AB-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Oecembtr 30, 1995 yCbtD > “rrT“*iT#T" New Year’s Luck Superstitions abound at New Year’s Eve, perhaps more than any other time of year. How you spend your evening and day will predict the year to come, many believe. In many cultures, windows are opened just before midnight to let the bad luck out and wel come in the good luck for the coming year. Noisemakers keep demons at bay. Keep money in your pockets, or you’ll go poor all the year. Kiss the person you hope to keep kissing, and do the thing you hope to keep doing during the year to come. Never hang a calendar before the New Year, lies some of the old year's bad With bounteous cheer, conclude the year! The OIJ Farmer s Almanac cr Hot water with a bit of alcohol will waah window* in winter, and cut through froat. Wipe dry quickly. Cinnamon Crisps 1/3 cup butter 3/4 cup sugar 2 eggs, beaten 1-1/2 cups flour, sifted 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon (Kant) salt 1-1/2 teaspoons cinnamon 1 teaspoon vanilla HOW HAS YOUR CASH Purina Mills, Inc. CFA PROGRAM Offers Stability To Your Marketing OCT. 94 - SEPT. 95 PRICES: PACKER BASE $39.91 /cwt PURINA CFA $46.49/cwt S 3 PURINA MILLS, Inc. 800-873-5300 Manufacturing Facilities; Lancaster, Harrisburg, Hagerstown (2/97), Wyaluslng and Knoxville Boxing Day, Dec. 26 Cream butter and sugar, then stir in eggs. Sift dry ingredients and add, along with vanilla. Chill dough, then roll out on floured surface to 1/8 inch thickness. Cut with cookie cutter and bake on greased cookie sheets at 375° F, about 10 to 12 m minutes. Great with hot i drinks! Makes about 2-1/2 dozen. FLOW BEEN? Call now to got tho dotallt on how you can even your caeh flow with Purina Mills, Inc. CFA Program Report supplied by auction HOLSTEIN HEIFER CALVES 117.50 AND DOWN. VEAL CALVES, NO MARKET TEST. VEALER BULL CALVES TO 120.00. SLAUGHTER CALVES 43.00 AND DOWN. >i'm old FARMER’S NEW CROP LAMBS TO 200.00. LAMBS, NO MARICET TEST. SHEEP. NO MARKET TEST. HOGS 200-250, NONE. SOWS. NONE. BOARS, NONE. PIGS 10.00-28.50. HEIFERS. TO 43.25. STEERS, NO MARKET TEST. FEEDER STEERS 30.00-49.50. BULLS TO 40.25. GOOD COWS 36.00-39.00. COWS MEDIUM 31.00-35.50. COWS POOR OR SMALL 30.50 AND DOWN. CATTLE MARKET HIGHER. CALF MARKET STEADY. HORSES, NONE. PONIES, NONE. GOATS, NONE. OPEN AS USUAL MONDAY. JAN. 1, 1996. WEATHER PROVERBS The weather on Christmas foretells the weather for the coming year. if windy on Christmas, trees will bring much fruit. CATTLE 109.. PDA . STEERS; few Choice 11S0/13S0 lbs. 63.50-68.25, Select 57.00-61.00, few Stan dard 44.50-52.00. HOLSTBINS; one Choice 1470 Ibi. 64.00, few Select SI.SO-SB.SO, one Stan dard 46.00. Snow on Christmas night, good hop crop. HEIFERS; Choice 102S/132S lbs. 63.50-72.00, few Standard SO.OO-52.00. COWS: few Breaking Utility and Com mercial 36.50-39.00, Cutler and Boning Utility 28.00-35.00, Gartner and Low Cut ter 22.00-28.00. Shells down to 18.00. BULLS: few Yield Grade No. 1 1175/2100 lbs. 40.75-45.00, few No. 2 Special Offer Handy chart full of interesting weather proverbs Send $3 to Weather Chart, Dept UF, The Old Farmer's Almanac, Box 520, Dublin, NH 03444 Valley Stockyards Athens, Pa. December 26, 1995 Mercer Livestock MERCER, PA DECEMBER 26, 1995 C.B. HOOBER & SON, INC. I HOOBER EQUIPMENT, INC. Intercourse, PA IMHMMHHHHHHHMMHHHK Middletown, DE (717) 768-8231 ■ m TWO LOCATIONS (302) 378-9555 HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM ALL OF US IN THE PARTS DEPARTMENT . HOOBER & SON INC.: PARTS MANAGER - RICHARD BOMBERGER ASS’T. MANAGER - KEVIN THRUSH ROAD SALESMAN - KENNETH'BEILER ROAD SALESMAN - CARL HERSHEY ROAD SALESMAN - LARRY MILLER ROAD SALESMAN - GARY HAUSEMAN PARTSMAN - ROY WEAVER PARTSMAN - JOHN STONER PARTSMAN - AL YODER PARTSMAN - ROBERT HERR PARTSMAN - RAY SHISSLER PARTSMAN - DICK SKETHWAY PARTSMAN - CALVIN EBY PARTSMAN - ROBERT GROFF PARTSMAN - EARL WALKER PARTSMAN - ROBERT BOOK PARTSMAN - BRAD HERSHEY STOCKMEN - LLOYD GROFF, SANFORD HERSHEY HOOBER EOUIPM] PARTS MANAGER - MIKE NULL ROAD SALESMAN - MARK LOCKWOOD ROAD SALESMAN - SAM NULL PARTSMAN - SALLY AIKEN PARTSMAN - STEVE HANIFEE PARTSMAN - LARRY MOORE PARTSMAN - DAVE NEUGEBAUER PARTSMAN - TONY WYRE PARTSMAN - LEON WALLBERT PARTSMAN - SHAWN HODSON STOCKMAN - LEE HURLOCK STOCKMAN - CHRIS WILLIAMS YOU STAY PUT Pick Up Your Phone And Place Your /Awt Parts 0 port Order 11 With 1000/1725 lbs. 33.00-40.50. FEEDER CATTLE: STEERS: couple Medium Frame No. 1 665 & 815 lbs. 53.00, few Medium Frame No. 2 325/450 lbs. 38.00-49.00; BULLS: couple Medium Frame No. 1585 & 685 lbs. 50.50 & 60.50, few Medium Frame No. 2 375/575 lbs. 38.50-45.00. CALVES 108...VEALERS: Standard and Good 75/110 lbs. 20.00-39.00,55/100 lbs. 10.00-22.00. FARM CALVES: No. 1 Holstein bulls 90/115 lbs. 90.00-117.00 mostly 100.00- No. 2 85/115 lbs. 37.00- few No. 1 Holstein heifers 90/120 lbs. 80.00-95.00, few No. 2 80/105 lbs. 35.00-72.50. Beef cross bulls and heif ers 70/130 lbs. 36.00-54.00. HOGS 60... Barrows and gilts 1.00 higher. BARROWS AND GILTS: US 1-2 230/250 lbs. 45.75-46.75, US 1-3 230/250 lbs. 44.25-45.50. SOWS; few US 1-3 295/640 lbs. 33.50-39.50. FEEDER PIGS 17... US 2-3 20/30 lbs. 10.00. per head. SHEEP I...SLAUGHTER SHEEP; one 19.00. GOATS 0...N0 MARKET TEST! Middleburg Livestock MIDDLEBURG, PA DECEMBER 26, 1995 CATTLE 406.. PDA . STEERS: Choice 107S/ISOO lbs. 63.25- couple to 68.50, Select 58.00- couple 63.50, few Standard 51.25- HOLSTEINS: Choice 1250/1500 lbs. 58.50-60.75, one 62.00, Select 52.00- few Standard 41.00-46.00. HEIFERS: Choice 1040/1340 lbs. 61.00- few Select 55.00-60.00. COWS: Breaking Utility and Commer cial 35.00-39.25, few 40.75, Cutter and Boning Utility 32.00-35.75. few 37.75, Carmer and Low Cutter 28.00-32.25, few down 26.00. Shells down to 21.00. BULLOCKS: one Choice 1300 lbs. 57.50. BULLS: Yield Grade No. 1 1085/1950 lbs. 39.50-51.00, few No. 21080/1650 lbs. 36.75-41.50. FEEDER CATTLE: STEERS; few Large Frame No. 2 635/715 lbs. The Saving Place WE SUP PARTS DAILY " Authorized HCeaUßeWeHeeeli ups station 38.00- CALVES 233...VEALERS: one Choice 75.00, few Standard and Good 75/105 Ibi. 32.00- few Utility 55/85 Ibt. 15.00- FARM CALVES: No. I Holitein built 90/125 Ibt. 85.00-U2.00, No. 2 85/110 Ibt. 50.00-85.00; No. 1 Holitein heifert 90/115 Ibt. 100.00-140.00, few No. 2 75/105 Ibt. 50.00-75.00. Few beef crott built and heifert 65/100 Ibt. 30.00-90.00. HOGS 116... BARROWS AND GILTS: US 1-2 220/265 Ibt. 46.00-48.00, US 1-3 220/270 Ibt. 43.50-45.50. SOWS: US 1-3 350/600 Ibt. 33.00- BOARS: few 25.50. FEEDER PIGS 311... US 1-3 30/50 Ibt. 35.00- Utility 40/70 Ibt. 24.00- per head. SHEEP 28... SLAUGHTER LAMBS: Good and Choice 40/75 Ibt. 91.00-115.00. SLAUGHTER SHEEP: few 15.00-35.00. GOATS 16... Few Large 47.00-52.00, Medium 33.00-47.00. per head. Slaughter (Est. Daily) WASHINGTON, D.C. DECEMBER 27, 1995 Cattle Calves Hogs Wednesday 12/27/95 (est) 129.000 6,000 363,000 Week ago (est) 127.000 6,000 365,000 Year 4go (act) 126.000 6,000 352,000 Week to date (est) 257.000 12,000 704,000 Same Period Last Week (est) 389,000 18,000 1,079,000 Same Period Last Year (est) 251.000 13,000 743,000 Previous Day Estimated Steer and Heif er Cow and Bull Tuesday 99,000 29,000 *Revition on Tuesday's Hog Slaughter... 341,000 ’Revision