Midwestern Hog Dealers Cited For Packers Act Violations
The US Department of Agriculture issued an order of inquiry against hog dealers Harry L. Sparks and Rex Wanda Sparks for alleged Packers and Stockyards Act violations. Over three years they allegedly sold hogs at incorrect weights, substituted unweighed hogs, issued false scale tickets and freight bills, and charged for services not rendered across stockyards in Illinois and Missouri.
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Harry L. Sparks
Rex Wanda Sparks
Illinois
Missouri
Packers and Stockyards Act
US Department of Agriculture
USDA
Sparks
Bushnell Stock Yards
Bushnell, Ill
St Louis
Poor Pullets Should Be Sold At 7 Months
Associate County Agent Harry Sloat advocates selling pullets that do not mature into good egg producers by seven months or after the flock begins laying 50 percent. These birds profit more as meat and make better market fowl. Culling is a continuous process from hatching to laying, and production efficiency determines which poultrymen stay in business.
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Harry Sloat
Sloat
Hog numbers rise in Canada to 5.3 million
Canada’s hog census shows 5,293,000 hogs on September 1, a 10 percent increase from 4,800,000 a year earlier. Farrowings from September to November 1957 are projected at 264,000, about 36 percent above the prior year.
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Canada
Holstein HIR Records Named by Breed Association
The Holstein-Friesian Association of America released official production records for Holstein cows owned by Lancaster County breeders. Cows include Harold K Book Banks Milked twice daily for 307 days and Roaring Maples Empress Della with 15 394 lbs milk and 605 butterfat as a 33 year old, Isaac M Brubaker Lititz 297 days and 12 567 lbs milk 575 butterfat, Coney Farm Bainbridge 365 days 17 020 lbs milk 556 butterfat, Paul Haby Cochranville 365 days 13 298 lbs milk 492 butterfat, and others listed with farm names and totals.
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Brattleboro, VI
Holstein-Friesian Assa of America
Lancaster County
Harold K Book
Banks
Empress Della
Issac M. Brubaker
Lititz
Bruk Wil Bess
Edith Bondsman
Robert C Groff
Quarryville
Glenelg Maporette
Henry E Kettering
Manheim
Henket Ray Apple Emperor
George A Rutt
Stevens
Hickoryvale
Admiral Sally
Job Stoltzfus
Elverson
Philly Wayne
Bessie Homestead
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Municipal Auditorium
Kansas City
Lester Wiker
Wilker
Pennsylvania
FFA
Ralph Bitler
Nick
Chick
Pasc
Americas
New York
Calif
H&n
Florin Farms
Florin Farms, Inc
Joy
Loncaster County
Penna
Joy Oldfield
Fred Frey
The
World of Agriculture
Lancaster
Lancaster County Farm News
Lancaster Farming Today
Quarryville, Pa
Bill Me
Breed Association
Earl Lamble
Atglen
Rebel Maid
M M Wenger
Emperor Millroad Fay
Limestone
Paradise, PA
Mount Hope
Mark C. Hershey
Lebanon
Berkley Products
Akre
P. O. Box
Ephrata, Pa
Consumer
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