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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1920
Page
2
Estimated receipts hogs 8000 with holdover 7750. Cattle 1500, sheep 6000. Market strong to 15 higher. hog top 14.90, most 14.00 to 14.75. Weights vary across hog classes with multiples listed. Week comparisons show steers up to 75, cows steady, calves and stockers up to 40. Total receipts hogs 24,584 cattle 8,319 sheep 7,411 calves 941. Shipments include hogs 7,040 cattle 2,982 sheep 1,563 calves 96.
Grain futures wrap up with market data furnished by EK W Wagner Co of Iowa City Iowa and J B Hant manager with phone 726.
Local page invites readers to submit farm items including shipments of livestock public sale prices and special farm activities. Call or mail Journal office with noteworthy items from the neighborhood for consideration.
A contest at Monmouth College chose two representatives per class for the yearbook Ravelings. Among eight selected, Ruth Pierce is a sophomore girl and David Livingston a freshman boy, with two from Washington.
A Keota subscriber expresses regret at the departure of Mr and Mrs A M Anderson and their son Arnold who will relocate to Brighton. The Andersons are parents of Mrs Owen Grecian of Washington and Keota residents hope they may return in the future.
A fragment quotes John Hall observing frozen pools and streams in winter. The piece ponders why running water freezes and claims streams have other aims beyond standing still, hinting at a reflective, poetic aside on nature.
Journal item lists numerous closing out and public sales in Washington and area from Feb 23 to March 10. It notes many sellers and locations with sale dates and mentions a large sale at O. H. Davis Grove Iowa where prices fell as demand slackened. A Clegg bull sold for 500 dollars and top bull brought 8000 dollars.
Clegg Brothers of Ainsworth return from Chicago with eight Shorthorns sold at the Shorthorn Congress. A 550 head consignment drew buyers nationwide. Cleggs’ four bulls and four heifers averaged high prices with top animals near 1700 dollars and the first prize female selling for 2800 dollars at Linn.
Amid eastern blizzards delaying freight, egg and butter markets rise while deliveries are urged. Producers are asked to send cream to the uptown station for Washington Butter production, with payments per pound listed and a note to deliver often and keep cream cool. Furs are also sought with high pay for hides and furs converted into robes, rugs, coats, and custom ladies’ furs.
Last Saturday Will Twinam delivered 12 hogs weighing 4100 pounds to Muscatine in a big truck with Clarence Young. The six hour trip highlights how high freight rates may push farmers to buy trucks.
A Webster county trial turned a carload of western steers onto a 43 acre sweet clover field for thirty-one days and then plowed under the crop. Each head gained 100 pounds over the period, impressing farmers who observed the animals at the start and end of the four weeks.
A farmer in northeastern Towa uses straw or spoiled hay scattered in field draws during winter when snow covers ground. The snow holds the melt water until higher ground washes have passed, protecting low-lying, muddy areas from early spring erosion.
A Bureau of Animal Industry study shows hogs infested with lice eat more, waste energy rubbing and restlessly move about, and produce less meat. Across three 3-month trials with 20 to 30 hogs each, feeding lice-infested hogs cost up to $2.94 more per hundred pounds of pork, while losses in weight and blood intake explain reduced efficiency.
End of the experiment shows the lousy hogs at 2872 pounds and the clean hogs at 3150 pounds. The clean hogs consumed 203 pounds more feed than the lice-affected animals. The Department of Agriculture offers farmer publications on removing lice from hogs.
W G Robertson returned home from Cedar Falls where he attended the Consolidated schools convention. Mr and Mrs W K Marsh of Winfield visited here yesterday. Kiwyn Davidson was a Washington visitor yesterday. J C Huston was in Columbus on business and reports his brother Toward is improving.
A public auction will be held at the seller's farm located 60 miles northeast of Wayland, 4 miles southwest of Crawfordsville, and 4 miles northwest of Oldson. The sale is designated as Closing Out Sale 1 with items offered at the farm.
Wednesday sale features multiple horses including grey Percheron mare in foal, black mare, gray filly, and various geldings with weights listed. Also cows with calves, Jersey cow, spring calves, brood sows, lambs, poultry, hay, implements, wagons, harness, furniture, stove, and household items. Terms announced day of sale.
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