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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1919
Page
2
Chicago markets show hogs lifting to 23.35 top with bulk 21.75 to 23.25. cattle receipts about 12 000 with beef steers and cows priced across weight classes. sheep and lambs see top around 17.00 for lambs and strong feeder demand. official yesterday totals include hogs 17 839 cattle 18 436 sheep 19 720 calves 3 269.
Furnished by E. W. Wagner & Co. Iowa City. 4. B. Hunt manager. Phone 726. Corn 100 cars tone steady. No. 3 W.C. 197 1.99. Cars 200 cars tone leaf. No. 3 W. C. 80 81 percent. Clover October 31.00 December 29.30. December Coffee 21.50.
Tuesday's baseball results and standings by league with notes on games affected by rain. National League and American League listings show teams like Cincinnati and Pittsburgh in the mix, but many results were postponed or incomplete due to weather.
Journal notes call for judging work on Thursday evening with a class of draft horses at the R L Livingston farm. Monday August 25 is Farm Bureau day at the State Fair with A L Strivings as principal speaker. Members urged to register at Headquarters and reserve camp space, plus guidance on soil moisture and plowing practices.
Walter Brown of Marion Township logged 38 bushels per acre in oats and 22 bushels per acre in wheat. Geo Weigman southeast of town measured 40 bushels per acre in oats.
A local observer notes that the dirt road linking Washington and Clinton stands out as exceptional among road conditions in the White Way area of Washington County.
Clinton County Farm Bureau and Breeder Association members unite on a sales pavilion project with plans and finances in place. The building would handle all livestock sales farmers institutes demonstrations poultry shows and include offices adapted to this work.
W. D. Booth presents a sample of sprayed apples noted for smooth skin and freedom from worms. The comparison with unsprayed orchards invites evaluation of spraying profitability and benefits.
Some threshing rings report good results by using pitcher driven cars to transport crews to town for dinner. They claim the method saves time and reduces work for housewives.
Creamery managers statewide fear butter fat limits may be set at 80 percent with a 2 percent fluctuation rumor debunked by M Mortensen head of the dairy department at Iowa State College. He expects strict enforcement and notes issues with short weight by some dealers.
The piece discusses early plowing as the first step to higher winter wheat yields. It notes that although fall planting may be lower than last year, a substantial amount will still be sown. It cites Iowa State College findings that July plowing tends to produce greater yields than later summer plowing. A deeply plowed seed bed is ideal.
Polk County agent Carl Kennedy urges breeders to capitalize on looming horse shortages. He cites fewer stallions registered this year, reduced mare breeding, and low feed costs against expected future demand. He recommends breeding good draft mares to strong sires to secure quality stock for the coming market.
A look back at the 1917 1918 food conservation drive shows farmers inspecting threshing machines to curb grain waste. County farm bureaus in the wheat belt appoint inspectors classifying machines into three waste categories from under one pint per two and a half bushels to over five percent.
Of fifty six machines inspected in this county thirty six were in Class 1 sixteen in Class 2 and four in Class 3. Naturally every farmer will want a Class 1 machine to do his work and the result will be to drive out of business the Class 2 and Class 3 machines or compel their owners to fix them up so that they will be in Class 1.
The report details a profit of 67.48 dollars per acre on Richard Stephenson's Indiana farm from hogging down soybeans and corn last fall. The corn yielded an estimated 46 bushels per acre. Passports were issued for 104 purebred dairy cows sent to France, all due to freshen after arrival to supply milk.
Le Mars reports the death of Capt Rothe Moreton in Leicester England. He helped establish an English colony in northwestern Iowa during 1879 80 and ran a large ranch near Le Mars. He trained aristocratic youths from the British Isles in farming and bred hounds called pups.
An elderly English captain who served in the navy and fought in the Crimean war died at 87. He had emigrated to this country, becoming a citizen and a landowner, later traveling to Canada before returning to England. He left two sons and two daughters.
St Louis authorities report a sharp fall in delirium tremens cases since wartime prohibition began. Hospital records show fewer than a dozen sufferers treated citywide since July 1, with City Hospital admitting nearly one every thirty six hours before the law. Private institutions corroborate the drop.
Four Montevideo Uruguay stockmen visited area stock farms in Harlan Iowa and bought Aberdeen Angus cattle from the Escher and Ryan herd for shipment to South America. The party included R Par ega Reissig Hector Fernandes Roliver Fernandes and Arturo Terra Arocena with L B Burke from the US Department of Agriculture Markets.
Two Weimar brothers on the Weimar farm found a whetstone embedded inside a large poplar heart while felling the tree. They speculate the stone was placed years ago by lumbermen when the tree was a sapling and forgotten as the trunk grew around it.
The term Pathfinder was a complimentary nickname for John C Fremont in the 1856 presidential campaign praising his Rocky Mountain explorations. He did not win the presidency, receiving 114 votes to 174 for James Buchanan.
Markets push higher despite hot, dry weather as salt shortages threaten cream quality and butter fat. Milk producers are advised to salt cows, keep cream cool, and ship milk promptly to maintain test. Current prices list various dairy and animal products per pound, including eggs, cream, hens, ducks, geese, turkeys, rabbits, and hides, with ranges for Kip hides and calves.
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