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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1924
Page
14
About 10 000 cattle arrived Tuesday with best grades steady to strong while plainer lots and cows were 10 15 cents lower. Hog market opened 10 15 cents higher with top heavy butchers at 6.90 and most trades 6.35 to 6.75. Lambs and sheep advanced with fat lambs at 13.50 to 14.35 and feeders 12.25 to 13.90. Receipts: cattle 15 500. sheep and lambs about 10 000.
Omaha February 12 James Johnson a Winnetoon breeder and feeder says he will raise hog output by keeping 40 sows this year up 10 from usual He sold 65 head of purebred Poland China hogs averaging $11 per cwt top here last Saturday with a $6 90 average per hog Johnson argues increasing production can recoup losses from the past season Hudson County feed market analysis notes a trend toward expansion among farmers amid uncertain hog prices.
Miss Anna Jorgensen spent last Monday afternoon with Mrs Charley Smith. Alfred Jorgensen Ed Miles and Jack Burk attended the sale west of Gurley Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Ray Miles motored to Sidney Tuesday afternoon after a corn shucker. Mrs Ed Miles and daughter Hazel spent Tuesday in Gurley visiting Mrs Charles Gabriel. Otto Davis has been shucking corn for John Olson a couple of weeks. spent Wednesday at J C Jorgensen's.
The piece lists social calls and visits in the community then urges diversified farming over a one crop system. It argues soil fertility, livestock, dairying, and crop rotation are essential for prosperity, warning that single crop farming harms both land and people.
The piece quotes P G Holden, urging diversification to avoid the risks of a single crop. It argues that a state or county must be able to feed itself and produce a cash crop year round. Holden says reliance on one crop bets on favorable conditions and invites ruin from pests and weather.
People in small towns will see the Ziegfeld chorus in Potash and Perlmutter at the I A theatre on Monday. About a score of Follies beauties perform in the cabaret scenes. the chorus is billed as the prettiest in the world and costly to bring to the production.
Lou Closmin a Sidney pioneer and well liked citizen departed Monday night to enter the Masonic home at Plattsmouth Nebraska. Taxi call 161.
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