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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1913
Page
9
A county building talk explains soil fertility and plant nutrition, detailing seedbed creation, seed selection, and cultivation. It stresses nitrogen and other elements, warns against unbalanced plant food, and warns against deep cultivation after crops reach a certain height, urging faithful adherence to all farming steps for stable yields.
Chicago June 28 wheat prices firm after a major firm halted trading, dampening offerings and hardening values. September opened higher but closed modestly lower. corn saw a see-saw due to weather impact opinions, while oats rose briefly before retreating. provisions moved slowly with mixed first sales for September options: pork 20.52, lard 11.25, ribs 11.70.
Chicago cattle and hog prices show little firmness amid heat with hog receipts about 11 000 head and cattle 200 head. Hogs range 8.30 to 8.75 for various loads while cattle mostly 7.10 to 9.00. sheep and lambs soften under heavy direct packer receipts with native lambs at 5.60 to 6.40 and westerns weaker.
Chicago and Midwest cash grain prices and futures closed with varied readings across Wheat Corn Oats Rye and Barley. Prices show Wirh Wheat No 2 Red around 93 96c in Chicago cash. Kansas City and Omaha reports mirror mixed gains and holds across cash grades and futures weeks ending June 28.
Minneapolis June 28 report shows wheat futures closing July at 90 and September 92 December 94 cents per bushel. Cash prices list No 1 hard 93 No 1 northern 92 93 cents, No 2 northern 90 91 cents, No 3 wheat 88 89 cents.
Liverpool grain market reports steady wheat with Manitoba grades and firm corn spot. Futures dull for wheat and easy for corn as Kansas City produce shows butter eggs and poultry unchanged.
Kansas City stock market notes cattle and hog receipts with bids and prices. Hog receipts reach 10,000 head with bulk sales around 8.65 to 8.70 and packers bidding 8.65 to 8.72. Cattle receipts total 6,000 head with prime fed steers near 8.40 to 8.75 and cows 4.40 to 7.25. calves 6.50 to 9.50. Sheep receipts none. lambs 7.00 to 7.75 and yearlings 6.00 to 5.75. wethers 4.25 to 5.25. Stockers and feeders priced 3.00 to 4.50.
South Omaha Neb cattle receipts 100 head market steady native steers 7.25 8.60 cows and heifers 4.00 7.80 calves 7.50 10.00 hogs receipts 9,100 head market steady heavy 8.35 8.45 light 8.45 8.55 pigs 6.00 7.50 bulk 8.40 3.50 sheep receipts 400 head market steady yearlings 5.00 6.25 weathers 4.50 5.78 lambs 6.50 8.00 St Louis market notes steady hogs 6,500 head native beef steers 5.75 8.75 cows 4.50 8.50 shouts 5.25 7.75 New York poultry prices and St Louis grain quotes included.
Local notice announces Fine Farm in Cornbelt Center, NE Missouri, listing products including corn, grass, pork, beat, fruits, vegetables, chickens, eggs, cheese, cream, milk and honey.
Promises of easy gains from farmland near Keokuk and Fort Madison. Claims include doubling acres in five years, 10 percent rent returns, and 20 percent annual value increases for six years. Encourages selling less productive land to buy farms for children and investing surplus in mature farmland. See, write or call.
A. G. Tyler of Muscatine Iowa or Witty and McCandless of Memphis Missouri are named in this fragment indicating a possible business or legal connection. The text lacks full context or actions to determine a clear event or outcome.
New York June 28 Prices barely moved at opening with little business and small fractional changes. National Railways of Mexico second preferred rose on denial of reports of receivership while Union Pacific gained 4.5 points on steady earnings. Final hour trading saw a broad upturn as investors priced in Harriman dissolution plan prospects, with many readings up 1 to 2 points. Bonds remained steady.
New Yorks Stock List shows Amalgamated Copper at 6h American Beet Sugar 218 American Cotton Oil 36 American Smelting & Refining 62% American Sugar Refining 107B American Tel. & Tel. 129% Anaconda Mining Co. 95% Atlantic Coast Line 115 Baltimore & Ohio 94% Brooklyn Rapid Transit 87% Canadian Pacific TATA Chesapeake & Ohio 55 36 Chicago & North Western 127% Chicago, Asi. & St. Paul 103% Colorado Fuel & Iron 31B Colorado & Southern 31B Delaware & Hudson 161 Denver & Rio Grande 16% General Electric best Great Northern pfd 59 Great Northern Ore Ctfs 34 Timelg Central 109% Interborough-Met. 16 Interborough-Met. pfd 102 International Harvester 102 Louisville & Nashville 131 Missouri Pacific 30 Missouri, Kansas & Texas 47 Lehigh Valley 47 National Lead 46 New York Central 9h Norfolk & Western 107% Northern Pacific 107% Pennsylvanias 71 People's Gas West 107 Pullman Palace Car 1523 Reading 77 Rock Island Co. 25B Rock Island Co. pfd 25B Southern Pacific 96% Southern Railway B Union Pacific 84 United States Steel 53% United States Steel pfd 103 Wabash 2% Western Union 60% Chicago Produce Market Butter 24-26c Hogs Unchanged Receipts 14, R47 cages Potatoes New 80-90c Old 16-20c Poultry Unchanged New York Sugar Market Raw Sugar Muscovado 2.88 center, trifugal 3.39 molasses 2.64 Refined steady.
New York Produce notes butter unsettled at New York market on June 28 with total receipts of 9,406 boxes. Creamery extras traded at 26 34 cents, with firsts at 25 26 cents.
Summary of state banks and trust companies in greater New York not Included in clearing house state ment. Loans, $553,814,000, decrease, $9,550,400. Specie, $65,552,000, decrease, $804,100. Legal tenders, $7,557,900, decrease, $48,300. Total deposits $629,686,500, decrease, $3,259,200. Read the Journal 10 cents per week.
New York report shows clear ing house banks and trust companies hold 36,272,250 in excess reserves, down 8,537,400 from last week. Loans rise to 1,922,657,000 with 28,493,000 increase. specie declines 412,000. legal tenders fall 935,000. net deposits up 28,980,600. circulation down from prior level.
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