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FRONT ROYAL LIVESTOCK
MARKET
Front Royal, Virginia
January 29, 1959 Hop: top barrows k gilts 16.89 heavy butcher 15-75-16-60; - light butcher 15.75-16.30; butcher rows 14-17; feeder shoats 17-20. Veal: choice & prime 38-40; heavy 35-38.50; light 33-36; good 34-37; standard 27-31; utility down 22. Heavy slaughter calves, good k choice 28-31 standard down 22.
Sheep k lambs: prime 20.70; choice 20-70; good 19.60; utility 16; culls 14. Slaughtei cattle: steers, choice 26.50- 27; good 25-26. Heifers, choice 25-26; good 23.50-24.50; standard 20-22.50; utility down18.50. Cows, commercial 20-22 utility 18.50-19.50; canner k cutter 16-18. Bulls, commercial & good 24.50-25.50; cutter & utility 22.50- 23.50. -
Stock Feeder Cattle: yearling steers, choice & fancy 28-31; good 26.50- 27.50; medium 25-26; inferior & common down 21.
RAPP, CHATS
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Our yields of Alfalfa are low compared to sections where farmers have had more experience in growing the Queen of Forages. Generally speaking; it is felt by the Rappahannock Agronomy Committee that our farmers have the know-how necessary to get a good stand of Alfalfa but need to give more thought to stand maintenance. If you are planning to sow Alfalfa the first point governing longevity of stand is suitable soil type available from roil survey; the second is sowing an adapted variety.
For established stands: NOW_. is top dressing time, with borated 0-10-20 available with granulated heptachlor (for weevil control). Thus you’ll be killing threejbirds with one stone: supplying; a minor element for production of one of the two crops needing it which we grow (apples the other), the major plant food elements it needs to grow and compete against grass
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