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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1964
Page
6
Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service notes weekly placements of 765000 broiler chicks in the commonwealth ending December 19 up 12 percent from the prior week and 2 percent year over year. Settings for 1409000 eggs rise 19 percent week to week and 37 percent from a year earlier with a 3 week total up 3 percent.
No report on Delmarva Broilers or New Holland Fat Cattle Sale is available due to the Christmas holiday. Readiness for next business day expected with market updates.
Cattle for cutter and utility ranged 12.00 to 21.25 with a few higher. calves light to heavy showed 1.00 to 34.50. hogs steady to higher with weights 190 to 230 pounds at 18.00 to 19.50 and sows 12.25 to 13.00. Sheep noted as not enough on sale to establish market with light lambs 21.00 to 24.00. Dec 19 hog sale offered 253 head. weights 160 to 240 pounds brought 16.00 to 19.25, with other ranges listed and sons at 10.50 to 14.35.
Chicago day totals show twelve market receipts at 149 000 versus 182 800 last week and 94 300 a year ago. Slaughter steers 1.00 125 higher, heifers 50 to mostly 1.00 up, cows 1.00 1.50 higher, bulls 1.00 higher. In carrot dressed trade steer beef steady to 1.00 higher, heifer beef steady to 1.50 higher, cow beef steady to 1.50 higher.
Christmas will be longer for Mr and Mrs Exvin N Weaver of Leola Ri as they pack for a Mexico City fiesta trip in mid January. Exvin Weaver of M M Weaver Sons Massey Ferguson dealer earned the trip through year long sales performance. The program includes airlift with 300 dealers from 40 points, four day stay in Mexico, and return on aircraft that had just delivered another 300 attendees to a product demonstration.
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