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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1929
Page
2
Market receipts total 8,500 cattle with dull weak trade on fed cattle. Prices show 200 to 360 lb ranges at 75 to 910, weights around 907 and 290 lb cited, with various grading terms used and sows mixed.
Prices for cream butterfat tests and fresh laid eggs, per dozen fowls, tons and pullets, and various poultry classes are published. Leghorns, heavy breeds, and stag roosters have per pound rates. white ducks and other items priced per pound. No market exists for sick, thin, crippled, or crippled poultry.
Receipts include light yearlings and loads of weighty steers with ups and downs in price across weight classes. Bulls and heifers fetch mixed values while stocker and feeder activity appears steady, and sheep show varied prices with top fat ewes and feeder lambs noted amid scarce feed and strong buyer interest.
The report shows hogs at 32 000 and sheep at 11 000 with wheat futures for March at 118 percent and May 1.22 percent. Corn futures for March 95 percent and May 98.15 with July at 1.00 to 1.01 percent. Lard quotes for January at 11.85 nominal, May at 12.27, with February and March cash and futures mixed. Timothy and oats values appear with cash and March cash figures, while corn and mixed values show multiple price points and percent changes from Chicago market activity.
January clipping recounts a string of small town notes from Washington Iowa including reports of Ralph Tracy excused from a petit jury, Eben Davis and Oscar Hughes seen in town, Jim Red claiming to light 300 lamps on his Rockford route with a bet tied to candy and a quart, and a long obituary for Martena Ruth Neal. It lists upcoming sales in the Brighton area and confirms roads are passable while noting Mrs. Ross Crawford and family moves and local farm news.
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