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JAN. 1-7, 1979
Happy New Year to all!
Order seed catalogs now Teddy Roosevelt died Jan 6, 1919
First quarter of the moon Jan 5 Average length of days for the
week, 9 hours, 10 minutes At spm on the 4th, the earth will be
at its closest point to the sun 91,405,000 miles compared to
94,509,000 next July 3rd Alaska admitted to Union Jan. 3,
1959 Let thy discontents be secrets
- Sipio is a variety of pool, played with
15 numbered balls and the same
amount of numbered holes into which
the balls are directed to enter
Home Hints: To make a quick ice-pack, fill a rubber glove with cracked ice
and tie the wrist
OLD FARMER'S WEATHER FORECASTS
New England: Cloudy with some flumes to midweek, then clear
ing and very cold
Greater New York-New Jersey: Very cold, then snowstorm, heavy
south, then heavy ram and sleet, milcjer by week's end
Middle Atlantic Coastal: Week begins partly sunny and very cold,
snow at midweek, warm weekend
Piedmont & Southeast Coastal: Cold with snow and sleet, some
clearing and very cold last part of week
Florida: Clear with frost north, warming with ram north for end
of week
Upstate NY-Toronto & Montreal: Clear and cold with light snow
west to start, warming by week's end
Greater Ohio Valley: Very cold with flumes, light snow for”
week's end
Deep South: First of week brings snow north and rain south, then
cloudy and cold with rain or sleet for remainder of week
Chicago & Southern Great Lakes: Very cold, seasonal with snow
all week.
Northern Great Plains-Great Lakes: Week starts very cold and
cloudy with light snow, snow west, heavier in east for last of week
Central Great Plains: Light snow, very cold first part of week, then
cloudy and cold east, flumes in the west
Texas-Oklahoma: Snow north with light rain south and west,
showery through week's end
Rocky Mountain: Snow, clearing in south by last of week
Southwest Desert: Partly cloudy all week, cold south
Pacific Northwest: Showery throughout the week
California: Week starts rainy with snow in the mts, cloudy
through week's end
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New Holland
Dairy
New Holland Sales Stables
Wednesday, December 27
Reported receipts of 94
cows and 92 heifers. Market
steady with last week’s
market.
Load of Pa. fresh 750-1410;
Ask the Old Farmer: In his book
Cape Cod Yesterdays Joseph C Lin
coln mentions a "billiards and pool
and sipio parlor in Chatham, Mas
sachusetts What was "sipio’" T L,
New Bedford, Mass
load of N.Y., purebreds and
grades, fresh 880-1400,
springers 950-1650; load of
Pa. purebreds and grades,
fresh 660-1225, springers 860-
1660; load of Pa. fresh 975-
1075; load of Md. fresh 700-
1025, springers 950-1075;
local cows 700-1275;
springing heifers 725-930;
open heifers 350-575.
Pa. Auction
Summary
Pa. Auction Summary of 9
Livestock Auction
Market Reports
December 29,1978
CATTLE 3842. Compared
to 4207 last week and 5270 a
year ago. Compared with
last week’s market,
slaughter steers mostly
steady to $l.OO higher.
Slaughter heifers steady to
$1.50 higher. Slaughter cows
$l.OO-2.00 higher, spots 4.00
higher. Slaughter bullocks
and slaughter bulls steady to
$2.00 higher. High Choice &
Prime YG 34 slaughter
steers 58.50-60.00; Choice YG
24 57.00-59.75; Good 53.00
57.00; Standard 49.50-54.00.
Choice YG slaughter heifers
55.00- Good 51.00-55.00;
few Standard 50.00-52.75.
Utility & Commercial
slaughter cows 45.00-52.75,
Cutters 42.0049.00, Canner &
low Cutter 40.0045.00. Choice
slaughter bullocks 56.50
60.50, Good 54.00-58.80. Yield
Grade il, 1000-2200 lbs. 50.00
60.00, Yield Grade #2, 900
1600 lbs. 48.00-56.00.
FEEDER CATTLE: Good
& Choice 300-800 lbs. steers
58.0069.50.
CALVES 2686. Compared
to 3500 last week and 3184 a
ago. Vealers steady to
5.00 higher. Prime vealers
100.00- few 130.00;
Choice 82.00-104.00; Good
72.00- Standard & Good
90-120 lbs. 70.00-78.00; 70-90
lbs, 60.00-72.00, Utility 50-100
lbs. 45.00-63.00.
FARM CALVES: Holstein
Bulls 90-120 lbs. 72.00-104.00.
Holstein Heifers 85-130 lbs.
71.00- few 130.00.
All things
considered
HEREFORD
FOR ASSISTANCE
IN LOCATING
HEREFORD BULLS
OR FEMALES
No Cost...No Obligation
Contact Your American
Hereford Association
Field Representative
RICKHICKENBOTTOM
715 Hereford Drive
Kansas City, Mo. 64105
816/842-3757
AREA:
New York, Pennsylvania,
New England.
HOGS 4757. to
6727 last week and 3575 a
year ago. Barrows and gilts
unevenly steady. US No. 1-2
200-240 lbs. barrows & gilts
53.00-55.00, No. 1-3 200-250
lbs. 52.00-54.00, No. 2-3 190-
265 lbs. 49.00-53.00, No. 1-3
140-190 lbs. 45.00-53.00. SOWS
mostly steady. US No. 1-3
300-575 lbs. sows 40.0046.50,
No. 2-3 300650 lbs: 38.00
42.00. BOARS 28.00-40.00.
FEEDER PIGS 534.
Compared to 1474 last week
and 983 a year ago, highly
uneven. US No. 1 ; 3 2035 lbs.
feeder pigs 18.00-36.00 per
head, No. 1-3 35-50 lbs. 25.00-
48.00, No. 1-3 5080 lbs. 48.00
62.50.
GRADED FEEDER PIGS
2850. ALL SALES CWT.
Compared with 2879 head
last week, and 2072 head a
year ago. Feeder pigs $3.00
8.00 higher, spots 12.00
higher. US No. 1-2 2540 lbs.
130.00- 40-50 lbs.
111.00- 50-60 lbs.
103.00116.00; 6090 lbs. 73.00
101.00, US 2-3 35-50 lbs. 91.00
115.00. 5065 lbs. 78.00108.00.
SHEEP 198. Compared to
380 last week and 184 a year
ago. Wooled slaughter lambs
strong to mostly 2.00 higher.
Choice 70105 lbs. 62.5075.00,
Good 60100 lbs. 54.0065.00.
Slaughter ewes 25.00-38.00.
Market courtesy of USDA.
Oklahoma
Cattle
December 28,1978
Thursday feeder cattle
auction and weekly sum
mary cattle and calves:
1006.
Cattle Auction:
CHOOSE THE MODEL FOR YOUR NEED
St 1-2 & 3-4Vz - 35 hp. HR 2-3-4 & 6-1 7-1 13 hp.
SR 2-12 hp.
As is $550
Completely rebuilt $1350
CALL HORNING’S WAREHOUSE 717-3544158 or
IF NO ANSWER CALL 717-3544374
SMUCKER’S
ENGINE SHOP
RD 1, GORDONVILLE, PA.
SALES & SERVICE
DIESEL & GAS
Moderately active, trading
little more than a clean up
affair, represented classes
near steady; majority
receipts Choice and mixed
Good and Choice 300650 lbs.
feeder steers and 300600 lbs.
feeder heifers; moderate
attendance of buyers.
FEEDER STEERS:
Choice, few Prime, 300400
lbs. 81.5066.50, small lot 229
lbs. at 88.00; 400-500 lbs.
80.25-84.50; small lot 527 lbs.
at 75.50; few 600-700 lbs.
67.50- few 700-750 lbs.
66.00-69.00; mixed Good and
Choice 300-500 lbs. 76.00
81.50: few 500-775 lbs. 64.25-
69.00.
FEEDER HEIFERS:
Choice, few Prime, 300400
lbs 70.50-74.00, part load 287
lbs. at 75.25 ; 400-500 lbs.
67.50- 500650 lbs. 63.00
67.25, package 710 lbs. at
61.50; mixed Good and
Choice 300-500 lbs. 64.50
66.75; 500-525 1b5.63.50-64.50;
Good 350500 lbs. 63.0063.25;
500-650 lbs. 59.5062.00.
FOR THE WEEK:
Compared to last weeks
close, feeder cattle and
calves poorly tested from
day to day, generally
steady; slaughter cows near
steady on small supplies;
Utility and Commercial 2-3
43.25; Cutter 1-3 41.5043.75;
Canner and low Cutter 40.50
41.75; slaughter bulls very
scarce, few YG 1-2 10001600
lbs. 53.75-56.25. Salable
receipts near 1700 head for
the holiday shortened week
compared to 9990 last week
and 3069 for the comparable
period a year ago. Cows and
bulls numbered near 400
head and comprised 24
percent of the cattle
DVA ISOOSIanzi
As is $550
Completely rebuilt $1350
Jjster)
receipts; feeders made up 75
percent of the supplies.
'Market courtesy of USDa.
Joliet
Cattle
December 28,1978
Friday through Wed.
nesday’s salable receipts
- 5,800, 5 days last week 6,173,
same period last year 7,896’
Trading slow to moderate on
.slaughter steers. Trading
moderately active to active
on slaughter heifers
Average Choice and better
steers closed the week 25 to
50 higher than Wednesay of
last week. Good to average
Choice steers steady to 25
higher. Slaughter heifers 75
to 1.00 higher. €ows 4.50-5.00
higher.
SLAUGHTER STEERS
Mixed high Choice
Prune 3-4, few 5, 1150-1300
lbs. 57.25-57.75 Tuesday, load
4-5 1425 lbs. 58.00 Tuesday,
Wednesday Mixed Good and
Choice 2-3, 1000-1250 lbs
55.00-56.00, some. 56.00-56.50
Tuesday. Part load mixed
Good and Choice holstems
1400 lbs. 51.50 Tuesday.
SLAUGHTER HEIFERS
Mixed Choice and Prime 3-4,
few 5, 950-1100 lbs. 55.00-
56.00, 1 load 56.25 Tuesday;
56.25- 1 load 56.75
Wednesday. Choice 24 900-
1050 >bs 55.00-55.75 Tuesday;
55.25- Wednesday.
Mixed Good and Choice 2-3
800-1000 lbs. 54.00-55.00
Tuesdav 54.25-55.25 Wed
nesday
COWS. Utility and
Commercial 1-3 43.5045.50
Tuesday 44.5046.50 Wed
nesday 15 5049.00 .
Market courtesy of USDA f
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