Hog Markets
New Holland
Feeder Pigs
A Wednesday, April 14
supplied by USDA
Feeder Pigs
Today
Last Wednesday
Last Year
TREND: Compared to last
Wednesday, feeder pigs 10.00-20.00
lower. All pigs weighed on arrival
and sold fay the hundred weight
US 1-2: 320 head 25-40 lbs. 106.00-
121X0; 27 bead 25 lbs. 132.00; 379
head 40-50 lbs. 99.00-115.00; 42 head
40 lbs. 122.00; 118 head 50X0 lbs.
96.00-103.00; 24head71 lbs. 84.00.
US 2-3: 30-40 lbs. 117.00-120.00;
47-58 lbs. 84.00-95.00; 12 head 06 lbs.
76.00.
Lancaster
Feeder Pigs
m Tuesday, April 13
Report supplied by USDA
Today
Last Tuesday
Last Year
TREND: Compared to last
Tuesday, feeder pigs steady to
mostly 5.00 higher. All pigs
weighed on arrival and sold by the
hundred wright.
US 1-2: 63 head 20-30 lbs. 152.00-
155.00; 231 head 3040 lbs. 139.00-
150.00; 273 head 4040 1b5..116.00-
144.00; 79 head 5000 lbs. 99.00-
111.00; 86 head 60-70 lbs. 83.00-
92.00; 36 head 70-90 lbs. 70.0044.00.
J.M. HOOBER Inc.
LANCASTER STOCKYARDS
Your Livestock Broker Since 1895
• Up-to-date market information.
• Commission Agents for slaughter cattle, fat
hogs, calves, lambs, feeder pigs
• Suppliers of feeder cattle.
Consign your livestock to J.M. Hoober,
Inc., and receive personal care & service.
PH: (717) 397-6191 - Home 569-2084
Hog Dept. 626-8653
You Have A Choice
If you miss Monday, than is always Wednesday
Todav, as In the past, Walter M. Dunlap and
Sons oners all cattle feeders the choice of what
#y to market their fat cattle.
Either Monday Wednesday, we will advise
yon to the best of our ability what day that week
we think Is most advantageous to you.
So; Monday or Wednesday, yon have a choice.
Give us a call for market conditions and honest
advice.
NEXT FEEDER PIG SALE
Tuesday, Mar. 9 at 1:00 P.M.
Walter K Dunlap and Sons
m Lancaster Stockyards
• Tel. (717) 397-5136
An Old Line Commission Firm
Keeping Abreast With The Times
Lancaster Hogs
Lancaster Stockyards
Monday, April 12
Report supplied by USDA
HOGS: Compared to last
Wednesday, barrows and gilts
steady to .25 higher.
1010
BARROWS AND GILTS: US 1
210-235 lbs. 54.50X5.50, few 56.00;
US 1-2 210-245 lbs. 53.85X4.25; US 2-
3 200-255 lbs. §3.50X3.75.
SOWS: US 1-3 300-150 lbs. 48.50-
48.50; US 2-3 450X00 lbs. 49.50X1.50.
Tneaday, April 13
Report supplied by USDA
Today
Last Tuesday 564
HOGS: Compared to Monday,
barrows and gilts steady.
BARROWS AND GILTS: US 1
210-235 lbs. 55.50; US 1-2 210-245 lbs.
53.50-54.25.
Wednesday, AprQ 14
HOGS: Compand to Tuesday,
barrows and gilts .25 to .50 higher.
BARROWS AND GILTS: US 1.
few 210-235 lbs. 55.25-56.00; US 1-2
210-245 lbs. 54.10-54.50, few 54.75;
US 1-3 200-255 lbs. 53.75-54.00.
1429
1015
New Holland Hogs
Monday, April 12
Report supplied by USDA
Today 1206
Last Monday 1350
Last Year 1455
TREND: Compared to last
Monday, barrows and gilts 1.00-
1.25 higher.
BARROWS AND GILTS: US 1-2
210-245 lbs. 54.00-55.00; US 1210-240
lbs. 55.00-55.50; US 1-3 245-260 Ifes..
53.50-54.00.
Indiana Auction
Homer City, Pa.
Thursday, April 15
Report supplied by PDA
CATTLE: 114. Compared with
- last week’s market:Sl. cows
steady. SI. steers: Good 56.00-
61.00; Standard 50.00-56.00. SI.
cows: Utility fc Commercial 40.00-
44.25; Cotters 36.5tM1.25; Canner
k L. Cutter 32.00-37.00; Shells down
to 28.50. SI. bulls: Few Yield Grade
N0.,1,1270-1675 lbs. 47.7551.75.
FEEDER CATTLE: Steers, few
Medium Frame No. 1, 400-600 lbs.
55.00- Heifers, Medium &
Large Frame No. 1, 315-500 lbs.
49.35-57.00. Bulls, Few Medium &
Large Frame No. 1, 505640 lbs.
48.00-
CALVES: 66. Vealers Good &
Choice mostly 5.00 higher. Stan
dard & Good grades about steady.
Choice 94.00-106.00; Good 83.00-
93.00, 90-120 lbs. 50.0061.00. 6565
lbs. 34.00-50.00.
FARM CALVES: Hoi. Bulls 90-
130 lbs. 60,0060.00.
HOGS: 74. Few US No. 1-2 200-235
lbs. 53.00-54.25; No. 16 200-250 lbs.
51.5063.25; Few No. 26 230-250 lbs.
50.5061.50; Few No. 16185-190 lbs.
49.7550.25; Sows few US No. 16
365605 lbs. 48.2550.75. Few Boars
35.0038.00.
FEEDER PIGS 27. No report.
SHEEP: 11. Individual Choice
spring lamb 40 lbs. at 80.00; lot
Good & Choice 93 lbs. wooled
lambs 56.50.
New Holland
Dairy
New HolbuuM’a.
Wednesday, April 14
Report supplied by auction
Reported receipts of 79 cows, 157
heifers, and 7 bulls. Market steady.
Load of Pa. fresh cows, 835.00-
900.00; Load of Pa. fresh cows,
700.00- Load of Butler
County springers, 1025.00-1250.00;
Load of NY purebred & grade
cows, 1075.00-1575.00, springers
1075.00- Load of Pa.
purebred cows, 950.00-1640.00.
Locally consigned cows 385.00-
1400.00; Springing heifers 610.00-
1175.00; Open heifers 270.00640.00;
Bulls 280.00670.00.
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Report supplied by USDA Estimated Dallylivestock Slaughter
Under Federal Inspection
CALVES HOGS SHEEP
CATTLE
This Week
456,000
Last Week
462,000
Last Year
471,000 33,000
Market courtesy of USDA.
I Chicago Grain Futures
May 2.80
July 2.90 ft
Sept
Oct
Nov.
Dec.
Trend - Com is steady, Wheat is higher. Soybeans are lower, Soybean
Meal is lower.
St. Louis Sheep
Thursday, April 15
Wednesday’s sheep auction.
Receipts about 100 head. Light
supply old crop slaughter lambs
2.00-4.00 higher, but not enough any
class on offer for a full test of
prices.
SPRING SLAUGHTER LAMBS:
Few small lot Choice 57-87 lbs.
52.0066.00.
OLD CROP SLAUGHTER
LAMBS: Couple small lots and
part deck Choice and Prime 105-118
lbs. wooled and shorn with No. 1-2
pelts 61.0064.00. Small lot wooled
125 lbs. 59.00.
BREEDING EWES: Couple
small tots Good 18.00.
Mn this issue
Lancaster Famine, Saturday, April 17,1952-A3
U.S. Inspected
Livestock Slaughter
42,000
43,000
(Closing Bids ai of Thursday Apr. 15)
Soybean
Wheat Soybeans Meal
Corn
3.78 ft
3.88 ft 6.60
4.00
2.9?
Market Provided by Commodity Department
Dean Witter Reynold*, Inc.
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Md. Grange royalty ...
1,210,000 93,000
1,349,000 102,000
1,540,000 96,000
6.49 ft
6.68 ft
Futures
Trading
(Closing Bids as of
Thursday Apr. 15)
Chicago Chicago New York
Cattle Hogs Maine
71.42 53.00 10.29
Apr.
June 67.20 56.70
56.72
Aug.
Oct 61.85
Trend - Cattle are lower, Hogs
are higher. Potatoes are higher.
Market Provided
by Commodity Department
Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc.
834
Dl2
Dl5
D 26
D 26
846
829
C 3
06
032
186.70
191.40
194.70
Potatoes