th
to Friday, February 22nd
Tues. Wed. Thurs.
Mon.
WHITE
Fey. Ex. H
Lge. 0 70
Large L 70
Mediums* i 62
Pullets D 60
Peewees A 45
BROWN
Fey. Lge
Mediums Unquoted
Pullets Unquoted
Peewees Unquoted
Off Grade
Lge. 64 62 62
Checks 49 48 47
Long Tone Weak.
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NEST RUN EGGS
Prices are from Egg Clearinghouse, Inc., (ECT) Durham,
N.H. and reflect trading prices for gradeable nest run 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 Wednesday Friday
Extra Large 51 lbs. 0 0
Class 1 - Large 48 lbs. 63 62
Class 3 - Medium 42 lbs. 57 54
Class 4 - Small 39 lbs. 52 48
Breaking Stock 48 lbs. 57 57
Checks 48 lbs. 50 50
Short bourse Planned for
Poultry Sales and Service
The annual Poultry Sales
and Service Short Course of
the College of Agriculture of
the Pennsylvania State
University is scheduled for
the mam campus April 2-3,
1974.
The program is designed
to assist producers,
salesmen and servicemen of
poultry products' and
equipment solve their
problems
Professor Robert K.
Ringer, Department of
Poultry Science at Michigan
State University, will discuss
Light Stimulation Review,
PCB's Feather Release and
other selected topics.
Michael Rosenstem, Poultry
Pathologist, Pennsylvania
Bureau of Animal Industry,
will speak on the Increase of
Disease Problems
Staff members of the
College of Agriculture will
speak on Problems and
Opportunities of a “Small
Producer”, Controlling
Mites, Ventilation Guides,
or others, FEOI7 is not a problem. One dealer told us he
could choke an elephant with his stack of FEO 17’s, and
Congressman Edwin Eshelman’s Lancaster office said they
could get all they wanted. A spokesman for the Congressman
said that farmers could call that office if they need the forms.
Technically, farmers aren’t supposed to fill out the forms
unless they’re trying to get more fuel than they used last
year. But many dealers are requiring tamers to fill the
forms out before they agree to sell any fuel at all And we
heard one rumor that the FEO is rejecting all requests for
more than a 20 percent increase in supply, which lets ex
panded operations pretty much out in the cold
Rumors, charges and counter-charges, of course, abound
in the present fuel situation. An Elizabethtown farmer told us
his dealer has been having trouble supplying him for months
“I was in the dealer’s office one day and his district
representative for the oil company called. He told my dealer
there wasn’t any more gas available until the end of the
month, January. My dealer talked to this gentleman for
awhile, and it turned out that there was gas available but it
was available at 58-cents a gallon ”
There have been other reports of gas available at a price
usually around 61-cents a gallon This price, we were told by
one dealer, reflects the world market price for gasoline.
Distributors can buy this high-priced product, mix it with
their domestic supplies and pass the cost increases alone to
customers 6
Delivery schedules may pose a problem for farmers who
have come to rely on almost instantaneous delivery Dealers
are starting to deliver in days instead of hours, so the farmer
who lets himself run bone dry may find himself unable to do
any fieldwork for a few days
All dealers we talked to said they would do all they could to
supply farmers’ needs, and many added that they were
worried about the potential for abuses in a system that
depends a great deal on the honesty of individual farmers
No dealer would comment on the outlook for fuel nnces'
but we did get the feeling they were headed upward. So when
you get fuel - and you probably will - lt ’U be expensive
Lancaster Farming
P.O. Box 266 - Lititz, Pa. 17543
Office: 22 E. Main St., Lititz, Pa. 17543
Record-Express Office Bldg.
Phone: Lancaster 717-394-3047
or Lititz 717-626-2191
Richard E. Wanner. Editor
£ Subscription price $2 per year
£ Established November 4,1955
£ Published every Saturday by Lancaster Farming
Lititz, Pa
£ Second Class Postage paid at Lititz, Pa 17543
£ Members of Newspaper Farm Editors Assn., Pa.
•ji Newspaper Publishers Association, and National
£ Newspaper Association.
Air Sac Problems, Personnel
Management, and other
items of value
The annual banquet will
have Jim Tarman, Associate
Director of Athletics, College
of Health, Physical
Education and Recreation,
Telling about events which
lead to an undefeated
football team, entitled “A
Perfect Season”.
An unusual feature of the
course will be a Poultry
Products Smorgasbord
Monday night, April 1.
Registration for the course
will be held at 9:00 a.m.
Tuesday, April 2. The
program starts at 10:00. Pre
registration is recom
mended.
An application blank and
copy of the program plus
information concerning
housing can be obtained
from the Director of Short
Courses, 306 Ag. Admin.
Bldg , The Pennsylvania
State University, University
Park, PA 16802.
Baltimore
Eggs
Wednesday, February 20
Baltimore eggs: market
unsettled. Demand generally
fair. Supplies of large and
mediums adequate.
Cartoned eggs: prices to
retailers, state graded (mm.
one case sale) white.
Fri.
Grade A Large 77-83,
mostly 77-80; Grade A
Medium 69-75, mostly 69-72.
Philadelphia
Eggs
Wednesday, February 20
Prices steady. Cartoning
demand fair at best. Stocks
of extra large fully adequate
to ample; large adequate;
mediums ample. Undertone
weak on smaller sizes.
Prices to retailers: sales to
volume buyers, consumer
grades white eggs in cartons,
delivered: store door.
A Extra Large, 75-76*2; A
Large A Medium 64-
68*2
Fuel Outlook
A farmer told us that he’d stopped using his tank at home to
fill his personal car, because he wanted to conserve his
supply for plowing and planting. Not all fanners have taken
that route, though, and at least one dealer is mad about it.
‘ ‘I delivered 150 gallons to a farm last month, and the other
day he called me up and asked for another 150 gallons. I know
he wasn’t using it for farming. The guy has three cars in his
garage, and that’s where the gas is going ’’
Another dealer told us, “We’ve got to be judge and jury
when a fanner comes to us for fuel. We’re supposed to give
him everything he needs, and he’s supposed to tell us what he
needs. What if he says he needs twice as much as he used last
year’ What if he hasn’t bought any more land’ What if he
says he’s going to use it all for farming and I know he’s not
going to’ Am I supposed to call that man a liar’ ”
The dealer’s dilemma is heightened by an apparent
shortage of form FEO 17. Dealers who need more fuel for
farm customers are instructed to fill out FEO 17 and send it
to the Federal Energy Office in Philadelphia. And a farmer
who’s turned down by a dealer has been instructed to get an
FEO 17 from the local Agricultural Stabilization and Con
servation Service office, and give it to his dealer who will in
turn forward it to the FEO. The local ASCS office, however,
reports that they don’t have any forms The state office is
getting some printed, and these should be available within a
week.
Eastern Pa.
&N.J.
Wednesday, February 20
Paces steady on light type
hens. Demand fair though
generally unaggressive.
Offerings adequate to barely
adequate for a lighter
dressed call. Offerings of
heavy type hens adequate
for a moderate interest.
Prices paid at farm: Light
type hens 6-9, mostly 8-9 in
PA, mostly 8-9 in NJ; heavy
type hens TFEWR.
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Wednesday, February 20 dertone weak and unsettled
Broiler-Fryer Market Negotiated trucklot pric es
Ready to cook movement 2 -3 lb. ready to cook broiler
continues fair though often fryers for delivery next
disappointing despite lower week: Plant Grade
asking prices. Slaughter Poo j trucklot prices { or
schedules irregular ranging Thursday arrival: US Grade
heavy to light depending on A 3 7-42, mostly 38; Plant
needs. Less than trucklot Grade 3G-W, mostlh 37
prices ranged 2-3 cents lower
Crouse Herd
Jan. Production
Milk and butterfat
production levels established
by Registered Holstein cows
in this area have been
reported by Holstein-
Fnesian Association of
America. All cows are from
the herd of Galen W. Crouse,
Len Lyn Farms, Stevens,
RDI, enrolled in the DHIR
official testing program.
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Millview Della Gent Faith,
3-4,-21,690 milk, 806 fat, 3.7
percent test in 354 days.
Len-Lyn Maxim Angie-OC,
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percent test in 365 days.
Len-Lyn Memory Lady, 7-
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percent test in 349 days.
Gil-Lad Greta Hope, 5-7,
17,110 milk, 725 fat, 4.2
percent test in 310 days.
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