Chicago Markets Show Strong Hog and Cattle Demand
Hogs 14,000 head with active trade and clearances. Good and choice 160 to 240 pound hogs at 14.75 ceiling, over 240 pounds at 14.00. Cattle 5,000 head with calves 1,000. fat steers and yearlings steady to strong, top longfed steers at 18.00, yearlings 17.25 to 17.85, weaners steady at 15.00. Sheep 2,000 head, native lambs and yearlings steady, ewes steady, top 14.75. Estimates: hogs 14,000, cattle 7,000, sheep 6,000.
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Chicago
U.P
Chicago Cash Grain Update From Chicago Market
In Chicago on August trades the cash grain market lists oats in mixed lots at 73 to 75, with white varieties around 72 to 75 and red special near 74. Soybeans show a yellow 196 quoted.
Chicago Produce Market Report Summary
Chicago Aug 7. Egg market unsettled with receipts 17 828 cases. Extra firsts 8645 and firsts 33 percent. Current receipts 32 percent dirties 26 percent checks 25 percent. Poultry receipts 4 cars 18 trucks with varied counts of ducklings young geese old geese and hens. spring and broiler categories listed with percentages for friers tom turkeys.
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Chicago
Grain Table Chicago Opens With Mixed Wheat and Rye
Grain table from Chicago shows wheat futures near 155 to 158 for Sep Dec and May contracts with modest gains. Oats hover around 68 to 70 in Sept Dec May positions. Rye and corn values appear around 105 to 108 with varied close figures.
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Chicago
Local Soldiers En Route Furlough At Family Home
Pvt. Vaun W. Cochran of Fort George Meade Md spends a ten day delayed en route furlough at his Mt Pleasant home with his wife and six children. He completed foot training at Camp Fannin Texas with full field inspection on his birthday July 22. He visited Macksburg where his parents once lived. The Musical Gems of Bob Berkey will play at Oakwood Pavilion Wellman Thursday evening. Marie Landau returned from a month visit with friends and relatives including stops in Strawberry Point and Kansas City Mo with relatives Mrs Willis Jones Mr and Mrs James Robinson.
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Vaun W. Cochran
Fort George Meade
Mt. Pleaesant
Camp Fannin
Texas
Macksburg
Marie Landau
Strawberry Point
Carl Bull
Kansas City
Willis Jones
James Robinson
Miss Landau
Frank Qualdorf
Dows
Ted Hill
Zelma Moser
Perry
Webb Cross
Dee Martin
Waterloo
Kalona Board Hires Coach and Teacher for Fall Term
Kalona board of education has added a manual arts instructor and basketball coach, John N. Lohner, who will move from Farmington with his family. The Kalona schools plan to open August 28 with registration on August 25 and 26. KE Hesselschwerdt was elected chaplain of the Washington County American Legion.
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Chester Schwitters
Kalona
Board of Education
John N. Lohner
Farmington
Tom Russell
KE. J. Hesselschwerdt
Washington County American Legion
Victory Garden Notes From Sitter Iowa Gardens
Final sowings of summer vegetables should occur between August 20 and September 1. Spinach can be reattempted. lettuce radishes and kale suit late sowings. Thin beets carrots and celery. mulch not needed. Warns on squash vine borers and recommends slit and cover. use rotenone dust for cabbage worms. Harvest onions when 90 percent of tops fall. dry and store properly. Protect a short potato crop from leaf hoppers with sulfur dust or calcium arsenate spray. Dig potatoes promptly. avoid storing in damp basements. Watch for a third brood of strawberry leaf rollers and spray with lead arsenate. Apple maggots require burying culled apples next year’s crop protection.
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New Zealand
Victory Garden
Iowa State College Agrcultural Extension Service
Kalona cadets chosen for Sioux City encampment
Eight Washington Civil Air Patrol cadets selected for a week at Sioux City Air Base include Kalona boys Dean Jackson and Sherwood Strickler. Mrs S C Ware and family travel to Duncan Oklahoma for weeks visiting relatives while Capt S C Ware serves in India. Mrs Tom Russell and daughter travel to Seattle to visit naval unit member Tom Russell.
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Washington Civil Air Patrol
Sioux City Air Base
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Sherwood Strickler
S. C. Ware
Duncan
Okla
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India
Tom Russell
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Seattle
Washington
Naval
Chuckwill's Widow Mouth Caps Hummingbird Feast
A wildlife note describes the bird’s wide mouth capable of swallowing hummingbirds and small sparrows, highlighting its remarkable gape and feeding behavior.
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Chuckwill's
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