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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1930
Page
8
Chicago reports a slow start in hog trading as larger marketings arrive nationwide. Packers receive 12,000 direct hogs, open market supplies total 28,000 plus 2,000 from the state. Shippers buy sparingly at 11.15 to 11.25 for 170 to 200 lb selections. butchers and packing sows remain mostly unsold.
Iowa markets show varying hog prices with regional ranges. Cedar Rapids primes from 8.75 to 10.06, Mason City and Ottumwa report best lights and heavies around 8.65 to 10.15, Waterloo and Ottumwa list multiple classes with prime lights at 9.70 to 10.15 and packers around 7.10 to 8.30.
Chicago livestock prices and receipts show hogs at steady to mixed levels with top hogs around 11.25 and 11.25 for 170 to 210 pounds, while cattle receipts reach 14 000 with most killing classes up 25 to 60 cents and yearlings $12.00 top. Grain-fed steers bring 9.50 to 11.50, grassers and short feds 6.50 to 9.00, and vealers 10.00 on 600 to 900 pounds.
Local grocers pay 20 to 21 cents for poultry and eggs. Poultry prices list heavy hens at 15 cents and various weights of hens and springs. Livestock quotations from J. P. Squire Co. show primes and butchers cattle at 6 to 12 dollars per hundredweight, veal and sheep figures, with receipts of 35,000 and mixed stock categories including cows, steers, and feeding lambs.
South St. Paul stockyards report Aug 25 with receipts of 5700 cattle mostly feeders steady to higher. Cows 4.75 to 75.75, bulls 5.50 to 6.25, calves 10 to 12, hogs 9.25 to 10.25, sows 8.25 to 8.50, feeder pigs 9.00 to 9.25. Sheep 10,500 head with fat lamb bids around 9.00 to 9.50 and ewes 5.00 to 5.50. light lambs around 7.00.
Receipts run high across cattle hogs and sheep with mixed changes. Hogs steady to lower with tops around 10.60 for 220 lb butchers. cattle active with fed steers up to 25 cents. lambs 25 to 50 percent higher while sheep hold firm. Bulk feeders show varied gains and several loads of light stock are noted.
U S Department of Agriculture price report from Kansas City Missouri shows hog rece ipts of 6000 head with prices steady to 10 cents higher than Saturday. Top hogs at 10 85 for 210 to 220 pounds. Cattle receipts 16000 head with calves 3000. cattle fashion up to 25 cents higher. Sheep receipts 7000 head with lambs slow and prices 25 to 40 cents lower.
U S Department of Agriculture notes cattle receipts 6500 with higher market for slaughter steers yearlings and stockers. Beef cattle top around 11.60 per cwt for 900 lb yearlings and 11.10 for 1230 lb beeves. Hogs receipts 4500 with light weight cuts down 1 to 15 cents. 180-230 lb butchers 10.40 to 10.50, top 110.60 for lights. Sheep receipts 7000 with fat lambs 250+ lower, best westerns about 10.00, aged sheep scarce.
Receipts at East St. Louis for hogs and cattle show varied prices. Hogs 9,500 head with early sales down 10 to 15 cents, most categories steady to higher. various weight ranges priced from about 10.25 to 11.50. Cattle and calves 6,590 head. trading active with natives and westerns up around 25 cents, steers 9.50 to 11.25, mediums 5.50 to 9.75, heifers 9.95 to 11.29, cows 5.50 to 7.25, bulls 6.25 to 7.25, stockers and feeders noted.
Chicago reports show wheat prices easing as the U S wheat visible supply rises to 182,275,000 bushels aided by good Kansas rains and weak demand. Corn stays volatile with a day range around 11 2 cents and oats and provisions also fluctuating amid heavy arrivals and pessimistic corn crop outlooks.
Chicago market report shows No 2 red wheat at 91 1/2 to 91 3/4 cents, No 1 hard near 90 to 90 1/2, and various No 1 to No 6 corn and yellow and white wheat quotes. Oats and seeds also listed with lard ribs bellies trading around listed dollars and cents.
In Omaha Nebraska on August 25 the AP notes price quotes for various grain grades. Wheat prices range from No 4 at 78 cents to durum and northern spring varieties near 80 to 86 cents. Corn bids list Yellow No 1 at 93 cents and No 2 at 93 cents with mixed at 92 cents. Oats follow with White varieties around 38 to 39 cents.
Kansas City grain news notes wheat receipts at 259 cars with prices unchanged to higher. Market activity and bids at key trading point reflect steady to firm tone amid the week’s trading.
Steers across all weights bring 5.75 to 7.25 dollars while medium grades fetch 4.00 to 5.75. Sheep receipts total 2 000 with bidding 25 to 50 cents lower and lambs 90 pounds down to 8.75 to 10.00. medium 7.00 to 8.75. common 4.50 to 7.50. Ewes 90 to 150 pounds bring 2.75 to 4.00 with culls at 1.00 to 2.75.
Hogs receipts 4000 head. light weights mixed and steady to strong for 240 280 lb class. top around 10.85. Cattle receipts 2900 head. slaughter steers and yearlings firm to higher. beef cows up to 6.00. stockers and feeders 6.00 to 7.50. Lambs_receipts 6500 head. most unsold. western lambs top 8.90. native lambs around 9.25 down. range feeding lambs 7.25.
An OCR fragment lists various grades and prices such as No. 2 dark nominally 82 9ic, No. 3 nominally $14289c, No. 2 hard 21¢ 85'sc, smutty 80G 80'9c, and other grade and color specs with further receipts notes. Mentions 19 cars unchanged and white Nos with small cents values.
Wheat receipts listed at 759 cars, up from 742 year ago. Cash and No 1 grades shown with multiple protein percentages and price ranges. No 2 amber durum and red durum prices included, along with February and December futures figures. Oats No 3 white and rye No 1 prices noted. flax No 1 quoted at $1.86 to $1.58.
Cash corn prices fall across grades with No 1 yellow at 96 cents and No 2 yellow at 98 cents No 3 yellow 97 1 2 cents No 6 yellow 96 cents sample grade 94 0c Oats ease with No 1 white 41 4 cents No 2 white 41 cents
The record notes unchanged flour prices in carload lots with family patents at $5.80 to $5.90 per barrel for 8 lb cotton sacks. It lists shipments totaling 38,408 barrels. Bran ranges $25.00 to $25.50 and Standard Middlings at $26.00.
Chicago, Aug 25 AP Butter receipts 11 770 tubs firm creamery extras 39c standards 39c extra firsts 371/2 38c firsts 35 42 36 2c seconds 33 24c Eggs receipts 12 442 cases firm extra firsts 27c fresh graded firsts 26c fresh current receipts 22 23c ordinary current receipts 15 21c Poultry alive receipts 8 cars 4 trucks steady fowls 22c general run 20 2c springs 24c broilers 22c roosters 15c turkeys 15 18c spring ducks 17 20c young geese 14c Potatoes receipts 141 cars on track 861 cars total US shipments Saturday 622 cars Sunday 36 cars firm trading good Wisconsin sacked Irish cobblers best mostly 1.80 few 1.75 small stock 1.65 Minnesota sacked Early Ohios 1.50 1.65 sacked Irish cobblers 1.65 1.80 Missouri sacked Irish cobblers 1.65 1.75 Wisconsin sacked triumphs 2.25 Colorado sacked triumphs 1. ? Futures Eggs Refrigerator standards Nov Sec Butter Storage standards Nov Ac
New York buyers see firm butter receipts 4045 tubs with creamery butter at 40 40'2c for extra, 37 39%c to 39c for first. Eyes receipts 10055 cases with mixed colors and heavy lots quoted 32 14c to 33c for extras, 27 29c for extra firsts, 26 2612c for firsts, 22 23%c for seconds. Refrigerated items show 31c for closely selected heavy extra 29%30c.
St Louis report notes eggs up 1 cent to 1014 per dozen, butter steady at 39. Creamery extras and standards hold at 39 and 34 for firsts, seconds. Cheese unchanged for northern twins. Poultry prices steady with heavy hens 18 1/4 cents, lights 16 cents, springs 20 cents, turkeys 20 cents, geese 9, ducks 10.
Kansas City market report lists butter with bids and asks of 6.30 to 6.65 per pound, Butter-Creamery at 43c and 42c for larger quantities, butter fat at 33c, packing butter 18c. Poultry prices show hens 11 to 15c, broilers 17 to 20c, roosters 9 to 13c.
New York on August 25 reports dressed poultry steady with various price points for fresh and frozen goods. Chickens run 22 to 38 cents, fowls 174 to 230 cents depending on size, turkeys 224 to 450 cents, ducks 154 cents for fresh.
In New York on August 25 sugar futures opened steady to down two points, with mid day trading showing little change to one point lower. Refined sugar held at 4.35 for fine granulated.
Hay Receipts total 123 cars at Kansas City. Alfalfa listed by grade with prices from No 1 extra leafy 25 to 27 dollars, No 2 23.5 to 24.5, No 1 21 to 23, No 2 leafy 19.5 to 20. Prairie No 1 12 to 13, No 2 11 to 11.5. Timothy No 1 15.5 to 16.9, No 2 14.5 to 15.0.
Chicago on August 25 reports hay receipts totaling 17 tons. Timothy sells at 16 dollars 21 cents, timothy clover mixed at 14 21, timothy grass at 15 20, clover at 15 20, mixed hay at 14 20, sample hay at 10 13, and alfalfa choice at 18 27.
Clover seed trades at cash domestic 13.75 with futures for October December at 14.75 and March 15.25. Cash price for choice seed 14.05. Alsike seed cash 12.00 with October bids and December bids at 12.25 and 12.50.
Three hundred turkeys are raised on N. D. Stevens farm in Bremer county with over $1,000 in sales last year. Webster county farmers file many beet contracts as they try sugar beet growing for the first time. Tama county sheep losses to dogs prompt a $72 claim by John Pipper Jr. at Dysart. Charles Brandt seeks $30 for a calf killed by dogs. Butter used for sculpture at a state fair display. life size figures of a man and a cow attract crowds. Mount Pleasant inmates cut 150 tons alfalfa hay for the state hospital.
New York stocks opened the week with a small upward tilt as several blue chips rose early. Oil shares weakened late morning trading, pushing the market lower. vanadium led declines while several major names touched new lows. Trading remained light as analysts eyed earnings and a cautious recovery tone in banking circles.
In New York on Aug 25 the forward bond market slowed with little demand for fixed income. The Chicago sanitary district issued 1 395 million dollars in 4 15 percent bonds while railroad issues slackened, and Union Pacific and Central Pacific items posted new highs on the movement.
The New York closing reported Liberty 31s at 101, First 414s at 102.1, Fourth 44s at 102.28, and Treasury 44s at 112.19. The item also notes Guido d Arezzo as the credited medieval inventor of solfeggio, staff and clef used in music study.
The great Gothic cathedral of Milan now offers elevators to the belfry for sightseers and an automatic telephone system for public use.
The state owns about 800 acres near Eldora operated by 500 boys at the training school. The facility uses a quantity of straw and supports other state institutions with its agricultural output.
Northeastern Iowa plant managers report a normal corn pack as factories open. Further west a 30 to 40 percent reduction is anticipated due to the drought limiting supply and processing capacity across the region.
A Star sedan with 1929 plates crashed into a large tree two miles south of West Liberty on highway 76 Sunday. The owner has not been located or claimed the vehicle. Witnesses say a young man left the scene and no injuries were reported.
Cincinnati hosts the sixty fourth Grand Army of the Republic encampment with a public reception for aging veterans. 15 000 expected, radio broadcast for the feeble, election of a new commander in chief prominent among topics. Smith Summer of Fargo leads active campaign. Daughters of the Confederacy criticized by past G A R leaders.
Secretary Hyde, head of the national drought relief committee, returned from an inspection trip across the drought afflicted regions near Washington and the upper Ohio Valley. He planned to report to President Hoover and meet tomorrow with the national committee and state banking representatives. Jenny M Robinson, Los Angeles banker coordinating relief funds, was due to arrive.
In Pipestone Minnesota Gust Thiel and Ralph Tyler were injured in a farm mishap involving a cat cow and dog as described in a whimsical nursery rhyme scene. Gust Thiel suffered a fractured leg while the other man and a neighbor were hurt by the ensuing chaos. Separately Mrs W F Tatem and daughter Dorothea of Nora Springs were bruised in a collision between their auto and C A Curist of Superior near Algona.
Ellen Humiston aged 87 widow of Civil War veteran died at the Iowa Soldiers Home in Marshalltown and will be buried in Columbus Junction. She was born in Greene County, lived in Louisa and then Columbus Junction most of her life, husband John Humiston predeceased her. Surviving children are Mrs. William Van Horn Cairo, Mrs. Carl Grandy Davenport, Mrs. Glen Helmick Columbus Junction, and Lewis Humiston Columbus Junction.
Eldred Hoben son of Mr and Mrs W H Hoben of Gladwin and a Columbus high school graduate will enter the State University of Oklahoma Norman in mid September to pursue geology. He will room with Carleton McGrew who also recently went to Oklahoma. Mary Brown returned from San Francisco and visits her sister Mrs J W Hubbard. The item lists several local visits and social events among residents of Columbus Junction and surrounding towns.
Sheriff Fred Nesper announced awards from a sheriff's jury session for land condemned by the state highway commission along highway No. 61 southwest of Muscatine. A. Schurr's strip received 80 dollars with 15 dollars to tenant Clyde Carey. Eisele heirs and lien holders were awarded 1,197.75 dollars, and tenants Joseph Eisele and James Anderson received 180 dollars.
Captain Wolfgang Von Gronau and three companions landed at Queensport Nova Scotia after a six hour forty five minute flight from Labrador. A later stop at Marie Joseph near Halifax was made due to dense fog and weather advisories before heading to Halifax.
Mrs. Lucy Cuerdon of Carleton Illinois died while being taken to a Keokuk hospital after an automobile crash near Hamilton Michigan. Mil s Granger of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania was seriously injured in the same crash.
Pittsburgh reports two Rankin houses destroyed after a bombing. A man Samuel Mazzarelli 35 and his nephew Frank Rossi 16 were in critical condition and six firefighters suffered burns. Police say Mazzarelli had recently received a life threatening letter. They were treated at Braddock General Hospital, with doubtful recovery.
Four weeks with cousin Miss Velda Jones of Farmington. Mrs. J. E. Lukins spent a week in Sigourney with son Claude and family. Miss Pauline McCleary of Letts visited aunt Mrs. T. B. Curtis. Harry Limbecker of Wapello attended Chautauqua and visited friends. Dr. and Mrs. G. R. Bruce returned from vacation. Norma Lewis came from Burlington work at Melba shop. Theda Ockerman returned to Muscatine after visiting Letha Simons. Roosevelt Stingley and family and Edgar Newman of Chicago visited Columbus City. Mrs. Adrian Norris and daughter returned from Ottumwa. Cordelia Hankins went to Chicago to visit nephew Delia Hankins. J. D. Darrow visited Oakdale to see daughter Helen ill with pneumonia. Her recovery is expected.
Wanted woman to care for children. Call at 1202 E. 4th after 5 39 p m. For sale porch swing. 212 West
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