New Holland Hogs
New Holland Sales Stables
Monday, August 20
Report supplied by USDA
Today
Last Monday
Last Year
TREND; Compared to last
Monday barrows and gilts steady.
BARROWS AND GILTS; US 1-2
210-250 lb. 54.00-54.50, few 54.75-
55.10. US 1 210-250 lb. 56.75-58.50.
US 1-3 200-265 lb. 200-265 lb. 53.50-
54.00.
Lancaster Feeder Pigs
Tuesday, August 21
Report supplied by USDA
Today
Last Tuesday
Last Year
TREND: Compared to last
Tuesday feeder pigs under 40 lb.
mostly steady, 40-70 lb. 3.00-10.00
higher. All pigs weighed on arrival
and sold by the hundred weight.
US 1-2: 62 head 18-28 lbs. 87.00-
105.00; 77 head 34-39 lbs. 76.00-
94.00; 207 head 40-49 lbs. 77.00-
95.00; 146 head 50-59 lbs. 71.00-
86.50; 41 head 61-66 lbs. 64.00-75.00.
US 2-3: 18 head 30-39 lbs. 80.00-
83.00; 41 head 40-49 lbs. 57.0068.00;
9 head 51 lbs. 72.00 ; 25 head 71 lbs.
62.00.
New Holland
Feeder Pigs
Wednesday, August 22
Report supplied by USDA
Today
Last Wednesday
Last Year
TREND: Compared to last
Wednesday feeder pigs unevenly
steady. All pigs weighed on arrival
and sold by the hundred weight.
US 1-2: 102 head 20-39 lbs. 78.00-
87.00; 92 head 27-39 lbs. 60.0005.00;
68 head 40-49 lbs. 69.0000.00; 138
head 5059 lbs. 64.00-78.00; 30 head
62-63 lbs. 64.0006.00; 5 head 74 lbs.
56.00.
US 2-3: 40 head 3039 lbs. 53.00
64.00 ; 21 head 52 lbs. 54.00.
Lancaster Hogs
Lancaster Stockyards
Saturday, August 18
Report supplied by auction
700 head.
BARROWS AND GILTS: US 1
220-250 lb. 55.5059.00; US 1&2, 220
250 lb. 54.5055.50; US 1&3 220250
lb. 53.75-54.50; Lightweight hogs,
195-220 lb. 50.0053.00.
SOWS; All weights, 38.0045.00.
ATTENTION
hog producers
Now you have a choice of marketing your fat hogs on any
one of 4 days a week through Walter M. Dunlap and Sons.
The starting times for each day are as follows:
Monday at 11 A.M., Tuesday at 10 A.M., Wednesday and
Saturday at 8 A.M.
Consign your fat hogs to Walter M. Dunlap and Sons
where they will be handled by experienced and capable
personnel. All hogs weighed upon arrival.
For market information contact Ken Smoker or Ollie
Nagle at 717-397-5136.
FEEDER PIG SALE
Every Tuesday - Starting at 1 P.M.
NOTICE; CLOSED SAT., SEPT. Ist
Business As Usual Mon., Sept. 3rd (Labor Day)
Walter M. Dunlap and Sons
Lancaster Stockyards
_ Tel. (717) 397-5136
An Old Line Commission Firm keeping Abreast
With The Times
Indianapolis Hogs
Thursday, August 23
Report supplied by USDA
800. Barrows & gilts active, .75
higher.
BARROWS & GILTS: US 1-2 210-
255 lb. 53.25-53.75.
SOWS: Moderately active,
compared to Tuesday steady to
1.00 lower. (8%) US 1-3 400-500 lb.
43.50-46.50; 500-625 lb. 46.00-48.00.
BOARS: Under 250 lb. 42.00;
over 350 lb. 36.00-37.00.
1677
1515
2020
St. Louis Hogs
Thursday, August 23
Report supplied by USDA
3500. Barrows & gilts moderately
active, fully steady.
BARROWS & GILTS: US 1-2 230
260 lb. 52.50-52.75, several 52.75,
around 180 head 52.85; 220-230 lb.
52.00-52.50; 210-220 lb. 51.5052.00.
US 1-3 200-210 lb. 51.00-51.50; 260
270 lb., mostly 52.00, few 51.50; 270
290 lb. 50.5051.50.
SOWS: Fully steady. (About 7%)
US 1-3 330500 lb. 44.50, few 280330
lb. 45.0046.00, over 500 lb. 45.50
47.50.
BOARS: Over 250 lb. 41.00;
under 250 lb. 45.00.
Peoria Hogs
Thursday, August 23
Report supplied by USDA
2000. Barrows & gilts active,
opening .50 to mostly 1.00 higher.
BARROWS AND GILTS: US 1-2
220250 lb. 53.0053.50. US 1-3 220250
lb. 52.0053.00.
SOWS; Under 500 lb. .50 higher;
over 500 lb. 1.502.50 higher. (14%)
US 1-3 300350 lb. 44.0044.50; 350
500 lb. 43.0044.00; 500650 lb. 46.00
to mostly 47.00, few 47.25-47.50.
576
478
938
Lancaster Hogs
Lancaster Stockyards
Monday, August 21
Report supplied by USDA
HOGS: Compared to last
Wednesday barrows and gilts .SO
LDO lower; sows steady to .50
lower.
BARROWS AND GILTS; US 1-2
215-250 lb. 54.25-54.75, few 55.00-
55.35. US 1 215-250 lb. 55.75-57.00,
few 57.00-58.00. US 1-3 215-265 lb.
53.00-54.00; 200-215 lb. 52.00-53.00.
SOWS: US 1-3 350-650 lb. 44.50-
46.50.
Tuesday, August 22
Today
Last Tuesday
Last Year
TREND: Compared to Monday,
small supply barrows and gilts
mostly steady.
BARROWS AND GILTS: US 1-3
210-260 lb. 53.00-54.00. US 1-2 Few
215-240 lb. 54.00-54.50.
Wednesday, August 23
HOGS; Compared to Monday
barrows and gilts .50-1.00 lower.
BARROWS AND GILTS: US 1-2
215-250 lb. 53.50-54.25, 200-215 lb.
50.85-52.75. US 1 215-250 lb. 54.55
55.25. US 1-3 210-260 lb. 52.7553.50.
Morrison Cove
Livestock
Martinsburg, Pa.
Monday, August 20,1984
Report Supplied by Auction
CATTLE 275. High Choice &
Prune slaughter steers 65.2567.25,
one at 69.00, Choice 61.5064.75, Good
56-60.75, Standard 49.75-54.25
Utility 39-46.50. Choice slaughter
heifers 60.2564.25, Good 54.55
58.75, Standard 50.75-53.00, Utility
45-50.25. Breaking Utility &
Commercial slaughter cows 47.15
49.00 Commercial 45-46.25, Cutter
& Boning Utility 40.75-44.25,
Canner & Low Cutter 34.7539.25,
Shells down to 25.00. Choice
slaughter bullocks 54.2556.00,
Good 53.25-50.75, Standard 46-48.50,
Utility 40.75-45.25. Yield Grade No.
1 56-59.00 slaughter bulls, Yield
Grade No. 2 51-54.00.
FEEDER CATTLE: Steers
Choice 305600 lbs. 56-61.00, Good
355600 lbs. 51-54.00, Medium 355
600 lbs. 42-48.00. Heifers Good 3-700
lbs. 51-59.00, Medium 3-700 lbs. 42-
49.00. Bulls Good 3-700 lbs. 51-56.00,
Medium 3-700 lbs. 41-48.00.
CALVES 527. Vealers Prime 81-
86.00, Choice 69-78.00, Good 61-
67.00, Standard & Good 110-130 lbs.
52-57.00, 90-110 lbs. 48-51.00, 70-90
lbs. 42-46.00, Utility 40-60 lbs. 35-
41.00.
F4RM CALVES: Holstein bulls
90-130 lbs. 62-85.00, Holstein heifers
95-115 lbs. 61-76.00.
HOGS 188. US No. 1-2 220-240 lbs.
barrows and gilts 55-55.75, No. 1-3
220-240 lbs. 53.75-54.75, No. 2-3 210-
260 lbs. 52.2553.50, No. 1-3 180-200
lbs. 50.75-51.50,280-350 lbs. 48-50.25.
US No. 1-3 360-680 lbs. sows 46.25-
48.25, No. 2-3 360-680 lbs. 40.50-
44.75. Boars 32.2554.00, Light
weights 35-38.00.
FEEDER PIGS 32. US No. 1-3 25-
30 lbs. feeder pigs 18-24.00 per
head, No. 1-3 35-40 lbs. 26-31.00, No.
1-3 45-65 lbs. 36-45.00 per head.
SHEEP 32. Choice 90-110 lbs. 55-
64.00, Good 80-90 lbs. 42-48.00.
Slaughter ewes 9-18.00.
GOATS 17: 841.00 per head.
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Editorials
Editorially speaking
Cohiwns
Now is the time
On being a farm wife
The Micro Way
Ida’s Notebook
Ladies have you heard 7
Milk Check
Farm Talk
Pork Prose
Brockett’s Ag Advice
Features
Kutztown Fair A2O, 21
Ag Progress A 22
Ag Progress Hay Show A 23
Lancaster Co Weathers’B3 A 27
Claude Hess A2B
Chester Del Pig Show A3l
Venango Sale A 32
FFA Pole Building A 32
RodaleTour A 36
York 4-H Swine D 2
Lebanon Livestock Sales
CATTLE
Week to Date (Est.)
542.000 48,000
Same Period Last Week (Est.)
554.000 48,000
Same Period Last Year (Act.)
529.000 47,000
Aug.
•pt. 3.50 3.44%
Oct.
Nov.
Dec.
Jan. ’B5
Mar. ’B5
May ’B5
July’Bs
Trends - Com - sideways to weaker; Wheat - sideways; Soyl
weaker; Soybean Meal - steady to weaker.
Market Provided by Merrill-Lynch Commodities, York
Aug,
Oct.
Dec.
eb. ’B5
April ’B5
[ay’Bs
Trends - Cattle - steady to weaker; Hogs - steady to weaker; P(
unchanged to sideways.
Market Provided by Merrill-Lynch Commodities, York
fit. this
Four Sections
AlO
D 5
Lancastar Farming, Saturday, August 25,1 1
U.S. Inspected
Livestock Slaughter
Estimated Daily Livestock
CALVES HOGS
Chicago Grain Futures
(Closing Bids as of Thursday, August 23)
Soybeai
Wheat Soybeans Meal
Corn
2.82% 3.58%
3.67
2.89
3.65
2.95
3.50
2.97%
Futures Trading
(Closing Bids as of Thursday, August 23)
Chicago Chicago NY Maine
Cattle Hogs Potatoes
65.10
62.95 46.82
64.15 48.25
64.72 50.95
65.55 47.80
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Home etui Youth
Homestead Notes B 2
Home on the Range B 6
Cook's Question Corner B 8
Kid's Korner 810
Cumberland Corn Festival 811
Cumberland Horse Roundup 812
Columbia/Luzerne dairy show 812
Lehigh Horse Roundup 813
Mercer Dairy Show 813
Fashion Update 814
4-H National Awards 816
Lancaster 4-H Fair 818
Farm Women Calendar 819
Montgomery Co Dairy Show 820
Craft Corner 821
Farm Women Societies 823
Ptiiy
Ag Progress Dairy Sale
Kutztown Dairy Shows
Cumberland Dairy Roundup
Dairy Mineral Needs
Departments
Farm Calendar
Classified Ads
Livestock Latest
Business News
Public Sales
984—1
1,191,000
1,134,000
1,177,000
176.00
6.64%
153.90
6.25%
156.30
6.23%
161.20
6.36
6.50%
6.60%
6.68
3.72
4.64
Al 9
A 24
C 2
C 6
AID
831. C 9
D 2
D 6
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