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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1955
Page
3
The Virginia Department of Agriculture cautions prices are unpredictable. Hog prices near bottom suggest little upside before holiday demand, with observers expecting muted movement as the season approaches.
Market notes suggest buyers should sell heavy hogs by 200 pounds as discounts rise, with demand in western Virginia for home slaughter and auctions driving a short term trend. Broilers may strengthen in January while eggs, turkeys, and beef prices respond to holiday demand. cattle and hogs show mixed price signals across Baltimore and New York trading floors.
Chicago markets opened with Wheat posting a firm trend while corn oats rye and soybeans showed irregular early action. Slow dealings across pits with Dec Mar May and July contracts listed for Wheat Corn Oats and Rye along with old and new Soybean contracts and prices from Dec to Sep.
Hog prices range from 9.00 to 14.80 per hundredweight with choices from 175 to 300 pounds. Veal, lambs, slaughter cattle, stock-feeder cattle and other livestock are listed with price ranges and weight categories for buyers and sellers.
Agriculture Dept market shows demand fair to good with turkeys steady or firm. Heavy type turkey supplies are very scarce while farm prices reflect a 72 hour period ending noon today. Egg market reports Grade A large and medium in U S standards with varied prices by grade and size. Ownership of Sherlock Holmes rights rests with the Arthur Conan Doyle family trust with Adrian Conan Doyle as principal executor.
Virginia corn shortages pushed local prices higher last week with Richmond rising eight cents to 1.22 per bushel, Norfolk edging up and likely to rise further, and the Valley trading around 1.30 to 1.40, near Midwest levels once freight is considered.
Market listings show prices for feed and grain products in Rockingham and Augusta areas with figures for corn wheat barley and flour. The text includes wholesale butter figures and a brief historical aside noting limited European paper usage before the 12th century.
In Masonry the term Ma son at Sight means all degrees are conferred at one time. President Taft received the Three Degrees in Kilwinning Lodge No 385 Cincinnati Ohio on February 18 1909. Grand Master Charles S Hoskinson shortened the ceremonies to complete the conferral in a single occasion.
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