We Guarantee You Will Like Babcock Bessies
A bold sales pitch promises satisfaction with Babcock Bessies and asserts a guarantee to ensure customer trust. The ad emphasizes confidence and a risk free appeal to buyers.
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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1957
Page
6
A bold sales pitch promises satisfaction with Babcock Bessies and asserts a guarantee to ensure customer trust. The ad emphasizes confidence and a risk free appeal to buyers.
The notice promises satisfaction with Babcock chicks and offers immediate adjustment of losses in chicks or cash. It states all breeders are US pullorum clean and invites customers to write or visit to resolve issues.
The Bodock Hatchery and partners advertise their presence at Booth P4 in the Poultry Exhibit area during the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg from January 13 to 17, 1958. They list contact phones in Lititz Manheim Milford and Milford New Jersey for further inquiries.
Associate county agent Harry S Sloat notes confusion over new Pennsylvania egg carton labeling rules taking effect January 16. Penn State poultry specialist Carl O Dosin will discuss interior egg quality and labeling of quality size and guide. E J Lawless will outline enforcement and penalties at a January 2 Lancaster meeting at the Lancaster Poultry Center.
The County Agricultural Council will meet January 2 at Lancaster County National Bank in Lancaster for the annual election. President LaVerne Pownall urges all members to attend or send an absentee vote due to holiday rescheduling.
Eggs market report from Philadelphia on December 24 notes unsettled demand at current prices and ample supply across all grades. Price ranges in cents per dozen: Grade A large whites 61-64, med 50-55, small 44-48. Browns similar or slightly lower. Grade B large 50-60, brown 50-60. Receipts total 4,800 cases by truck on December 23.
Auction results show bids for White Vantress and other poultry from multiple sellers including Roy E Ream Victor F Weaver Inc and S E Davis. Bids range from 9 2 to 15 cents with totals across hundreds to thousands of birds noted under names such as M and B Lloyd Ream and Raymond Weaver.
Lancaster markets Wednesday bulk goods and choice dealers with hogs up to 50 cents higher on slop weights. Barrows and gilts 190-230 lbs ranged 20.75 to 21.00 per cwt with several small lots at 21.50 and 22. Lamb prices steady. good and choice wooled lambs 21.50 to 24.00, utility and low good 17.50 to 21.50. Sows 1450 to 18.00 per cwt. 300-550 lb sows broader range 14.50 to 18.00. Sheep activity moderate. slaughter lambs steady to fully steady.
Philadelphia market data for December 24 shows ready to cook young chickens and hens with varying demand and supply. Prices paid delivered include Grade A and A A weights, with regional receipts across Maryland Delaware North Carolina and Virginia totaling about 509,000 pounds.
Robert Page chairman of the Lancaster Junior Chamber of Commerce agricultural committee will address the group. He will explain Jaycee programs in agriculture here and in other parts of the country.
Unsettled demand was light and supplies more than adequate on most classes. Fryers were in very slow sale with heavy carryover. Late offerings were at liberal price discounts to clear. Wholesale selling prices No 1 and fancy quality broilers and fryers heavy type 34 lb 21 Pullets 41 4 lb and over 20-23 Hens heavy type 16-21 Ducks Muscovy 38 0 Pekin 30 Turkeys Young hens 37-38 Young Toms 20-22.
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