Market Report on Hogs Cattle and Sheep Prices
Hog prices mixed with heavy offerings. top hogs at 12.16, choice weights 160 to 230 lb. Sows 10.00 to 10.50. Butcher weights show 250 to 356 lb at 1190 to 1165, cows 965 to 1065, pigs 90 to 130 lb 1050 to 1175. Cattle steady to higher. best fed steers 1400 to 1600 lbs, early top 1640. Slaughter classes vary by weight, vealers 1400 to 1700, stocker steers 1225 to 1350. Sheep active. native lambs 1450 to 1475, best western fat lambs 1875 down, ewes 650 to 700, feeder lambs 1250 to 1375.
Five Reasons for Culling Your Poultry Flock
A community notice explains five reasons to cull poultry flocks to boost egg production raise average outputs lower feed costs create space and sanitary quarters for good layers and provide foundation stock for breeding. An efficient man offers free advisory services to improve local flocks.
Chicago Grain and Oil Futures Summary
Chicago March futures show wheat and corn activity with July and September positions. Wheat values range around 144 to 149 with December at about 154 while corn fluctuates near 102 to 106, oats trade around mid 40s, and lard reports incomplete data.
Doctor Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin Gains Nationwide Popularity
As a Monticello Illinois physician for 47 years Dr Caldwell focused on women children and babies with mild illnesses. His simple laxative herb formula with pepsin became Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin in 1882 and proved widely popular with mothers and households nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Illinois
Dr. Caldwell
Disease bulletin lists livestock losses across Iowa towns
Eastern Iowa livestock owners report losses from hog cholera hemorrhagic septicemia and other infections in towns including Iowa City Grundy Center Ackley Laurel Lowden and Low Moor. Disease continuities noted in swine cattle chickens and turkeys with prices and market figures at end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Iowa City
Wheatland
Grundyentre
Spragueville
West Branch
Atkins
Pleasant Plain
Ackley
Lowa City
Laurel
Furgeson
Marshalltown
Gilman
DeWit Ackley
Oxford Junction
Hinzleton
Mt. Vernon
Calamus
Brighton
Grundy Centre
Prighton
Independence
Tracer
Iowa Falls
Lowden
Hlwood
Grain price ranges for wheat corn oats barley timothy and clover
The note lists wheat prices across grades with 2 hard to 1951 4y hard and various yellow and white kernels. Corn shows yellow and white grades with percentages. Oats provide white kernel prices. Barley and timothy have price ranges, and clover is priced from 1550 to 2400.
Chicago grain prices and timothy and clover quotes
Market brief lists cash grain values for CLOVER and TIMOTHY with old and new figures. ALSIKE futures show an October price. No further context or entities provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Make Use of Your Money and Bond Opportunities
The article urges American workers to pursue financial independence through regular bond purchases and savings plans. It describes baby bonds in $100 denominations and partial payment methods, recommending Straus Brothers Investment Institute as a trusted sponsor and promising independent economic security for diligent savers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Straus Brothers — Investment Institute
Modern Married Couple Questioning Home Ownership
Berthae and Harrison Dodder recount a dialogue where a modern married couple dismiss buying a house. The wife notes a life of leisure from birth to death, seeking only a garage and a bedroom. Ed Bovee and Henry Crooks are referenced in local business and support.
Promises and Delay in a Rural Trusty Huteh Task
A fragmentary lament blends a failed vendor promise with a civic notice. A claimant accuses a man of broken word over a small carpentry task while a county newspaper lists ownership and circulation details for the Evening Journal, Washington Iowa, dated 1929.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evening Journal
Washington
Iowa
State of Iowa
Orville Elder
Elder, Shannon & Co
Washington County News Glimpses and Local Notices
Local ramblings mention Mrs. BE C. Monson reading the Washington Evening Journal in Adel Iowa and Crawfordsville updates. Notes cover Keota M Hollinger, Mr. Welsh moving, hay quality in Washington county and reflections on farming practices and training in old times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BE. C. Monson
Washington Evening Journal
Adel Iowa
Crawfordsville
Washington County Daily News
Washington County
I Will Build the Finest Chicken Coop in Town
A man named Charles Adolphus Jones declares his line is coop building. He boasts extensive study of chicken coops in Munich and Rome and promises a fine coop for a cottage, asking for an installment down and payment to start the project. He states he is not skilled with lyres or pens but confident in housing hens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Adolphus Jones
Munich
Rome
Prithee
Bob
Local Social Notes From Red Brick Area
Mr and Mrs Henrie Otto of Olds and Vernon Schiebal dined with Lloyd Neiswanger. Dorothy Babb visits her parents O E and Mrs Babb. Little David Neiswanger ill with a bad cold but improving. Wilma Ellis had tonsil and adenoids removal at Washington county hospital and is recovering well. Elsie Wagner slowly improving at county hospital. Homer Kephart plus Fred Kephart and children visited. Howard Sayre works with painters near Crawfordsville. Homer Kephart had hogs hauled to Washington. John Wagner cutting oats at Walter Crawfords. Oats cutting and haymaking delayed by rains. Young folks enjoyed a Spenser home party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Brick
Henrie Otto
Olds
Vernon Schiebal
Lloyd Neiswanger
Dorothy Babb
O. E. Babb
David Neiswanger
Wilma Ellis
Washington County Hospital
Elsie Wagner
Homer Kephart
Fred Kephart
Howard Sayre
Crawfordsville
Washington
John Wagner
Walter Crawfords
Spenser
Large English Oaks Stand at Powis Castle Park
The four mature oaks in Powis Castle Park near Welshpool form England’s largest trees. Combined they hold at least 7,000 cubic feet of timber, with the biggest trunk measuring 40 feet in circumference at ground level.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Powis Castle
Welshpool
Washington Produce Markets Poultry and Hides Prices List
Wholesale poultry and animal hide prices from Washington markets include cream at 40 cents per pound, fresh lard per dozen, leghorn hens at 17 cents per pound, spring chickens 20 to 27 cents per pound, ducks at 10 cents per pound, beef hides at 10 cents per pound, calf hides at 55 cents, horse hides at 8 dollars each, with an extra one cent per pound for poultry delivered and a note that sick or crippled birds have no market.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Chicago Livestock
Chicago Grass
VO. Qreseurtte My
Iowa Livestock Commission Company
Union Stock Yards
John A. Babcock
W. S. Reister & Sons
Disease Bulletin
Ton
Newbury
Blairstown
Low Moor
Maquoketa
Manchester
Jatley
Bennett
Elwood
Belle Plaine
Newton, Denison
Deg Moines
Clore
High
Low
Dee
Toledo Grain Market
Timothy
Alsike
Berthae
Harrison Dodder
Ed Bovee
John Wilson
Henry Crooks
Henrys
Henry
Pop
Lemmon Room
Congress
R. KE. Shannon
Paul Gorham
Carlton C. Wilson
America
M. Hollinger
Keota R
Mr. Welsh
Dad
Walt Mason
2Nd Street
R. L. Care Journal
Durant Motor Co
Call and See
Frank H. Gray
Charley Caldwell
Marguerite Hering
Gibson
Teese
R. Gillespie
Vesuvius
Mt.Vesuvius
Herbert
Washington Produce Markets
Long’s Loan & Investment Co
Johnson Co
J. M. Goodwin
Wilson & Roth
Automobile
C.v. Crull
Bailey
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