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cation of supplies.
Cotes should be fed to hit the spring price peak usually arriving in June, if you are culling your herd. Normal seasonal .pattern probably will continue.
Calves also can be counted on to follow the trend of the last few years, with prices reaching a peak around the end of the year and dropping to mid-summer when supplies are heaviest. Sell as early as possible foY best prices.
Sheep should be dependable money makers in 1957, if you can lick the dog problem. U. S. numbers are not showing any increase. Virginia’s are. Prices should be as good as in 1956, maybe better.
Thev should also peak sharply about May, then fall 'off sharolv. A week or so difference in sellling time can mean real money.
If vou plan expansion, remember there will be better jupplies1 of good domestic ewes in Virginia’s organized ewe sales.
lIogs should hit in 1957. Buy all the pigs vou can feed. Midwest farmers still have not recovered from 1955 low prices. Intentions to farrow indicate a 2 per cent smaller spring pig crop, and per capita supplies of pork are alreadv at the lowest point since 1938. Now is a good time to start looking for pigs.
Prices probably Will show a relatively steady rise until a MarchApril peak, then dip and rise again to a secondary peak in August.
Broilers don’t show any signs of bouncing back to 25-30 cents, and with integration progressing
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