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feeder Calf Sale
pmmaries Reported
"Successful” is the name tag put on Virginia’s 1952 series of feeder calf sales, in spite of falling prices. K. C. Williamson, associate animal husbandman at VPI, in a just-completed summary of the sales, says a total of 20,119 calves were auctioned off at the 24 events of the state, the calves sold averaged 440 pounds per head . . . only 8 pounds under 1951 average weights.
Reversing past trends, heifers sold for $406 per cwt, under steer calves. During the past few years heifers have averaged along with, and sometime outsold, steers because of the demand for heifer calves to go back to the farms. However, in 1952 the 12,983 steer calves, averaging 451 pounds sold for an average of $29.06, resuming their producers $131.13 per head. The 7,408 heifers calves averaged 420 pounds and sold for $25 per cwt. returning their discontented producers $105.07 per head. In 1951 steer calves brought $39.49, heifers $39.22.
Twenty-eight bulls or stags finished out the total of 20,419 calves which exceeded by 419 the number advertised.
The Charlottesville Sale topped all prices with a steer average of $31.64 and a heifer average of $31.67. Charlottesville and Danville were the only two sales where heifers outsold steers. »
Rappahannock county’s all-Angus sale, held at Front Royal, had 76 per cent of the calves in the fancy and choice pens, topping all other sales in this respect... '
At Winchester, 3,250 calves were auctioned, making that the largest organized feeder calf sale east of the Mississippi. Almost a half million dollars changed hands that day, with the gross income of the sale amounting to $402,388.79.
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