The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-08-10

seed should be around 500 cwt.
imported seed $36 so. There is q
1efinite difference In quality of i'm
ported and domestic crimson clover
and you'll do well to watch the
label.
Production plus carryover is 4f
Der cent above last years supply
so no price increase is likely.
Ladino
Retail price is about SIS cwt
The price will probably stay there.
Brothers
Look for some weakening in
broiler prices this week. It's the
same story-supplies still climbing
and good summertime d m a n d
serving as the only brake on prices.
Virginia. prices were mostly q
cents. North Carolina 49, and Geor-
gia dropped cent to 10.
The outlook into fall isn't any
brighter. Egg sets in the @ broiler
states have leveled out from theil
fairly rapid downward trend of the
past few weeks. which cuts off the
prospect OF any lessening OF sup
plies In November. 1t looks now
like II to % per cent more than last
year. Supplies now are about 20 per
cent above last wear.
Eggs
Eggs will do we'll to hold their
own this week. Production is still
holding up-due probably to wo
reasons: weather has been cooler
than epected in big production
areas. and the trend toward longer
laying birds. leveling out production
ups and downs is being felt.
At the end of June storage hold
ings were II per cent shorter than
last year
Virginia egg markets were
steady last week at As to AZ cents
for Grade A large. while New York
lost 2 IL cents to average AZ l-2
Hogs
Look for little pickup in hog
prices from now TO the end of the
month. After that. If we follow the
slide downward into December. but
will be on a higher level than last
year.
There WAS general increase last
week of Is cents on Virginia mar
kets. 50 cents on Western markets.
Virginia auctions averaged S17.40.
Richmnod Yards. SIPS to $3.50,
Baltimore. sl8 to s1825 and West
ern markets. SIT to l725.
But receipts in the 10 major mar
kcts picked up about per cent
during last week Nearly IL per
cent more hogs were marketed last
week in the IL major markets than
during the same week a year ago
Cattle
Don't put off selling your grass
fed cattle--heifers. cows or steers
any longer than you have to- Selling
them as soon as they reach good
slaughter condition looks like the
wise course.
Both COW and steer prices picked
up slightly last week in Virginia.
Steers picked up SO cents to average
Fl9 90. making total of sl25 up
in the past two weeks. IS cents
above last year. Cow prices we're
IN cents higher in Virginia, 50 cents
above last year
Cows were IS cents to 81 .25 lower
IN Chicago last week after three
weeks of higher prices; steers. 50
to so lower at $23.5 to s27 for
choice and prime; 500 to s23 for
god
Cow and steer prices usually de
cline until about the end Of the
year.
Optimism is evident among cat
lie farmers in Virginia. especall
in areas hit hard by droughts in
previous years First farm-t o-buye'
sales of grass cattle showed prices
about the same as last year. In
Southwest Virginia. some feeders
we're sold last week for delivery in
The fall. present weights SIS to 825,
FOR II Ia to 10 I'D cents: heavier
weights. 1000 to l,l50 pounds, II IA
to 10 cents. In Northern Virginia
bidding was running II to 10 cents
for feeder cattle.