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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1959
Page
12
On Yard page 2, prices for varied loads of cattle and calves are listed. Weights range from 490 to 1000 pounds with categories including utility, standard, good, choice, and prime, noting feeding steers and stocker calves with prices from 25 to 34.50 per hundredweight.
Delmarva reports show broiler volume with prices around 16 cents and weekly totals. Georgia Poultry Exchange moved hundreds of thousands of head daily with prices in the mid teens, while private sales tracked similar ranges. Egg production per layer rose 6 percent to a March U. S. average of 19. Patronize Lancaster Farming Advertisers.
Lyon Brook Wallie Queen, a leading Holstein sire praised for milk production, is now available to area dairymen through William H. Walker’s artificial breeding service in Quarryville. The six year old bull was bought by Curtiss Improved Stud Service in Gary Indiana. dam Hamaret Queen Prospector holds multiple 30 000 pound milk records. The dam has a world record 35 564 pounds of milk and 1319 pounds fat at 642 years. Wallie Queen shows first ten daughters increasing production compared to dams. Federal Farm Credit Board elected Earl H Brockman of Idaho as chairman for one year at its Washington DC meeting. L V Ritter of Marked Tree Ark named vice chairman and J M Seby of Silver String Md re elected secretary.
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