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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1919
Page
2
Chicago market briefing notes receipts of hogs about 23 000 and cattle around 4 000 with total sales near 25 000. Prices show weakness with most hog classes 10 cents lower and beef steers steadier to higher, calves and feeders mostly steady, while lambs and yearlings vary by weight and class.
Grain futures close reported by E. W. Wagner and Co of Iowa City with J. B. Hunt as manager.Phone contact listed as 726 for inquiries.
The piece contrasts romantic notions of wild woodland furs with the urban alley cat, hinting at a harsher tale behind city wildlife and fur lore.
W S Reister & Sons of Washington Iowa promote butter eggs poultry and cream trade arguing cows with cream produce steady cash. They cite Mrs L K Hoyle of Jackson Center milking five cows for four days yielding 14 46 from a five gallon cream can testing 60 butter fat. They promise steady paying prices with a note that eggs are slightly higher as of April 24.
Albert McCutchan of Montgomery County Indiana, 1918 state champion in the sow and litter project, bought his own sows to learn by doing. His Poland China gilt farrowed nine pigs in spring, four sold for fifty dollars each, one fattened for thirty four, and four sows kept worth at least two hundred dollars. Father and son plan to make big type Poland China pigs a main farming line, with the boy handling all pig care.
Hampton aims to identify top yellow corn varieties for local farming. County Agent Thomas oversees a 12 acre plot on J F Stauffer land with four 60 acre field plots testing multiple varieties for germination and yield. Results next fall will guide seed selection and spraying and pruning demonstrations at county and W H Harrison orchards.
The USDA advises sowing seeds indoors and transplanting after frost danger. Space 18 inches between plants or 12 inches in rows for hand culture, 30 inches between rows for horse cultivation. Water at planting, protect from cutworms with a paper collar, and expect maturity in 60 to 75 days from setting.
Iowa passes a law requiring all egg dealers to obtain a license by May 23 and to operate within strict rules or lose their license. About 15 000 dealers would be impacted, per the state food and dairy department.
An auction of household items will be held at 740 East Madison Street near the Ballpark in Terre Haute Indiana on Saturday April 26 at 2 o clock. The list includes a William and Mary oak dining set leather seated chairs two bedroom suits rugs sewing machine piano and more with tools garden items and cleaning wares. Auctioneers H L Mayhew YD Macon. Clerk Robert McCall.
The article notes poet Robert Browning consistently refused cash offers for short poems during the last 25 years of his life. Editors offered large sums, but Browning said no, believing readers could purchase his books instead of being sold new verse.
Study notes note social life and naming in communities with a humorous take from Topeka Control about how a man’s full name remains unknown until his wife hosts a party.
Washington county reports 4,356,278 bushels of corn in 1918, with 1,971 farms on 304,678 acres. Oats, wheat and other crops rise. Jackson Township leads in cultivation and corn yield. pasture covers 109,936 acres while 941 acres are waste land.
The report shows swine 939 on Jan 1 1919 and 2002020 from 1918, cattle total 4 101 and other cattle 6 837, sheep 13 026, wool 60 512 pounds, poultry 299 015, eggs 1 213 577 dozen. Swine numbers rose 22 000 year over year while cholera losses fell by over a thousand. Cattle rose by about a thousand and sheep nearly tripled. poultry grew by 18 000.
A brief note advises repairing scuffs by applying fresh mucilage and pressing with a finger. After polishing, the wear or rent becomes invisible to the eye.
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