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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1958
Page
6
A ledger of broiler and fowl lots lists buyers and bids with outcomes. Names such as Mellinger H H Weaver Jr and Richard Bom berger appear among cap and belt items, some NO SALE or withdrawals, and prices ranging from 10 to 190 in various caps and weights.
Plymouth area bulletin notes that ten leading Pennsylvania primary breeders placed 2,700,000 pullet chicks in September. This total marks a 40 percent increase over September 1957, reflecting stronger hatchery output in the poultry sector.
Receipts overrunning estimates by about 1,000 head with bulk of supply in daughter lambs and shorn varieties. Slaughter lambs mostly steady to 25 lower with 95 to 106 pound weights and No 1 pelts around 22.50. Slaughter ewes scarce and mostly steady with most bids in the 6 to 8 range.
Farm horse weights and measurements appear for Moore Farms with Warren Mey er and M&B owned by Arthur Spickler. Data includes 750 WR-Fowl at one year, 7000 WV on 9-2, 18-253 Glenn H. Herr with Jacob Fisher Jr., 175 IR-C-Cap, 14-6, and Risser 203.
The ten breeders placed 26,103,000 pullet chicks in the first nine months of 1958, up 4 percent from 1957. The figure includes pullets sold plus those expected from eggs sold, using 125 pullet chicks per case of hatching eggs. Placements for supply flocks show monthly index changes through September.
DHIA test records list area dairymen and cattle tested under Penn State supervision. Entries include owners, animal names, ages, milk production and butterfat, with test periods of 305 or 365 days. Summarized sire Coldspring's Beauty's Lynn, a Guernsey bull with 12 tested daughters and 20 official records, averages 9,653 pounds milk and 450 pounds fat on a mature equivalent basis.
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