■Uncwter Farming. Saturday. Sept. 21.1974
Poultry Market Reports
WEEKLY NEW YORK
EGG MARKET
Monday, September 1< to Friday, September 20
Mon. Tne*. Wed. Thun. Fri.
WHITE
Ex. Larg.
Large
Mediums
Pullets
Peewees
BROWN
Large 69 J7O 70 70 70
Mediums Unquoted
Pullets Unquoted
Peewees Unquoted
Off Grade
Large 57 58 58 59 59
Checks 43 43% 43 % 43% 43%
Tone Pullets Slow, Balance Fully Steady.
Copyright 1974 Urner Barry Publications
NEST ftUN EGGS
Prices are from Egg Clearinghouse, Inc., (ECI) 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:
Classification
Extra Large
Class 1 - Large
Class 3 - Medium
Class 4 - Small
Breaking Stock
Checks
Peoria
Thursday, Sept. 19
Weekly 51
CATTLE: Receipts this
week: 4700. Last week: 4900.
Year ago: 5200.
sustain top
production
with the
BABCOCK
B-300
Keeping production up
... costs down... is the
profit key in poultry
operations. And more
and more records on
commercial flocks of
Babcock B-300’s .. .
“The Businessman’s
Bird” . . . show
sustained production of
top quality eggs ...
often with an additional
20 to 30 eggs per bird
housed over other
strains. Come in ...
look at the records and
the B-300 ... “The
Businessman’s Bird”.
ABCOCK
FARMS
Telephone [7l7] 626-8257
Telephone 1717] 626-8561
New Weight _
Per Case Tuesday Thursday
51 lbs. 0 0
48 lbs. 58 5 ®
42 lbs. 54 58
39 lbs. 40 48
48 lbs. 52 52
48 lbs. 44 44
Cattle
Compared with last weeks
close, slaughter steers weak
to 1.00 lower. Slaughter
heifers 1.00-2.00 lower. Bulls
steady. Receipts about 75
percent slaughter steers, 15
percent slaughter heifers,
balance mainly cows.
SLAUGHTER STEERS:
Choice 903-1300 pounds 2-4
40.00- closing 41.00-
43.00; couple loads 1100-1250
43.75-44.00; several loads for
Canadian export 1100-1200
43,0044.00; Choice 1250-1300
3-4 40.50-41.50; 800-950
pounds 36.0041.00; couple
loads Choice 1340-1400
pounds 4-5 40.0041.00; Mixed
Good and Choice 900-1300
39.5041.50; Good 38.0040.00;
Standard and Good Holsteins
36.00- Late 36.00-38.50.
SLAUGHTER HEIFERS;
Choice 800-1050 pounds 24
38.5041.00; late 39.0041.00,
load 41.5042.00; 700-800 32.00-
38.00; Mixed Good and
Choice 750-1050 36.00-39.00;
Good 34.00-36.00.
COWS: Utility and
Commercial 19.50-22.00;
high-dressing Utility 22.50,
up to 23.50 Monday. Cutter
18.00-20.00; Canner 16.50-
18.50.
BULLS: 1-2 1100-1700
nounds 27.00-30.00.
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Office: 22 E. Main St, Lititz, Pa. 17543
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Phone: Lancaster 717-394-3047
or Lititz 717-626-2191
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Prices unchanged on light
type hens. Offerings barely
adequate as producers hold
further production in face of
advancing egg prices.
Demand Fair. Offerings of
heavy type hens barely
adequate for a good interest.
Heavy roasters short of a
fairly good call.
Prices paid at farm: Light
Type Hens 4-6, mostly 6 in
PA.; mostly 5-6 in N.J.
Heavy Type Hens
TFEWR.
Baltimore
USDA Report
CATTLE 375. Limited
sales slaughter steers and
heifers steady, other classes
being held for AM Auction.
Supply 25 percent slaughter
steers & heifers steady, 50
percent cows, 20 percent
feeders, balance bulls.
STEERS: Few Choice
yield grade 2-3 985-1200 lbs.
45.00; Good and Choice 1070-
1260 lbs. 41.75-42.10; Good
yield grade 24 1025-1365 lbs.
36.0040.50; Standard & Low
Good 900-1350 lbs. 30.75-34.00.
HEIFERS: Choice yield
grade 34 820-900 lbs. 42.00-
43.50.
HOGS 650. Barrows & Gilts
mostly $1 lower. US No. 1-3
200-230 lbs. 35.25-35.50,
limited sales 35.75-36.00, No.
2-3 230-250 lbs. 34.25-35.25,
No. 24 250-270 lbs. 33.25-
34.25.
SOWS: $1 to $2 lower. US
No. 1-3 300400 lbs. 25.00-
27.50, No. 24 400-600 lbs.
24.00-25.00.
The annual Make It
Yourself With Wool
(MIYWW) contest is now
officially open in Penn
sylvania with exciting new
rule changes.
In 1971 the contest rules
were changed to include
hand knit and crocheted
garments and m 1972 young
men were first admitted,
competing on equal basis
with young women.
This year for the first time.
Wool blend fabrics of no less
than 70 percent wool and no
more than 30 percent other
fibers are being allowed. The
other fibers may be man
made or natural fibers such
as cotton or silk.
Also for the first time,
imported fabrics are being
admitted.
Entry forms are now
Lititz, Pa
September 16,1974
Wool Sewing
Contest Set
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Fogelsville
Sale of September 17
Hens, heavy type 6-20;
mostly 6-14. Pullets 37-44;
mostly 31-40. Roasters 10-42;
mostly 36-38. Ducks 15-50%;
mostly 30-45. Drakes 15-51.
Rabbits 10-52; mostly 20-
30%. Guineas 90-1.10.
Pigeons (Per Pair) 900.00.
Total Coops Sold 393.
Poultry received Monday 7
p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Tuesday 7
a.m. to 12 Noon. Sale at 11:30
a.m.
Directions Take Rt. 2
thruway. Exit at Fogelsville
exit. North on stoplight in
Fogelsville, turn left,
proceed 1 mile.
Delmarva
Broiler-Fryer Market
Wednesday, Sept. 18
Ready to cook movement
spotty ranging light to oc
casionally good where a new
feature involved. Slaughter
schedules about steady in
line with expected needs.
Today’s less than trucklot
asking prices generally 2
cents lower on both plant and
US Grade A. Live supplies
fully adequate to ample with
eights increasing in some
quarters. Undertone un
settled.
Negotiated trucklot prices
2-3 lb. ready to cook broiler
fryers for delivery nest
week: US Grade A, none;
Plant Grade 35-36.
Current broiler-fryer
negotiated prices for im
mediate delivery mostly
multiple-drop shipments to
New York City from
Delmarva:
Range: US Grade A 38-40,
Plant Grade 37-39, Premium
available from district 1
director, Mrs. Robert
Massing, RDI, Bluebird Hill
Farm, Greenville, Pa. 16125.
The contest in Pa. is divided
into sub-deb (10-13 years)
junior (14-16) and senior (17-
21).
With stores beginning to
stock new fall fabrics and
fall fashion pattern books
available, it’s a great time,
to begin planning to par
ticipate.
MIYWW in Pennsylvania
is sponsored by the Penn
sylvania Sheep and Wool
Growers, additional award
sponsors are firms in
terested in further
developing the home-sewing
and hand-crafts.
The contest in Penn
sylvania involves com
petition in each of 11
districts, the junior and
senior winners of which
travel to the state contest.
The top winner at the state
competition will then travel
directly to San Antonio,
Texas in January to compete
at the National Finals.
Judging by competent
persons at each level is
based on the contestants’
skill in sewing or knitting; in
making garments properly
coordinated in color, design
and texture for her-his own
figure and coloring; in
selecting fashions suitable to
her-his age and activities;
and on modeling the gar
ments submitted.
NEW ENGLAND WEEKLY
SHELL EGG REPORT
Wednesday, September 17,1974
Pricea paid per dozen Grade “A” brown eggs in cartons
delivered to retail stores:
EX LARGE LARGE MEDIUM SMALL
MASS+ 74-83 72-78 70-76 43-52
Mostly 76-77 73-75 71-73 44-46
NEWHAMP 72-79 70-77 68-75 ' 41-48
Mostly 74-75 72-73 70-71 ' 43-44
R I. 78-79 75-78 73-74 47-48
VERMONT 76-84 71-81 72-79
Mostly 7682 74-79 72-73
MAINE 74-78 72-76 70-74
-{-Includes Central and Western Sections Only.
US Grade A 42-44, Premium
Plant Grade 4042.
Weighted Average: US
Grade A 39.10, Plant Grade
37.28, Premium US Grade A
43.56; Premium Plant Grade
41.66.
Baltimore
Eggs
Wednesday, Sept. 18
Baltimore Eggs: Prices
unchanged to 1 cent higher.
Demand fair. Supplies
adequate.
Cartoned Eggs: Prices to
retailers, state graded (min
one case sale) White.
Grade A Large 73-78,
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mostly 73-75.
Grade A Medium 68-73,
mostly 68-70.
Philadelphia
Eggs
Wednesday, Sept. 18
Prices unchanged to
higher on all sizes. Cartoning
demand fair. Offerings of
Extra Large adequate, other
sizes fully adequate. Un
dertone fully steady.
Price to retailers: Sales to
volume buyers, consumer
grades White eggs in car
tons, delivered: Store door:
A Extra Large 69-72%; A
Large 68-71%; A Medium 61-
64%.
• UNIFORM COATED PELLETS - for
even drilling
• CLEAN AND EASY TO HANDLE will
not clog up drills
• CONTAINS FAST ACTING AND
LONG LASTING NITROGEN AND
PHOSPHORUS
• HIGH ANALYSIS - less handling
and fewer stops while planting
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