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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1921
Page
2
Chicago January 13 market receipts show hogs estimated 31 000 with holdovers 6181 and cattle 12000 sheep 18000. Beef and veal prices listed with ranges and averages for various weight classes and packing sows pigs and feeders. Official yesterday totals note receipts 27042 hogs 6998 cattle 11594 sheep 1980 calves.
Grain futures data from Morrison Building in Washington Iowa shows May and July prices for corn oats and rye with percent changes and closing figures. Chicago market notes list livestock volumes with hogs cattle and sheep, and official cash close for corn and oats is steady.
It is well authenticated that corsets were adopted not for comfort or health but to conceal physical defects.
A digest of letters and oddities from a rural trade page recounts publishing delays since 1919 due to a writer’s toothache, reader inquiries about the Monkey Wrench, belting and merchandise sales, farmer anecdotes, and a folksy dialect tale about a Swede and a Dutchman with a rambling mix of prices, requests for payment, and local trades.
At Ames experimental station five groups of 30 lambs fed 78 days with corn as sole grain produced the highest daily gain and best finish, with a margin of profit of 5.04 per lamb over feed costs. Oats and barley stocks trailed in gains and profit. The article notes soy bean seed shortages for Iowa farmers and details regional corn yield contest results led by Clyde Black of Dallas county with 94.8 bushels per acre in the 1920 contest.
A long list of public and closing out sales with dates from January to February. Entries name buyers sellers and locations around Washington, Keota, Ainsworth, Columbus Junction, Riverside, Crawfordsville and nearby towns. Poultry and hog sales noted alongside estate and stock pavilion events.
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