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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1929
Page
2
Chicago hogs and cattle receipts open steady with Tuesday averages. Top hogs 9.50 per cwt. 190 to 300 pounds 9.35 to 9.50. cattle and calves strong for better grades, yearlings and calves up to 16.00 for top lots. Slaughter classes show mixed to firm demand. stockers and feeders steady to 11.00 per cwt. sheep and lambs open steady with fat lambs 12.50 to 13.80 and ewes 4.75 to 6.25.
Chicago livestock figures for the next day estimate hogs at 48000, cattle at 7000, and sheep at 13000. Trade observers note demand factors and price expectations in the early reports from Dec 11.
OCR snippet shows mixed market data for December and March with percentages, prices, and codes. Readable items include Dec and Mar entries, lard and other commodities, but many figures are garbled, making a coherent report impossible.
The list shows mixed grain prices for corn and white oats with bids from 4 to 7 and specific lots named Eloy Yellow and Barley. It records sample grades, timothy and clover cash values, and monthly futures prices in February, March, and December with several old and new cash figures.
Joe H H Jones of Ainsworth vice president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation will be the principal speaker at the annual meeting and banquet of the Louisa county Farm Bureau in the Wapello high school Friday evening Dec 12. Election of officers for 1930 will close the evening.
Washington Iowa is described as the driest town in the country with police chief Pollok Wallace noting minimal liquor trouble. The report contrasts Washington with nearby Muscatine offering easy access to alcohol and includes an anecdotal riff on Iowa bootlegging methods and a county fair-like sale at W D Alliman's Skymaster ranch near Valley.
Infectious diseases of livestock caused losses on eastern town farms in two weeks per reports from veterinarians to the Eastern Town Veterinary Association. Diseases include hog cholera in Barnes City Ryat Atkins Reinbeck Moscow Preston Spragueville Lost Nation Sahron Keystone and flu in swine in Wilton Junction Keystone Lansing Elgin Lost Nation Algona Green Island Maquoketa Cascade Lowden Marshalltown Sigourney. Pulmonary infections in swine reported in Anamosa. Pulmonary edema of cattle in Tipton Bennett Lost Nation. Blackleg of young cattle in Frytown Laporte City Ainsworth Wellman. Infectious abortion of young cattle in Anamosa La Porte City Cedar Rapids Worthington Cascade Monticello Ryan Ainsworth Washington.
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