Livestock market and auction news Belleville Auction Belleville, Pa. Wednesday, January 28 Report supplied by PDA CATTLE 125. Compared with last week’s market, slaughter cows |l-$2.50 higher. Few Good to low Choice slaughter steers 57.25-63.00. Individual Choice slaughter heifer at <56.75. Utility and Commercial slaughter cows 41.5045.10, few 48.10, Cutters 41.0044.10, Canner & Low Cutters 36 00- 40.10, Shells down to 33 00. Yield Grade #1,1085-1390 lbs slaughter bulls 51 10-56.85. CALVES 151 Bulk of A Tribute to the American Farmer A farmer is a man who wears out two pairs of overalls growing enough cotton for one. A farmer can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout and shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire. A farmer starts every year with nothing, loses everything he grows, and at the end of the year comes out even. Nobody knows how he does it. He doesn’t even know himself, What are farmers made of? Farmers are made of bent nails, rusty horse shoes. barbed wire, and held together with calluses. Planting time and harvest season, he finishes his 40-hour week by Tuesday noon then begins to put in another 72 hours. He can make a harness out of hay wire, feed sacks, and shoe scraps. He grows corn and melons mostly to make fat cows. He loads his planter with thousands of HKUBOTA TRACTOR We're looking for work. supply returned to farm. Few Choice vealers 87.50 105, Standard and Good 70-95 lbs. 55.00-63, Utility 50-80 lbs. 40.00- Farm Calves; Hoi. Bulls 85-125 lbs. 64.00-94, few 102; Hoi. Heifers 85-140 lbs. 72.50-127.50. HOGS 307. Barrows and gilts 50 cents-$1.50 lower. US No. 1-2 2-240 lbs. barrows and gilts 41.3542.35, few 42.85, No. 1-3 2-250 lbs. 39.7541.35, lot No. 2-3 265 lbs. at 38.75, No. 1-3 185-195 lbs. 36.50 39.00. US No. 1-3 3-550 lbs. sows 35 0041.50, few No. 2-3 3-600 lbs. 30.00-35.00. Boars 28.00- FEEDER PIGS 302. 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SLAUGHTER STEERS; High Choice and Prime 3-4 1175-1400 lbs. 62.50-65 00, few 65.00-66.50, few lots mostly 4 61.60-63.00; Good and Choice 1-2 1025-1450 lbs. 64.75-67.25, around 40 head 67.00-70.00; To Heat a BIG Building * ESHLAND HIGH CAPACITY COMMERCIAL COAL-WOOD BOILERS & HOT AIR FURNACES P.O. BOX 23 GREENCASTLE, PA 17225 717-597-3858 dollars worth of seed, fertilizer, herbicide, and insecticide. That’s one hour’s worth. In a normal farm afternoon, 1 to 10 p.m., he'll bury thousands more in the ground in half a day. Odds are it'll get too wet or too dry or there’ll be hail, wind, early frost, early snow, bugs, brackbats, and bureaucrats. And IF he gets a good crop, he won’t meet expenses. Yet the only lines on a farmer's face are from gnnnin’. He buries last year's disappointments with springtime plowin’ because his faith is not in himself alone. He'll finish a hard week’s work with a five-mile drive to church. And so he plants in hope, cultivates in faith, and ends in debt then starts over with greater hope and stronger faith. He thrives on hard work„and has a profound love a reverence for the land he tills. Choice 3-3 1000-1250 lbs. 62.25- few 65.0 D-65.75; Choice 34 1225-1450 lbs. 59.25- high Good and low Choice 2-3 1000-1225 lbs. 60.75-63.75, few 64.00-64.85, Good 2-3 56.0061.00; Good and Choice 1150-1450 lbs. holstems 56 50-59.50, Stan dard 1-2 54.00-57.00. SLAUGHTER HEIFERS: Choice 2-3 900-1250 lbs. 59.00 63.00, few Yield Grade 2 63.00-64.50; Choice 34 850 1250 lbs. 56.7560.50; Good 2-3 850-HOOIbs 56.00-60.00. COWS: Utility and Commercial 1-3 44.00-48.00, few 48.50-51.00, Commercial 3-4 41.00-44 50, Cutter 1-2 42.50-47.00, few 47.00-48.50, Canner and low Cutter 39.75- i y f- 3 ' i * ( Ci mcasttr Farming, Saturday, January 31,1581—A13 43.00. BULLOCKS: Choice 950 1300 lbs. 61-0065.50, few 35.5067.25; Good 10001250 lbs. 53.2569.50. BULLS. Yield Grade 1 14001950 lbs 56.5061.50 few 61.5065.50, individual 1940 lbs. 66.75; Yield Grade 2 10001450 lbs. 51.75-56.50. VEAL CALVES: Prune special fed vealers 300360 lbs. 5.006.00 lower, Choice 120250 lbs. fully steady; high Good and low Choice 80115 lbs. 3.006.00 lower. Demand good tor calves returned to farm. VEALERS. Prune special fed 290-380 lbs. 88.00-100.00, few 100.00-105.00; Choice 120- 300 lbs. 90.00-110.00, few 140- 190 lbs. 112 00-119.00; high Good and low Choice 130-230 lbs. 75.00-90.00, 80-115 lbs. 56.00- few 100-115 lbs 66.00- 6060 lbs 50.00- 60 00 Apple holdings slip 4% HARRISBURG - Penn sylvania apples in cold storage on December 31, 1980 totaled 217,713,000 pounds, down 9,319,000 pounds or four percent from a year ago, according to the Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service. Of that total, which con verts to 5,184,000 bushels at 42 pounds each, York Im perial applies comprise the largest variety in cold storage for processing at Broiler placements jump 9% HARRISBLRG - Placements of broiler chicks in the Commonwealth during the week enduig January 17 were 2,381,000, accormg to the Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service The placements wre nine percent above the corresponding week a year earlier and four percent above the previous week Average placements during the past nme weeks were six percent above a year earlier Placements in the 21 key poultry producing states were 79,347,000, slightly below the previous week but two percent above the same week a year ago Average HYDRO-HEATER Wood or Coal with Water or Air Did You Knew A Hydro Heater is your "first” step toward a solar heated home - works with solar panels and water storage. * WOOD ONLY: (k $ 950 COAL & WOOD: *1145 ★ CALL ABOUT THE CONESTOGA HOT AIR INSERT, INSTALLS IN A SNAP! J&ASTOVES 3752 East Newport Road, Gordonvilie, PA 17529 Along Rt. 772 - Vz Mile East of Intercourse Phone 717-768-8913 RETURNED TO FARM: Bulk 85-115 lbs. hoistem bulls 75.00- few 98.00-100.00; bulk 95-120 lb. hoistem heifers 100.00-136.00, few 136.00- several 70-90 lbs. 65.00-100.00. Eastern Pa. & N. J. Poultry Wednesday, January 28 Report supplied by USDA Prices on light type hens unchanged. Processor demand fairly good for adequate farm offerings. Offerings of heavy type adequate for a fair but unaggressive call. Prices paid at Farm. Lightweight at farm; 9-10, mostly 9% FOB plant. 12-13, mostly 12% Heavyweight Too Few To Report. 1,526,000 bushels, York Imperial applies are followed by Red Delicious apples at 990,000 bushels, Rome apples at 880,000 bushels and Golden Delicious apples at 724,000 bushels. Apples in cold storage in the continental United States on December 31,1980 totaled 76.713.000 bushels, up 10.281.000 bushels or 15 percent from a year ago. placements during the past nine weeks were four per cent above a year earlier Broiler-fryers slaughtered in Pennsylvania under federal inspection during the week ending January 7 totaled 1,524,000, with an average liveweight of 422 pounds
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