Market opens with strong cattle and hog prices in Chicago notes
Estimated receipts today total 35 000 hogs and cattle with six thousand nine hundred fifty hog holdovers and twelve thousand cattle and sixteen thousand sheep. Prices show gains across beef and hogs with top hogs at 22 85 and cattle up to 16 25 for mid weights. Feeder and stocker classes steady to higher with veal calves around 18 50 to 19 09. Sheep and lamb markets mix but lift on top grades.
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Chicago
Market Report from Iowa City Commodities Desk
Furnished by E. W. Wagner & Co Iowa City indicates daily prices for commodities such as corn oats and coffee. The report shows bid ask movements with oats and corn prices listed and notes tones of market steadiness or slight uptick for select lots. December coffee priced at 22.50.
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E. W. Wagner & Co
Iowa City
Iowa
B. Hunt
Understanding Each Other in Social Exchange
Those who fancy themselves not understood by colleagues may find solace in the idea that others are not as mysterious as believed. We are not so complex or peculiar, and perhaps not worth the effort we demand from others. Exchange.
The Second Cheshire Cheese Destroyed in Great Fire
The celebrated London tavern near Fleet Street known with Doctor Johnson was destroyed by the great fire of 1004, leaving its original building gone.
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London
Fleet Street
Doctor Johnson
Barley Drive Seeks Seed for County Exhibit
Farm Bureau notes urge residents to donate barley for the County Exhibit at the State Fair. An extension report promotes limestone on alfalfa ground, claiming a near perfect stand. It also details formaldehyde seed treatment to curb wheat scab and praises Rosen rye grown by J M Soukup with certified seed and pure Rosen variety.
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John Speidel
Riverside
Washington
I. N. Melthus
Farm Bureau to offer free engineering help in county
A Farm Bureau program will bring a farm engineering specialist to the county to assist with building drainage sewage disposal and related problems. Names on the service list include E S Bishop Wellman Heil Wellston Joe Knotek Ernest Carlson Washington and Marc Crandall of Brighton. Bishop plans an Angus cattle barn with quarters for purple blooded cows in the 4000 class. Knotek aims for a homestead while Carlson Crandall plan homes for the Orions and Pathfinders. Heil plans to remodel a barn with a history. Call the Farm Bureau office to request the free service.
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Farm Bureau
Bishop
Wellman
Heil Wellston
Joe Knotek
Ernest Carlson
Washington
Marc Crandall
Brighton
Knotek
Carlson and Crandall
Orions
Pathfinders
Mr. Heil
Farm Bureau Office
Whiting Family Owns Iowa’s Largest Farm at 14000 Acres
Iowa Farmer reports the Whiting family holds the state’s largest farm, 14 000 acres in Monona and Woodbury counties along the Missouri River. The estate sits on high bluffs with a grove and a well cultivated yard, including a $40 000 church, gym, kitchen, and library. The Whitings, descended from Hon. Charles E. Whiting, own multiple families, 25 automobiles, and a four hundred acre summer retreat in the northern woods. The Adams ranch near Odebolt at 6,820 acres is the next largest.
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Iowa
Whiting
Monona
Woodbury
Missouri
Whitings
Charles E. Whiting
Adams Ranch
Odebolt
Poultry Flock Culling Demonstrations Planned
A specialist will visit farms in the fall for three daily demonstrations on culling flocks. Owners should record eggs laid two weeks before and after culling to assess results. Call for expressions of interest.
Co operative wool marketing plan aids rowers
Specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture urge wool growers to pool their fleece to boost value. The plan covers organizing selling clubs, selecting a sales manager, funding, delivery dates, grading, and record keeping to ensure better prices and a permanent cooperative market for wool.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Co-Operative Marketing Association
No Scrub Poultry in Iowa Says Greater Iowa
A Washington DC poultry worker claimed Iowa has poor stock. The Greater Iowa rebuttal argues Iowa leads in purebred stock for horses cattle and hogs and that scrub poultry is nearly extinct across the state, with clean flocks common in towns and farms.
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Washington, D. C
Iowa
Daily Papers
Tractor Plowing Has Its Problems
Washington July 10 Farmers Bulletin 1045 from the U S Department of Agriculture details two tractor plowing methods. It covers field layout headlands and turning radii to avoid wasteful travel and to ensure straight furrows when plowing with multiple plows.
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Washington, D. C
United States Department of Agriculture
Butter Eggs and Poultry Buying Station Ad
An old advertising notice from Phone 116 Mutual 12 W S Reister & Sons outlines butter eggs cream and poultry buying in Washington Iowa. It lists buy prices for eggs cream hens spring chickens geese ducks rabbits hides and hides values and notes two locations under Harold Hays management.
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East Third Street
North
Iowa Avenue
Eges
Harold Hays
Suggestions for Preparing Fleece
Instructions on when to shear and how to handle wool to preserve length. Emphasizes dry conditions, clean surfaces, keeping fleece intact, and proper packaging using twine and wool sacks. Recommends dry storage and avoidance of foreign matter contact.
Wool sorting guidance on preventing color mixing and grading
Instructions emphasize keeping white and black wool separate, avoiding mixing, and dividing dirty or coarse fleeces from clean, well-grown wool. Pack each grade separately and never mix full grades, enforcing careful separation and handling practices.
Device Maintains Equal Humidity in Cigar Storage
A new device uses an electric fan to push air through a water soaked absorbent box to keep humidity uniform in cigar cases vaults and other moisture required areas.
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John A. Babcock
Yard
Illinois
Close OF Grain Futures
Chey
Chichester
Journal’s Farm Department
Farm Bureau Notes
J. M. Soukup
Highland Township
Michigan
Towa
Mutual
W.S. Reister & Sons Cash Day
Washington, Lowa
iSe
Willi Fa da
Safety Can
Oneover Co. P
Cluett, Peabody & Co, Inc
Troy, N
Lemmon’s
J. E. Lemmon
Washington, Iowa
Nebraska
Union
Dawes County
Burlington
Missouriiver
Chadron
Houghton & Patterson
Chadron, Nebraska
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