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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1956
Page
5
Lancaster July 26 cattle and hogs mixed with steers at top 23.00, average weights 975-4250 lb. hogs up 1.00-1.50. calves and cows varied with veal calves rising to 29.00-34.00 and sows 80.00-100.00. Bulls steady, feeders slow, receipts 2,625 cattle and 1,444 hogs.
Lancaster Poultry Exchange reports Thursday sale 118 with 44 lots totaling 132 240 birds 120 440 offered at 41 dots and 39 sold. Top price Harold Keener Mount Joy 700 White Vantress 10 weeks 2 days for Boltons Dressing Plant Schaef ferstown. Multiple lots of White Vantress Cross Red Vantress and Indian River Cross sold from 9 2 to 23 4 with several consignors including Samuel Grubb and James Hess.
Sixteen lots of 47 300 birds sold on Tuesday with prices from 21 to 25 cents and an average of 23 50. Top lot 2400 White Vantress at 25 sold to C B Russer. sales include many White Cross and Indian River crosses with prices mainly 21 25 cents. Philadelphia market notes weak with adequate supplies. receipts 6 370 cases by truck.
Auction catalog lists multiple poultry lots with breeders and buyers at Indian River Cross. Items include Red and White Vantress and White Rocks birds priced from 11 to 9 per unit, with buyers such as Producers Coop, Til’s Poultry, and Horace W Longacre.
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