Hogs Continue Upward Trend This Week at Kansas City
Kansas City stock yards report a new yearly high for hogs at $21.15 with most sales $20.40 to $21.00 while cattle and sheep show strength. Receipts modest versus last week and year, with fat cattle $11.50 to $15.00, veal to $14.00, hogs tops $21.15 and 20.25 for pigs, spring lambs $17.40 to $18.50, and notes on feed cattle demand and export stock needs.
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Guaranteed 18 Steaths Vesta Batteries
Free Electric Service Co offers a monthly service cost claim for Vesta batteries with optimistic wording. The fragment includes a garbled note about imagery and wishes, and references a phone contact 481 M4 E.
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Free Electeict Service Co
Sugar Beet Seed Shortage Threatens 1921 Plantings
The United States Department of Agriculture warns of a serious shortage of sugar beet seed for spring 1921 due to European constraints and rising beet sugar production there. US seed stocks can cover 1919 plantings, but 1920 seed supply is short 25 40 thousand bags, met by imports. Netherlands prices range up to 2 2.5 florins per kilogram.
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Useful to Measure Fences and Acres with a Wheel
An Indiana Farmers' Guide tip describes bolting four by two inch strips into a wheel to measure fence length or field area. Spokes painted at one end allow counting revolutions as they pass, giving feet per revolution and total distance for quick area estimates.
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Farmers’ Guide
Fewer Walking Sticks Used In Modern Dress
An old fashion note observes that walking sticks have fallen out of favor in contemporary attire. Two generations ago a man needed a cane to appear fully dressed in public, but today gold headed canes and jeweled boxes are rarely seen.
Valuing Man and Farm Records Through Practical Guidance
A historical column discusses careful farm cost accounting from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and reflects on valuing people by their inherent traits. It also includes anecdotes on workers, appetite in composers, and etymology of quadrille derived from dance positions.
And What Would the Papers Do
A reflective line from the Boston Transcript notes life would lack novelty without mistakes, suggesting journalism's role in breaking monotony. The quip remarks on error as a driver of variety in reporting.
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