B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 22, 1975
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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
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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