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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1921
Page
2
Estimated receipts today show hogs at 16 000 cattle 8 000 sheep 6 000 cattle markets mostly 25 cents higher with heavy weights up to 9 75 top 9 75. Beef steers and veal calves strong prices noted with feeders and stockers active. receipts total 44 611 hogs 16 200 cattle 6 289 sheep 1 937 calves 46 shipments 6 670 312 3150 46.
Homely sincere letters from women praising health restored by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound appear in this paper. Advertisements note many readers publish their gratitude to encourage other women suffering from female ailments to try the remedy.
More than 200 farmers attended the Farm Crops and Soils Field Day at Iowa State College June 29 to study soil management and crop experiments. Demonstrations covered five to two year rotation plots, Hubam clover findings, and predictions of 100 to 125 percent yield gains on treated plots. Poultry self feeders and a nurse crop with oats were discussed for pasture and housing.
Brindley head of the economics department at the college will oversee the conferences. All Iowa county agents are expected to attend one of these meetings. The Agricultural Experiment Station in Ames, Iowa, reports a notable cattle sale in Shelby County. Longbranch farm at Harlan sold for $200,000 to Joseph Michener of Council Bluffs, at $6 500 per acre, including $100,000 in improvements such as barns sheds and granaries.
July 6 report shows a 40 percent rise in early reservations for the Swine department of the Iowa State fair. Over 800 pens have been reserved, breaking records. advance registrations for cattle, horses, and sheep also rise though not as sharply. Officials anticipate agricultural features to dominate the exposition.
A 1920 census note highlights a large influx of Japanese residents into California. The piece tracks abrupt demographic changes and their implications for the state’s communities and workplaces.
Fresh laid eggs per dozen are listed alongside butterfat cream priced by pound. Various poultry items appear with per pound quotes including roosters and old toms, ducks, and geese. The text contains garbled fragments but indicates a rural market catalog with multiple poultry goods and compact pricing.
The excerpt notes 1911 census figures with 71 952 versus 41 366 in 1910, and a race breakdown including 38.7 negroes, 17 260 Indians, 28 813 Chinese, 56 263 other races, plus 3 264 711 whites. The prior decade records a 44.6 percent rise in white population.
A London Post quip notes a distinguished clergyman keeps two maids named Kate and Kite to avoid confusion. The Cockney and the Scot are differentiated by the simple naming trick with no mixups reported.
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