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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1919
Page
2
Chicago market snapshot shows open steady with yesterday’s averages. Hogs demand mixed with weights varying. best heavy butcher hogs firm to higher while lighter types steady. receipts yesterday 24,476 and shipments 4,557. Cattle receipts 1,900 with gains on beef and butcher stock. sheep shows fat lambs and yearlings 25 to 50 higher. feeders firmer.
Grain futures figures supplied show February May and July contracts with closing prices 65 35 21 and 17.85 respectively. Data provided by BE Wagner & Co Iowa City with manager B Hunt and contact 726.
The Ruthenian people inhabit eastern Austria and southeastern Poland with Greek liturgy in Slavonic, while Roman Catholics adhere to Rome. A secular clergy uses St Basil, and the article notes the cross-border literary linkage to West Russian poets in Canada.
A detailed public sale schedule lists farms near Washington, Kalona, Ainsworth, and surrounding towns with dates from Feb 3 to Feb 27. The report highlights cattle prices, including Holsteins and Guernsey cows, and notes top bidders J. B. Ross & Son and Ralph Tracy. It also covers a Washington County Breeders' association meeting at the Commercial club rooms with a call to local breeders to unite and advertise.
L H Rinner of Noble visited the city and noted several Duroe sales, highlighted H G Vogel of Lowell in Henry county selling fifty head of cattle at an average of ninety dollars per animal.
The Crandall Brothers sale near Brighton off Duree Jersey pasture sows averaged $67.50 on 35 head. The top sow sold for $127.50 with brisk bidding. Part of the stock belonged to Harry Crandall, recently deceased, sows run on pasture until soon before the sale and not in ideal selling condition. Buyers were present and prices were satisfactory. Aus Sutherland acted as auctioneer.
The G. M. Humble auction showed solid demand for dairy cows as 15 head were sold at averages near 150 dollars per animal. The top offering fetched the highest price of the day.
The Iowa State College farm crops section cautions unexperienced growers about broom corn profitability and notes a looming labor shortage. It urges planting strawberries for home and market use, citing easy cultivation, strong yields, and year two harvests, with guidance from the extension department.
Farmers faced poor crop quality and prices dipping below production costs as many planted extensive acreage with optimism for high returns. The downturn impacts livelihoods and prompts calls for adjustments in planting and market strategies.
The rough feed strategy urges farmers to route straw corn stover and coarse hay through cattle or as bedding after offering them to livestock. It recommends cheaper seeds for beef cattle during wintering, such as well cured corn stover, straw and hay with one to two pounds of cottonseed meal, ensuring intake is hearty.
The undersigned will sell at public sale at his residence located 1 1/2 miles southwest of Cotter and 4 1/2 miles east of Ainsworth starting at 10 a m on Tuesday February 4 1919. Six head of horses consis ting of.
A sale lists twenty one head of livestock including five cows and six calves with other cattle, sheep and two horses. Grain hay machinery and farming gear are offered such as corn, hay, plows, wagons, buggy, harness, coops and chickens. Usual terms and Wheeler lunch. John Pisher auctioneer and S. A. Stephens clerk.
Landowners Charles Horak Floyd C Letts Judge F D Letts Mrs Richard Hughes Kolosick Bros prohibit hunting trapping or trespass on their property and no shooting after night around homes. Published in Letts area. February 15.
Washington February 1. High prices and increased production push the total value of U S farm crops in 1918 to 14 090 769 000 dollars, the Bureau of Crop Estimates reports. Illinois leads in value, with Iowa, Texas, Georgia, Minnesota, Ohio, North Carolina, Indiana, Missouri, Pennsylvania following in ranking. Nebraska not shown.
The text notes a team that held seventh place in 1917 dropping to seventeenth, and California slipping from tenth to twenty first. It also cites the 1909 census bureau data that thirteen principal farm crops valued at 11,125,996,000 in 1918, forming about 80 percent of county crop values, with total crop value given as a hypothetical estimate.
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