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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1917
Page
4
Heavy run of sheep and lambs with a steady to stronger market. Corn fed beeves scarce with 1400-pound bulls at 14.00. 1400-pound Montana cattle at 15.50 highest price on range cattle. Hogs light with tops at 17.00. lambs strong at 16.75 and feeders up to 17.25. Receipts about 28,000 sheep and lambs, 12,00 hogs, steady to higher prices.
A special meeting of the Alliance Volunteer Fire Department approved loaning the swimming pool building behind the city hall to the Box Butte Home Guards for an armory until June 1, 1918. The Guards will heat the building and floor materials were donated by Box Butte County commissioners at their Saturday session.
South Omaha live stock market set a national record when a carload of sixteen corn fed steers sold by Wood Brothers and EF. T. Graham brought $3,916 or $244.75 per head. The sale surpassed prior records by six cents over Chicago and a dollar twenty over Omaha. The branded ranch cattle had spent about six months in Graham’s feed lots.
W B Tagg of the National Live Stock Exchange reports at a Hoover conference that there is little sentiment for price limits on live stock or feed. Hoover warned of possible federal takeover under the food bill but indicated low likelihood. World stock shortages persist with 28 million cattle, 54 million sheep, and 32 million hogs down, prompting expected high prices and demand for breeding stock after the war.
At a conference President Hoover signaled a shift on corn policy noting high prices would curb winter feeding of livestock. He expected corn exports to fall and distilleries to stop purchasing, with a large crop ahead likely reducing prices and improving feed for livestock. He promised a department statement in days outlining increased production and meat conservation strategies with help from the South Omaha Stock Exchange and the National Live Stock Exchange.
A fragment portrays the lark as the sweetest singing bird of Scotland, praising its music above human-made mechanisms. It describes farmers waking early to hear larks, who rise with their song until voices fade into the air.
Nebraska farmers accelerate building programs this fall following record profits. The University of Nebraska Agricultural Engineering Department reports high demand for farm building plans and blueprints, though exclusive designs are limited to demonstration work and stock blueprints offered cheaply.
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