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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1927
Page
3
Live stock prices at Union Stock Yards South Omaha for June 8 1927 show heavier cattle receipts around 7500 head and uneven but largely steady trade. Top steers at 12 50 with varied prices across cattle yearlings heavy beeves steers fed heifers cows calves bulls and stockers reflecting strong demand in several categories.
About 12 000 hogs sold with prices down 15 25 cents. Hogs cleared around 800 to 845. Lamb trade shows strength with some 7 000 head offered. lambs up 10 cents, choice ranges 17 50 to 18 00, natives 15 25 to 16 75, spring shorn 15 25 to 16 00, yearlings 12 25 to 15 40. Feeders unchanged as receipts remain light.
H M Rainer director of the Nebraska Wheat Improvement Association stresses seed quality, rotation with summer fallow, organic matter, top dressing with livestock and manure, seed treatment for smut, and three essential conditions for high protein wheat. He warns against removing fertility without return and notes Nebraska yields about 16 bushels per acre, lower than Europe but higher than the U S average.
H M Rainer of the Nebraska Wheat Improvement Association cites a key finding from agricultural experiment stations that soil nitrogen levels, affected by legume rotations, influence wheat protein content. The discovery suggests improving both wheat yield and quality by including legumes in crop rotations.
The Nebraska Wheat Improvement Association warns that chinch bugs thrive in the eastern half of the state and suggests systematic fall burning to destroy almost all overwintering bugs. Experts claim each female lays 300 to 500 eggs next spring, so fall control reduces future infestations and crop damage.
Data from Harry R. Clark chief inspector at the Omaha Grain Exchange shows that about 45 percent of wheat received in 1924 and 1925 graded down at least one grade. Over 15 percent dropped due to excessive moisture and almost 8 percent due to heat damage. Nearly 3 percent were musty hot or sour and over 5 percent graded down due to mixture.
Sioux Falls report says ancient Greeks and Romans used butter to smooth hair around 450 BC. Prof Wood Combs of the dairy department at the University of Minnesota cites the finding at a National Butter Association convention. He jokes that butter substitutes may have appeared by 200 BC among Past Indian tribes using substitutes for sacred sacrifices.
London vicar Rev George Potter of St Chrysostom s Peckham bans parishioners from using his telephone after a youth placed a horse race bet by calling his bookmaker. Potter had allowed 8000 parishioners to use the phone but vows to censor calls, citing improper use for lengthy chats and delayed office calls. A man reportedly asked to use the phone and asked the bookmaker to place a dollar twenty five each way on a horse.
In Pittsfield Massachusetts the latest fad for girls is a walk with a hopping white rabbit on a leash. The trend highlights playful pet chic and community curiosity as youngsters showcase the unusual companion and mingle with onlookers.
Oxford. The worst lie, in Chesterton's view, is the belief that an American worships money. He argues true Americans value virtue, liberty, and cultural ideals over mere wealth.
Alliance Eagles plan construction of a new building. Bryan Memorial Hospital in Lincoln intends to spend $60,000 on a new addition. The Lutherans will install a $45,000 pipe organ in a new church to be built at Fremont.
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