Chicago livestock market reports April 18 indications and prices
Receipts estimated today hogs 23 000 cattle 2 500 sheep 7 900 with holdovers over ten thousand. Market dull to weak with hogs mostly 19 cents lower while beef and sheep prices show scattered strength for heavy and lamb categories. Top hogs around 20.65 and lambs near 20.10 with various weights and grades listed for cattle feeders and vealers. Official figures note receipts and shipments for the day.
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Chicago
Livestock Farming Aids Labor Shortage Across Farms
The Journal reports livestock farming as a labor saving solution during wartime shortages. Self feeders cut feed waste and boost pork yields. fenced fields allow hogs to forage, reducing attention. Sheep grazing corn and forage crops lower labor for wool, while cattle benefit from routine adjustments and permanent equipment. Iowa forms a Sheep and Wool Growers Association to improve wool quality and marketing.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Ohio
Iowa
Des Moines
Iowa lemon yields extraordinary backyard lemon
Cedar Rapids April 18. Frank Zastera grows fruit as a side line. His 1919 lemon crop produced a singular lemon weighing one pound four ounces. It bore seventeen buds, with only one plucked, yielding four pies from the huge fruit.
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Cedar Rapids
George Washington
Frank Zastera
Foley Cathartic Tablets Advertisement Cleansing Bowels
Indigestion and clogged stomach described as inviting illness. Undigested food ferments and sends poisons through the system. Foley Cathartic Tablets are wholesome and quick acting with no bad after effect. They cleanse bowels sweeten the stomach and tone the liver. Lemmon's Pharmacy adv.
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Lemmon
Adv
Weather and Crop Bulletin Week Ending April 15
Rainy and cloudy week with 15 to 30 percent sun. Light snows north of Monona county. Temperatures 6 degrees below normal in Missouri river counties, normal in the northeast, 2 to 5 degrees above in the southeast. Oats timing uncertain. less than half seeded in central districts. spring wheat and oats up in the south. Winter wheat thriving. meadows and pastures starting. rough feed scarce, early potatoes up in the southeast. seed corn testing well with usual complaints for those neglecting care.
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Monona
Missouri River
Maple Sap Yield From Herman Property Reported
A maple tree about fifteen inches in diameter on Fred Herman’s premises yielded twelve gallons of sap worth four dollars per gallon, according to a Waulkon report dated April 18.
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Waulkon
Fred Herman
Administrator's Sale of Four Rock Island Planters
Mrs. Lem Cherry as administratrix will sell at auction on Saturday, April 26 at 38 o clock at Phillips Feed Yard four new Rock Island corn planters. Attend if you need a corn planter.
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Phillips
Rock Island
Lem Cherry
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Miller's Antiseptic Oil Promises Pain Relief
Advertisement urges readers to try Miller's Antiseptic Oil known as Snake Oil for rheumatism neuralgia stiff muscles and croup with claims of powerful penetration and skin safety. Sold by Sherman Bros with 20 60 and 100 cent bottles and a money back guarantee.
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Sherman Bros
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Journal’s Farm Department
Iowa Sheep and Wool Growers’ Association
Columbuea
Hamilton County
Boone County
Iowa Beef Producers’ Association
John A. Babcock Commission Merchant
Yard
Illinois
Mutual
W. S. Reister & Sons
Washington
Washington County
Perfect Model
Alliman Bros
Noble, Iowa
Tys
T. G. Mandt Wagons
Fred L. Stewart
F. & M. Bank
Lowa
Miller's
Red
Washington Rendering Works
H. L. Clark
Ingo
Sherman Brothers
McKenzie & Shilling
W. J. Wilkinson
Riverside
J.D. Duncan
Cotter
Jarrow
Pathfinder Jr
Orion King
King the Col
Golden Mode
Long Wonder
John Krebs
Riverside, Lowa
Ralph Livingston
Wash
Ington, Iowa
la Crosse
Happy Farmer
Dittmars, Kerr & Co. Distributors
West Liberty
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