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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1930
Page
10
Chicago AP reports hog receipts tomorrow are around 7 000 head for cattle and 13 000 head for sheep. The hog market grew in scale, limiting price gains though traders benefited from a good tone with 55 000 fresh and 1 000 stale hogs available and 30 000 sent directly to packers. Early top price reached 8.10 dollars, a nickel below Friday’s peak.
Hog prices in Cedar Rapids Des Moines Mason City Ottumwa Waterloo and Iowa shipments show prime lights and mediums near 6.75 to 7.40 per hundredweight with various weights and packers in the 5.30 to 6.80 range. Combined Iowa Minnesota totals indicate 47 500 head for the 48 hour period ending 10 am with mostly steady trend and longhaul hogs fetching up to 7.60.
Chicago livestock reports show hog receipts at 55,000 head with 000 direct. Activity described as mostly steady to strong, in line with Friday's average, with spots reaching 6.
Local markets list eggs and poultry prices with hens, springs, leghorn, and stage categories. Hog quotes from J P Squire Co, plus cattle, calves, sheep and veal values, receipts, and varying weight classes. Prices indicate strong to steady demand and mixed movement across hogs, cattle, and lambs.
Chicago AP reports wheat conditions justify no price cuts and the grain stabilization corporation will absorb surplus offerings to keep prices firm. Corn led the price plunge with a 2c drop. total corn arrivals rose to 1,741,000 bu. Last week. Wheat closed little changed to down 2 1/2c. oats and provisions edged lower.
Kansas City market data shows hog receipts about 8 head with prices from 6.25 to 7.75 for various weight ranges. cattle receipts 12,000 head with steady to higher trends for stock and fed steers from 9.00 to 13.50, heifers 7.75 to 11.75, cows 4.00 to 7.25, vealers 5.00 to 9.00, and stockers 4.25 to 9.25. sheep receipts 5,000 with higher kills and lambs 6.00 to 7.75, ewes 2.50 to 3.85, feeder lambs 6.00 to 6.75.
Cattle receipts 4509 head with calves and beef cattle varied by class. Hogs receipts 10000 head with top at 7.60 for choice 170 to 200 lb butchers, bulk 7.40 to 7.50. Sheep receipts 2500 head with fat lambs steady to weak and best salable around 6.75 to 6.95. feeding lambs weak.
Receipts include cattle 2 500 head with strong to higher bids for top shortages. Calves 1 700 head with good grades at 7.50 to 10.00, hogs 9 500 head up 10 to 150 on lights and butchers, sows steady, pigs 25 to 50c higher. Sheep 5 000 head bid ranges, fat lambs to packers around 7.50 and ewes 3.00 to 3.25.
St Joseph Missouri cattle sheep and hog receipts show hogs 7 000 head steady to strong with bulk 160 to 190 pounds 7 60 to 7 70 top 7 75 sparingly. Cattle 2 000 head calves 300 head steer run light sales up to 10 60 mostly steady. Beef cows weak cutters and low grades weak bulls steady. Sheep 1 500 head Idaho lambs around 7 50 to 7 75 few feeders 6 5 aged sheep nominal.
U S Department of Agriculture hogs cattle and sheep receipts listed with price ranges by weight. Hogs 140 to 260 lbs mostly 7.00 to 8.25. sows 275 to 500 lbs about 6.60 to 7.00. light hogs 10 to 130 lbs 7.00 to 8.00. Cattle receipts 6500 head with steers about steady to higher on some classes. bulls up to 25c. cows 4.00 to 7.75. calves 15 to 0 0. heifers 55 to 950 lbs with varied values. stockers and feeders noted. Sheep 1580 head with lambs 7.25 to 8.25 for 90 lbs and under.
AP market notes list bid prices for wheat corn and rye and seed values in Chicago. Wheat prices range No 2 hard 78 78 12 cents, No 1 northern spring 78 42, No 2 northern spring 77 1/2, other grades 63 64 with varied fractions. Corn quotes cover No 3 mixed 63 44 to 63 1/2, No 6 mixed 56, No 2 yellow 67, No 4 yellow 61 64, No 5 white 58 61, sample grade 50 57. Rye No 1 56. Timothy seed 8.0 8.75. Clover seed 15.00 22.75.
Minneapolis flour quotes unchanged for carload shipments with family patents at 5.25 to 5.35 per barrel in 98 pound cotton sacks. Shipments totaling 27 524 barrels. Bran prices range from 14.00 to 14.50, standard middlings 13.0 to 14.0.
Chicago AP market notes show poultry receipts six cars ten trucks with steady demand. Fowls mainly 17 cents, springs 20, roosters 14, young hens 34, ducks 131 to 115 cents, geese. Butter firm with 10,977 tubs. creamery extras 30 34 cents, standards 29 to 29 1/2, firsts 26 1/2 to 27 1/2, seconds 24 1/2 to 25 1/4. Eggs receipts 4,514 cases firm. extra firsts 28, graded firsts 26. weights listed with various prices. ewes 90 to 150 lbs and culls at 2.50.
Peoria Illinois AP cattle and hog quotes show hog receipts at 4 000 head with top 7 90 and bulk 7 75 while cattle receipts total about 200 head.
The text lists potato prices for regions Wisconsin Minnesota Idaho and Colorado with various grades and prices. It also notes closing futures for eggs Refrigerator standards and storage standards for butter with December January and February figures.
AP report on New York receipts lists butter tubs at 30 to 92 score with varied pricing and packing stock. Egg cases total 5 634 with firmer grades and color variety, featuring firsts, extras, and seconds at multiple cents per dozen and Refrigerated items noted.
AP listing from St Louis Missouri shows egg prices at 23 percent 4, butter at 30 to 33 cents per pound, poultry including heavy hens at 16 cents and turkeys at 33 cents, cheese at 18 18%4 cents, with various grades and standards noted.
Egg price at 6.30 per dozen, butter at 33 cents, creamery 32 cents and fat 17 to 22 cents. Large quantities pack butter 10 cents. Poultry items including hens 10 to 14 cents, mature birds 14 to 19 cents, roosters 8 to 11 cents, and springs priced unknown.
AP reports hay receipts at Chicago 16 cars and Kansas City 78 cars, both unchanged. New York raw sugar remains quiet at 3.25 cents a pound with refined at 4.65 cents, no change.
New York trading drifted downward with limited incentive to push a recovery. Profit taking and late losses for tax purposes weighed on sentiment as credit rates held at 2 percent. Bond prices softened post last week’s rally though rail bonds showed gains, with notable moves in Erie 5s and other rail issues amid a broad, volatile session.
Muscatine readers urged to study the tax commission report, endorsing Senator Charles F. Clark as state tax reform head. The piece notes public support for a graduated state income tax and outlines fifteen recommendations including county assessors, utility assessments, cigarette and tobacco taxes, billboard tax, gasoline station licenses, and corporate taxes.
All the Smith-Hughes agriculture class boys led by Lindley B Hoopes of Muscatine High will depart Tuesday by special bus for a full day inspection tour of dairy farms in the Tri Cities area. They will visit Devis Greenhouses Davenport Iowana stock farm Betten dorf Mo line Midvale Homewood Wyanette farms and return home.
Plans for a soil improvement program for meld growing territory in Muscatine county were discussed at a meeting of officers and directors of the Iowa Melon Growers association at the Hotel Muscatine today. Dr I E Melhus and Prof A T Irwin met with directors including Hal Wolford Roy Jean Grover Strouse Elmer Corwin and William McCormick to consider fertilization measures and wilt resistant melon seed.
Chicago opponents of crime push a bill to define public enemies as felons. The act against public enemies would cover bail jumping intimidation of witnesses attempted jury bribing and perjury. The measure drafted by James G Condon and jurists aims to curb crime as the Illinois legislature convenes.
The Crystal and Fox Palace cinema listings show shows tonight including Walter Huston in The Bad Man at Crystal and Joe E Brown in Going Wild at Fox Palace. Also on the bill Ginger Rogers in Office Blues with George K Arthur and Karl Dane in Broken Wedding Bells, plus Fox Movietone News and a humorous aviation feature.
Registration of unemployed rose to 180 at the YMCA today according to B L Gallaher general secretary. More registrations are being taken with a questionnaire on qualifications for prospective employers. He noted no large scale openings immediately but possibilities after January 1 and asked for odd jobs to provide temporary work.
Muscatine's Salvation Army will receive contributions from a food matinee arranged by Crystal theater proprietor C. J. Jamison. The event is on Wednesday at 2 PM. any nonperishable food items grant admission for children, with receipts supporting the Salvation Army Christmas relief program in Muscatine.
AP reports from Rotterdam say Merapi eruption in Central Java has killed between 300 and 400 people. Most victims were field workers near the volcano base, overcome by a sudden lava avalanche. The volcano had been inactive for 80 years.
Ortha Neff was elected president of the Pike Lassies Four-H club at a Saturday meeting. Dorothy Rummells was named vice president, Marie Neff secretary, and Alice Tomfeld publicity chairman. Roll call cited receipts for Christmas candy and talks on Christmas customs were given by Neff and Rummells.
The J. C. Thomson Installment company sues W. J. Bryant and Margaret Bryant for 246.30 claiming unpaid balance on a furniture contract. Drake and Wilson represent the plaintiff. E. C. Erwin reports a higher court transcription transfer in a separate Iowa Supreme Court matter. Samuel Lagar, 56, telegraph operator, was killed by a Burlington train. an inquest will be held unless railroad officials request otherwise, coroner Lazgar Throckmorton said.
Muscatine county placed eighth among Iowa counties in 1930 automobile registrations, with 8,504 cars 856 trucks 20 motorcycles and five trailers. State totals show 780660 registrations including 705341 automobiles 1668 motorcycles and 72095 trucks. Park county led in autos with 43873. Woodbury and Scott counties followed. overall license receipts reached 13.64 million dollars for the year.
West Liberty resident Al McAnulty aged 80 died at Mercy hospital Iowa City after a fall and hip fracture. He lived in West Liberty 56 years working for Rock Island lines and as school janitor. Survived by widow two daughters Myrtle Reynolds and Alice Shetler and four grandchildren. Burial at Oak Ridge Cemetery. Funeral arrangements incomplete.
AP report details four men robbing theater manager W. H. Wagner and abducting his wife to seize $800 from the theater safe and $5 from Mrs. Wagner. The pair fled in a car after a patrolman fired 10 rounds. no jewelry was taken. Separate item notes extensive rubber production in North Sumatra.
Notice warns no hunters or trap persons on Seven Springs farm and states violators will be prosecuted.
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