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For a rough comparison, £t Virginia auctions the some week, market graded good and choke steers brought $24 to $26.75 and good andihoke heifers $21 &o $24.75.^ I 'Vp get your cattle in the sales, iall your County Agent or the yirginia Department of Agriculture’s Division of Markets.
!f you haven’t sold cull cows,, i« good time. Cows at Virginia cions last Week averaged $16.25 h commercial grade at $19.75,'’ ity at $17.75 and cutters and iiers at $15. HOGS log prices will do well to hold r own during the next couple pf weeks. Although this is the seai when hog prices usually take upward turn, prospects are not encouraging right now. Slaughter has been running bew last year’s level since August, iut Novmbcr reports show that laughter has crept up to where it’s just about last year’s level. Some the hogs in the under three mths age category reported in le nine corn belt states on Sep•r 1 should begin moving to irket soon. These nine states rated/and 18% increase if) this up so it could mean the start a period of heavier movement, in Richmond buyers were payg $19.25 to $19.75. This was unchanged to 25 cents higher compared with the previous week * prices.
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