B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 22, 1975 4* C° EVERY WEDNESDAY IS % mm dairy SSL DAY AT NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES, INC. New Holland, Pa. If you need 1 cow or a truck load, we have from 100 to 200 cows to sell every week at your price Mostly fresh and close springing Holstems. Cows from local farmers and our regular shippers including Marvin Eshleman, Glenn Fite, Gordon Fritz, Blaine. Hoffer, Dale Hostetter, Bill Lang, H D Matz.'abiJerry Miller. SALE STARK 12:30 SHARP r Also Every Wednesday, Hay, Straw & A} OU, Ear Corn Sale 12:00 Noon. i % *»° I itn CORN VORIS VIGOR-PROVEN V-2662 - 125 Day Maturity, Very Dependable, Large Ears, Heat & Leaf Disease Resistant, Deep Kernal. V 2642 - 119 Day Maturity A Champion. Short-stalked, upright leaf, with a really high yield and potentigjTl/loderately high population V 2622 - 116 Day Maturity Exceptionally healthy hybrid with rugged, dependable yields where ever it goes. One of the finest silage hybrids. " *582 - 114 Day Maturity .smand. A special hybrid for the East, large 'ed. excellent stalk, and fast drying V 2552 - 113 Day Maturity This is a high population hybrid. Pour on the fertilizer, early tasselmg and silking a high yielder. / V 2332 - 90 Day Maturity Tremendous yield potential. Early. Fast drying. High yielder. Picks and shells beautifully. CONTACT REIST SEED CO. Mt. Joy, Pa. Phone 653-4121 AN IMPORTANT NOTICE fri TO ALL CONSIGNORS OF LAMBS ON MONDAY & WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24th & 26th, Which is the Monday and Wednesday before Easter, all lambs will be sold at auction beginning at noon. All these lambs will be sorted and weighed upon arrival. It is recom mended that these be the days, Monday and Wednesday, March 24th & 26th, to have lambs on the market, and your consignments are respectfully solicited. For further information, please contact Horace Plank. Tel.: Area 717-397-5136 (office), or Area 717-392-2304 (residence). WALTER M. DUNLAP and SONS LANCASTER STOCKYARDS St. Louis Weekly Weekly Cattle Review: Receipts 6800 Last Week 6100 Year Ago 5500 Compared with last Tuesday, Slaughter Steers and Heifers steady to mostly 50 higher, most advance on Choice and Mixed Good and Choice. Cows mostly 1.00 higher, Bulls fully steady. Supply near 42 percent Steers mostly Choice 950- 1250 lbs. yield grade 2-4, with 22 percent Heifers, 15 per- cent Cows and 20 percent BULLS: Yield grade 1-2 Feeders. 1000-1600 lbs. 20.00-24.00, SLAUGHTER STEERS; yield grade 1 1800- Choice 950-1300 lbs. yield 2300 lbs. 25.00. grade 2-4 closing 35.00-36.50. Mixed Good and Choice 900- I9nn ihs 3.3 00-35.00 jnostly " T ' Special Feeder Sale Tuesday, March 18 Feeder Pigs Today 1724 Two Weeks Ago 857 FEEDER PIGS: Com- pared to two weeks ago US 1- 2 2.00-5.00 lower, instances 10.00 lower; US 2-310.00-20.00 lower. All prices on per hundred basis. US 1-2 55-60 lb. 81.50-82.00; 545 Attend Federation When John Hoffman Secretary of Agriculture looked over the audience at Jane Alexander and from the Pennsylvania Poultry Dean Beattie, dean of the Federation’s annual banquet Penn State College of on Wednesday night, he saw Agriculture. Beattie talked 545 faces looking back at about the cutback in funds him, the largest number to for the university’s research ever attend one of these programs m the coming yearly fund-raising get- year, and commented on togethers. Hoffman, the some of the programs that federation’s executive would have to be curtailed, director, was master of Also speaking were ceremonies for the $5O-a- Vernon Leininger of the Ko plate affair which was held; Ka-Le-Ko Egg Ranch in at the Harrisburg Host. \Denver. Leininger is Motel. president of the federation Co-chairmen for the banquet this year were Kenneth Longacre, of Horace W. Longacre, Inc., Franconia, and Dale M. Weaver, Victor F. Weaver, Inc., New Holland. The group heard from Pennsylvania Deputy CHICKEN GRAVY 2 tablespoons fat drippings 3 tablespoons corn starch 2 cups milk 1/4 cup water Salt, pepper to taste Return the fat drippings to skillet in which chicken was fried. Stir in milk. Cook over medium heat stirring and scraping pan to loosen browned meat juices. Mix together corn starch and water. Stir into milk mixture. Cook, stir ring constantly, until gravy comes to a boil. Season to taste with salt and pepper. For thinner gravy, stir in extra milk. Makes about 2 1/4 cups gravy. 34.00-35.00. Good 30.00-33.50. Standatd and Good Holsteins 1100-1300 lbs. 29.00-30.50. SLAUGHTER HEIFERS: Choice 800-1050 lbs. yield grade 2-4 33.00-34.50, closing mostly 33.50-34.50. Mixed Good and Choice 32.00-33.50. Good 700-1000 lbs. 29.00-32.00. Few Standard and Good 650- 850 lbs. 25.00-30.00. COWS: Utility and Commerical 18.00-21.00, few 21.50-22.00. Cutter 16.00-18.00, Canner 14.00-16.00. VEALERS: Choice 32.00- 38.00, few 39.00. 61-71 lb. 67.50-74.50; One lot 83 lb. 57.50. US 2 31-47 lb. 87.00-92.00; One lot 37 lb. 94.00; 48-57 lb. 75.00-82.00 ; 62-67 lb. 69.00- 72.00; 74-77 lb. 55.00-57.00. US 2-3 25-38 lb. 83.00-94.00; 40-52 lb. 75.00-82.00; 103-106 lb. 45.00. US 3 72-96 lb. 48.50-55.50. Pa. Poultry Fundraiser for 1974-75. Pennsylvania Poultry Queen Kathy Bicksler brought the group up to date on her activities since she was crowned. Entertainment was provided by vocalist Nancy Lee Howe and comedian Billy Kelly. Local Grain Thursday, March 20 These prices are made up of the average prices quoted by a number of participating local feed and grain con cerns. It should be noted, however, that not every dealer or broker handles each commodity. All prices are per bushel except ear corn which is per ton. The average local grain priced quoted Thursday, March 20, 1975 are as follows: IN STOCK NOW A FULL LINE OF GARDEN SEEDS and SUPPLIES ORDERS TAKEN FOR SEED POTATOES OTHER HOUSEHOLD ITEMS - VANILLA - GLOVES - GREAT FIND - BOOTS - COUGH SYRUP - RUBBERS - COLD TABLETS - BUCKETS - PINE OIL . HANDCREAM - GENT-L-KLEEN SOAP GARDEN TOOLS SHOVELS RAKES FORKS HOES AARON S. GROFF & SON FARM & DAIRY STORE R.D.3, Ephrata, Pa. 17522 {HinWetown] Phone 354-0744 Store Hours: 7 A.M. to 9 P.M. Closed Tuesdays & Saturdays at 5:30 f.M. Madison Silos Division Office, P.O. Box 271, Madison, Wis. 53701 MADISON SILOS Div Chromalloy American Corp 1070 Stemmetz Road Ephrala, PA 17522 Phone 733-1206 LOCAL DEALERS MESSICK FARM EQUIPMENT INC. Elizabethtown 367-1319 FRANK SNYDER. 859-2688 Akron SOLLENBERGER FARM CALEB WENGER SUPPLY Quarryville 548-2116 Centerport 215-926-2722 Bid+ Offered+ Ear Corn 59.30 66.00 Shelled Com 2.87 3.10 Oats Local Western Barley Wheat Millers 3.17 Feed 2.10 2.37 1.55 1.83 2.06 2.19 2.52 +Bid is the price the dealer will buy from the farmer delivered to the mill. Offered is the price the dealer will sell for at his min LANDIS BROS. INC. Lancaster 393-3906 CARL L. SHIRK Lebanon 717-274-1436
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