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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1958
Page
10
About 3.5 million Americans aged 14 and over perform farm work for wages, with around 2 million working 25 days or more and nearly 300 thousand working 400 days or more. The dairy cow is the most efficient calcium producer, yielding ten times more calcium than the hen.
A note explains ordinary barbed wire stretches easily due to its straight form and lack of tension bends, highlighting the tendency to overextend when under strain.
Lancaster markets show steady demand for vealers with good and choice grades at 29 to 36 dollars per hundredweight and standard vealers 20 to 29. Hogs traded slow with barrows and gilts 50 to 75 cents below last week, with No 1-3 weights 190 to 230 pounds quoted around 21 to 22 dollars.
In Delmarva, trading was light with undetermined prices around 19.5 cents for 211,100 head and a steady 3.7 Broiler feed ratio. Georgia and North Carolina reports show prices mostly 1 cent lower with ample supplies. Arkansas and Alabama offer plentiful to fully ample broiler and fryer offerings, with prices around 16 to 18 cents and slight declines noted.
Slaughter spring lambs 70-95 lb sold steady at 23 to 25 dollars. Utility to low good 18 to 25. Fewer culls at 17 to 18. Slaughter lambs 50 to 56 lb traded weaker, lambs 70 to 95 lb active. Hog type and small lots noted with prices 20 to 21.
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