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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1922
Page
4
Chicago April 20 market updates show hog receipts about 20 000 with holdovers 5 728 and beef cattle receipts around 10 000. Prices range with heavy and medium weight hogs up to 10 40 and 10 70. packing sows 8 85 to 9 75. pigs 7 9 75. Beef steers and butcher cattle steady to higher. lambs and sheep also higher. estimated tomorrow hogs 19 000 cattle 5 000 sheep 6 000.
Congresswoman Alice Robertson of Oklahoma rejects being bullied by the League of Women Voters. She says she serves all people not a single group and has thrown down the gauntlet to the organization amid rumors over her stance on the Sheppard-Towner maternity bill.
California Co operative Canneries of San Francisco blasts government's injunction against large meat packers as disastrous and unfounded. It seeks radical modification by removing packers as distributors of groceries fruits and other foodstuffs to prevent retailers and consumers from bearing higher prices.
Washington April 26 H FE Van Norman president of the World.s Daily Congress Association has been appointed commissioner of agriculture and delegate of the United States to the general assembly of the International Institute of Agriculture to be held from May 16 to 18 in New Italy (Italy).
Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle faces canceled contracts and withdrawn screenplays after Will Hays announces a ban by the Motion Picture Producers Association. The actor, recently acquitted in San Francisco of the rape charge related to Virginia Rappe's death, calls the move a complete surprise and a shock to his revival efforts.
Washington reports the public buildings commission plans to transfer government departments from rented space to government owned property to cut costs. The aim is to house the entire Department of Justice in temporary war buildings and end rental for agencies including the prohibition enforcement bureau and the alien property custodian by July 1 if feasible.
Portuguese aviators attempting a Portugal to Brazil flight cannot continue in their hydro airplane after a landing at St Paul Rocks Damages to the craft prevent further progress while the narrow harbor entry and treacherous cliffs pose hazards in Pernambuc dispatches.
Lady Astor arrives on the liner Olympic in New York, the first woman elected to the British House of Commons. She is Virginia born and British citizen, with Viscount Waldorf Astor joining her in America as a notable gathering of American women awaits.
In medieval England overindulgence in liquor led to the White Ship disaster as Norman sailors drank before departure from France. The sinking cost Henry I his male heir William, triggering a civil war over succession after his death.
Iowa farm officials report over twenty five spray machines in Jackson County this spring with most covering three to five orchards. Boone county adds three spray rings this year. Plans for a modern dairy plant in Boone and seed treatments with central drying plants are noted. Corn yield contest entries open until April 25 in Ames and cattle at the Cattle Feeders meeting sold at $8.50 per hundred.
Samples from four corners of Boone County tested at the college show 86 percent strong seed 3 percent weak and 4 percent dead. County agent Beeler urges all farmers to test their seed corn.
George Martin of Boone County comments that modern farming requires intelligence and that the key to being good at any work lies in mind and skill above all else. He emphasizes that most farming is done above the collar.
Boone county farmer Fred Swanson runs a 200 acre farm with 150 cultivated, using four horses. He says a tractor pays and can reduce horsework as the machine is used year round for wood cutting shelling corn grinding feed and field work.
Iowa State College fruit expert H H E Nichols notes 1922 will mark the third season for spray rings in orchards. There were 357 rings in operation covering 2094 orchards across 61 counties last year. Two ring types exist: small hand-barrel outfits used by cooperatives and large power sprayers with hired workers. proper timing and materials are essential.
J. J. Warren, in charge of organization record work for the Iowa Record Flocks, reports 48 117 hens totaling 266 598 eggs for February. Average production 7.6 eggs per hen and 27.2 percent. Receipts from flocks amount to 11395.70 with feed costs at 2120.20, leaving a net gain of 9275.50.
Cedar County farm bureau members decide the scabby potato must go in Tipton Iowa. The decision targets one crop issue affecting local growers and market quality. Community farming leaders vow continued coordination to protect produce and prices.
Dr. F A Fenton Iowa State College acting entomologist says farmers mistaken several pests for the European corn borer. The ear worm stalk borer and smartweed caterpillar are not serious, with no outbreaks near Michigan and quarantine aimed at keeping infested seed out.
Marshal Joffre arrived in Washington in drizzle to revisit the scenes and acquaintances of 1917 when he led the French war mission. He plans a five day stay as part of his American tour and return trip from Jaffa and the Far East.
Dealers warm the opal in their hands before showing it to enhance its color shift to attract higher prices.
Weather bulletin notes cool, cloudy week with rain and frost, but favorable days for field work. Oats seeding at about 40 percent nationally, barley acreage rising, possible shift to corn. Winter wheat and pastures look good, fruit bloom delayed in most areas, peaches and plums in southern counties may face frost. Southeast districts report oats sowing and fruit bloom. roads rough but passable. many counties report varying progress and conditions.
A $500 reward is offered for the arrest and conviction of any incendiary in the Associated Towns under section 3 of the Articles of Association. The Property Owners Federation Inc promotes fire tax payer contributions as a service to tax payers, noting they are not an insurance company.
Your cold fish globe should not be cleaned more than once a week. Drain and replace about a dipper of water weekly, keeping new water close in temperature to the globe. Feed each fish a quarter inch square of food daily and maintain water plants and pebbles in the globe. Avoid places with direct sun and keep the globe from becoming too warm.
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