Live Poultry Prices and Demand in Philadelphia Trade
May 21 report shows unsettled supplies yet ample for fair demand with strongest interest in top quality heavy hens caponettes and caponetted fryers. May 20 receipts 98 000 lb including 3 000 lb Maryland and 28 000 lb Delaware with wholesale prices listed for Belfrey heavy tripe 3-4 lb 22-25 and various headweights for pullets hens roosters ducks Pekin and young turkeys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Maryland
Delaware
Belfrey
April Chick Hatch Drops From Year Earlier
April chick hatching shows a 13 percent drop from April 1957 with 1 543 000 light breed poults hatched. Heavy breed poults and eggs in incubators also declined, with first four months of 1958 down 14 percent from the prior year and May 1 inventory off 13 percent for light and seven percent for heavy eggs. Whites lead the decline in heavy breed output.
Philadelphia Eggs Prices Steady Demand Light Receipts
Philadelphia May 21 steady demand described as far with supplies ample for day to day needs. Retail prices per dozen in cartons show Grade A large white mostly 50 51 cents and Brown 50 51, other sizes varied. Receipts May 20 totaled 8 000 cases by truck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
A & US
Little Children Frequent Victims Of Pesticides
Pennsylvania Farm Safety Institute in Hershey heard that three of four accidental pesticide deaths involve children under ten, with 90 percent under age five. Expert Dr. Dreesen urged safe storage and label adherence to prevent harm, amid Farm Safety Week plans and election of officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hershey
Pennsylvania Farm Safety Institute
Jack Dreesen
National Agricultural Chemicals Association
Washington, D. C
Dreesen
United States
Pennsylvania
Delmar K. Myers
Bureau of Foods and Chemistry
State Department of Agriculture
Pennsylvania Farm Safety Council
Harold T. Howell
Harrisburg Patriot Farm
Frank Anthony
State College
R. N Benjamin
New Cumberland
Norman F. Reber
Pennsylvania Farmer
Loyal D Odtliner
Pennsylvania Chain Store Council
Howell
L H Bull
State
Nershey
Ralph Patterson
Penn State University
Institute
Milton Hershey Farms
Vegetable Seed Prospects Down Sharply in 1958
Growers report plans to harvest 98 094 acres of vegetable seeds in 1958, down from 144 273 acres in 1957. If realized and yields hold, production would be about 119.6 million pounds, 37 percent below 1957 and 46 percent under the 1952 56 average.
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Crop Reporting Board
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Fry
John Fry
Hollinger RD
Lancaster
Keystone Hatchery
Daniel R. Myer
Leola
Ephrata
Ralph F. Kline
S. Broad St
Lititz, PA
Hubeapo
Bayete
Wean Borg
Hubbard Chicks
Hubbard
Loycery Hubbard
Rancaster PA
Manheim Pike
Hubbard Farms
USDA
New Turkey
Porche Diesel
Snavely’s Farm Service
New Holland
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