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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1944
Page
10
Charleston West Virginia June 29 fishermen faced exceptionally bad luck during the bass season amid storms and a tornado sweep, with local weather creating difficult angling. The state fish commission cited reports from Moore and Marshall counties noting unusually poor bass fishing conditions.
Chicago livestock market notes show hog receipts around 15 000 with buyers steady on most weights. Hogs 180 300 lb trades mostly 11 30 to 12 25, light weights up to 13 25. sows around 10 85 to 10 00, some light weights higher. Calves salable 5 000. choice fed steers yearlings and comparable fed heifers offered.
A Belle of a sundress and jumper option from Anne Adams Patterns for junior misses. Pattern 4846 offers sizes 11 to 18 with yardage details for sundress and blouse and mail order instructions from Bluefield Daily Telegraph. A larger 32 page pattern book is advertised.
In New York on June 29 the wholesale egg and butter market shows prices for various sizes. White eggs, special No 1 to No 2 weigh 47 pounds and over at 43, extra No 1 to No 2 at 46 pounds with 42442, extra medium 42 pounds at 3614 37, and additional entries follow for different grades.
Abingdon livestock figures show total head 1 920 with lambs down from last week and mixed grades. Vealers and cows range from 6 25 to 15 00 per hundredweight with hogs steady and packing sows around 9 00 to 9 50. Also notes salvage tip to save packing space by washing and flattening tin cans.
Steady best action on beef cows at 9.00 upward. bulls steady to weak. Realers 25 or more down. Top choice real ers 15.50. most fed steers 14.00 to 17.00, top 17.40. Yearlings 17.00. 900 lb heifer yearlings 17.25. Cows and bulls vary. cutter cows 8.25 down. sausage bulls 9.00–11.50. Salable lambs 1,009 of 5,000 total. native spring lambs steady, odd lots 14.50–15.00, bucks discounted 1.00. Short deck good spring lambs 14.25. medium springers 12.50. light cull down to 9.00. Scarce fats and yearlings 10.00–12.00. ewes 5.50–6.25, above 6.00 for some. Cull and common 400 at 5.00.
Market report shows demand moderating for apples with weak prices in Illinois and Pennsylvania. Transparents vary from 4.75 to 5.50 per basket, potatoes at 59 cars with theft noted, Long White from California at 3.75 to 4.00, Cobblers from North Carolina and Virginia around 3.59 to 3.65, and Texas Bliss at 4.50. Eggs unchanged.
Pittsburgh Livestock market shows prices for lambs ewes and wethers with mixed grades. Ranges include choice and good lambs at 18.08 and 4.00 for certain grades, common lambs 6.00 to 8.00, ewes 3.00 to 97.00, spring lambs 15.25 to 16.75. Other prices hold steady as market stays steady.
Chicago grain market June 20 shows strong milling demand pushing futures higher. Wheat closes up to 1 cent, corn and rye mixed, barley gains amid steady cash grain bids with prices listed for feed and barley offerings.
The notice lists price and grade figures for butter including bulk and carton deliveries in New York. It notes maximum OPA prices, creamery scores from 89 to 92 with premium marks AA and A, and adjustments of tubes percent per pound across grades.
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