Omaha Cattle Thursday, December 12 Compared with last week’s close: Slaughter steers 50*75 cents lower and Heifers mostly 25 cents lower. Cows 50-1.00 lower. Bull weak. Four day supply 10,900 as compared 18.400 previous week and 18,200 a year ago. Slaughter steers ap proximately 31 percent week’s total, Heifers 22 percent, and cows 10 per cent. Feeders for Friday auction and Bred Heifers Aerial ladder Equipped FARM PAINTING We Spray it on and Brush It In! FOR FREE ESTIMATES CALL COLLECT 717-393-6530 OR WRITE HENRY K. FISHER 2322 Old Phila. Pike Lancaster, Pa. 17602 OVER TEN YEARS EXPERIENCE Feed, whether you buy it or grow it, represents on outlay of 25 to 45% of your milk check. Beacon's Free Roughage Analysis Service can help you lay the foundation for an efficient and effective feeding program for your herd. "Eyeball" analyses won't do the job. You need scientific sampling, high quality laboratory analyses of the samples, and . . . most of all ... the recommendations of skilled and practical dairy nutritionists on how to apply these analyses to benefit your herd. The Beacon Roughage Analysis Service will help you toward the three goals all dairymen share: Higher Milk Production, Greater Income Over Feed Cost, Improved. Net Returns.' There is no charge for this very worthwhile service. The Beacon Advisor will visit your farm, take samples of all your roughages. He'll send them to the Beacon laboratory for analysis. You'll get back a report and feeding recom mendations tailored specifically to your herd, it's production level and your roughage supply. Why not call us today? H. JACOB HOOBER EARL SAUDER, INC. INTERCOURSE, PA. NEW HOLLAND, PA. THARPE A GREEN MILL H. M. STAUFFER & SONS, INC. CHURCHVILLE, MD. WITMER, PA. TED BELEFSKI CHESTER WEIST R. E. RUDISILL RICHARD B. &NDIG Ph. 523-9173 , and Cow sale on Thursday approximately 33 percent. STEERS: Modest volume High-Choice and Prime 1000- 1192 lbs. yield grade 34 37.50- 38.75 during week, none above 37.75 at low time Monday and Load 1232 Ibe. yield grade 4 37.00 that day. On Tuesday and Wednesday, two loads Choice and Prime 1350-1380 lbs. yield grade 3-5 36.00- and three loads 1475-1513 lbs. yield grade 4-5 33.00- Choice 850-1250 lbs. yield grade 24 closed 37.0038.00, load High-Good and Choice 1039 lbs. yield grade 3 39.25 for Canadian TELLS THE STORY! 1 Ph. 741-2600 Beacon Feeds, York, Pa. Phone 717-843-9033 shipment. Mixed Good and Choice 060-1225 lbs. 35.00- 37.00. Good 33.50-35.50. Standard and Good 31.50- 33.50. Average cost Slaughter Steers first 4hree days 36.73 average weight 1,132 lbs. as compared 36.07 and 1,115 lbs. previous week and 37.12 and 1,155 lbs. a year ago. HEIFERS: Early, High- Choice and Prime 919-1127 lbs. yield grade 3-4 37.00- 37.25. same grades on later sessions 902-1052 lbs. 37.50- 38.00. Choice 850-1050 lbs. yield grade 2-4 closed 36.00- 37.25. Mixed Good and Choice 750-975 lbs. 35.25- 36.25. Good 33.50-35.50. Standard and Low-Good 31.50-33.00. COWS: Utility and Commerical 15.50-17.50. Canner and Cutter 12.00- 15.50. Mixed Cutter and low- Utility 15,75-16.00. Shelly Canner 10.00-11.50. BULLS: Yield grade 1-2 1400-1800 lbs. 21.00-23.00, an individual 23.50. TRY A CLASSIFIED AD! B^CO^EEDS ROUGHAGE For Higher Milk Production For Greater Income Over Feed Cost For Improved Net Returns Beacon Reps. Ph. 854-2281 ANALYSIS INCREASES YOUR POTENTIAL VAN-MAR FEEDS LEESPORT, PA. MiCRACKEN S FEED MILL, INC. MANHEIM, PA. Ph. 302-478-3058 Holstein Directors The Lancaster County Holstein Association Board of Directors met on December 6th at 8:00 p.m. In the Farm and Home Center. Under new business, Clarence Stauffer was re elected to a three year term as State Director. Com mittees for the coming year were also appointed. Mr. Stauffer then went over several state activities scheduled for the coming year. On Thursday, April 17, the State Calf Sale will be held. The following day there will be another sale which will include cows, bred heifers and a few bulls. To finish out the week, on Saturday, April 19, the State Holstein Show will take place. Jay Landis and Clarence Stauffer, the county sales represen tatives, will begin selecting animals for these two sales in January. The 1975 State Convention will be held in Gettysburg on November 20 and 21. A new Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Dec. 14,1974 — Meet addition to this annual event will be a convention sale to be held on November 22. The 1975 county mem bership drive will start on December 26 with a kick-off meeting to be held in the Farm and Home Center at 10:30 a.m. Elvin Hess, former state president, was elected as a honorary member of the county board of directors. Mr. Hess will not be a voting member of the board, but will act in an advisory capacity only. Greg Landis, president of the County Junior Holstein Association, then com mented on the Junior Club and activities that are being planned. President Clair Hershey then adjourned the meeting. The next directors meeting will be held on February 7, 1975. When Trimming the Tree Do not place your Christmas tree near radiators, fireplaces, in doorways, or paths of exit, reminds the National Safety Council. Check all electric extension cords for frays. Purchase light and cord sets that cany a UL marker. Turn off lights when you leave the house or before going to bed. Remember not to overload circuits by having too many plugs in one outlet. New, tough spreader... 318 bur big! Looks like all the other New Idea heavyweights... really made strong! Equipped with oscillating bogie axles for good flota tion and load carrying ca pacity on soft, uneven ground. The clear yellow pine box is treated with •New 1971 ASAE standards for single baater model: 173 cu. ft struck capacity, 275 cu. ft. heaped capacity. UMBERGERSMILL RD4,Lebanon (Fontana) 717-867-8221 A. L. HERR & BRO. Quarryville 717-786-3521 CHAS. J. McCOMSEY & SONS N. G. HERSHEY & SON Hickory Hill, Pa Manheim - 215-932-2615 717-665-2271 STOLTZFUS FARM SERVICE LONGENECKER FARM SUPPLY Cochranville Pa Rheems 5280 717-367-3590 A.S.C. GROFF, INC. New Holland 717-354 4191 Pa. Broiler Placements Rise 12 pet. Placements of broiler chicks in the Commonwealth during the week ending December 7, 1974 were 1,350,000. The placements were 12 percent above the corresponding week a year earlier, and 6 percent above the previous week. Average placements during the past 10 weeks were 4 percent below a year earlier. Settings for broiler chicks were 1,976,000 5 percent less than the previous week and 2 percent below the comparable period a year earlier. The current 3-week total of eggs set is ap proximately the same as the corresponding period a year ago. Inshipments of broiler type chicks during the past 10 weeks averaged 2,000 compared with zero a year ago. Outshipments averaged 222,000 during the past 10 weeks, 18 percent less than a year earlier. Placements in the 21 States were 54,877,000 - 3 percent above the previous week but 7 percent below the same week a year earlier. Average placements during the past 10 weeks were II percent below a year ago. Settings were 65,376,000 - 2 percent below the previous week and 3 percent below a year earlier. The current 3- week total of eggs set is 7 percent below the com parable period a year ago. from -forced - ;a heavy steel cross ribs, ride members, full length steel flares. Choice of single beater and double beater models. Op tions include hydraulic end gate and pan attachment for sloppy manure. See the big one today! LANC. EQUIP. CENTER, INC. Kmzer, Pa 717-442-4186 or 717-768-8916 ROYH. BUCK, INC. Ephrata, R D 2 717-859-24-1 " ||HQ LdlUlMtil 717-393-3906 7