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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1958
Page
10
Delmarva broiler market shows unsettled conditions with very light trading and moderate to heavy offerings. Farm prices for 17-18 lb broilers hover around 16. -17.90 with multiple daily totals and regional figures across Oct 29 to Nov 4.
The Fourth Annual Lancaster Stock Yards Feeder Calf sale drew 500 plus area breeders with 347 head averaging 34.75 per hundredweight and a total of 56,098.17. Top consignor Robert G. Cables of Reisters town and Fred Frey Jr of Quarryville RD 2 led bids as a fancy Angus steer brought 62 per hundred, while fourteen choice Shorthorns sold at 38.50 per hundred.
Assistant County Agent Frank E Bortz notes early-maturing pullets do best when housed with laying pullets in the same pens. A unified feeding system suits all, while immature birds lag in production and are driven from feed and water, spending more time on roosts.
Lancaster Union Stock Yards and Penna Livestock and Allied Industries Association co sponsored the sale. Forty nine choice Herefords sold for 35.12 and 61 heifers averaged 2.33. Ninety four choice Angus brought 3450 and 74 good Angus 32.74 while 30 good Herefords 36.31. William Bixler sales manager called this year’s event the best of the four held.
Hogs trading active with barrows and gilts up 25-50 cents and sows steady. Prices show 180-240 lb barrows and gilts at 20.50-21.50, 190-230 lb at 21.50-22.00, and 22.25-22.50 for mostly No. 1 grades. sows 15.18. Sheep market active with woolled slaughter lambs 23.25-24.75, good and choice 75-95 lb at 23.25-24.75, utility and low good 19.75-23.50.
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