Livestock Prices Show Mixed Trade Across Hogs Cattle Sheep
Hog receipts 13 000 brisk with most hogs 10 to 20 higher and top 11 50 paid for 190 to 200 lb choice hogs. Butchers and lighter weights 10 40 to 11 35, various weight ranges 10 25 to 11 60, sows 9 25 to 10 40, pigs 9 00 to 10 50. Cattle receipts 9 000 calves 60 trading slow, heavy steers scarce, best heavies 15 75, yearlings 16 75. Slaughter steers 14 00 to 16 60. heifers 14 25 to 16 65. cows 9 50 to 12 50. bulls 9 40 to 19 75. vealers 13 50 to 15 00. stockers 11 75 to 13 60. Sheep receipts 16 000 fat lambs 15 to 25 lower than Tuesday, natives weaker.
Washington Produce Markets Poultry and Meat Prices
Prices listed for eggs hens and leghorn varieties, ducks and geese by pound or dozen. Hides and horse hides priced per unit, plus a premium for poultry delivered. Text notes marketing for sick, thin or crippled poultry.
Livestock Prices Mixed as Lambs Hold Value
Sheep market shows steady demand with fat lambs slower. Good to choice lambs around 92 lbs fetch 14.00 to 15.25, medium 12.75 to 14.25, cull 9.76 to 12.75. Ewes 15 lbs lighter reach 4.25 to 7.26 for medium to choice, 1.75 to 5.50 for cull and common. Feeder lambs 13.50 to 14.00 for good to choice.
Chicago Gash Grain Prices for Wheat Corn Oats Barley
Grain prices list multiple commodities with varying grades and percentages. Wheat shows hard and hardy lines with 122 to 124 percent figures. Corn features mixed yellow and white lines across 100 to 108 percent. Oats and barley present white and other color varieties with 40s to 60s percent. Timothy and clover show 42 to 2509 percent ranges.
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Chicago
Toledo Seed Market Clover Prices and Dates
Seed prices listed for Clover varieties including cash aggregates and dates: October 1790 for Clover, December 1875 for Alsike, October 1675 for Alsike, December 1890 for Timothy. Also noted are cash figures 1425 for Timothy and 295 for Timothy December.
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Toledo
Legion Band Considers San Antonio Trip
Sioux City July report says the Americ an Legion Monahan post band and its drum corps may attend the national convention in San Antonio this fall. The band has 51 members and has won the convention championship for five years, with last year’s Paris award. The drum and bugle corps also hold past prizes and may travel on a special train.
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Sioux City
American Legion
Monahan Post
San Antonio
Monahan Posh
Paris
S. P. Wolcott
Busy August Ahead for Farm Bureau and 4H Activities
Farm Bureau News previews a busy August with Achievement Day on August 1 for 4H club girls, county 4H exhibits, and the Washington county chautauqua starting August 14. The Washington County 4H livestock shows feature 52 head of swine and 17 baby beef calves, with 25 involved youth. state fair runs August 22 to 31. Extension updates urge timely sprays for apples, noting worm activity and crop prospects in southern to northern Iowa, with spraying guidance from July 4 to July 20 windows and reminders of past worm trouble.
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Nnes
Chautanena
M4ith
Washington Chautauqua
Washington
Azel MelTlreth
Iowa Beef Producers Association
Washington County
Wasington County
Lowa
Agricultural Extension Service
Iowa State College
Iowa
Apple Spraying Timetable for Clean Crops This Season
Growers following orchard spray recommendations from the college reported nearly spotless fruit after a spray around August 15 to 20. Nichols notes a cool spring delaying codling moths, suggesting another spray two to three weeks later and warning that heavy rains have worsened apple scab. Use one pound lead arsenate and four quarts liquid lime sulfur per 50 gallons, applying to the fruit from two directions to ensure full coverage.
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Nichols
Mr. Nichols
Time for the fall sowing of alfalfa
Extension specialist M A Hauser urges timely fall alfalfa planting in Washington county noting August 14 as target seeding date. Key steps include manure if available acidity check lime or phosphate, prepare a firm seed bed, use good seed by August 10, drill or broadcast, and roll soil to speed germination and establish a 6 to 8 inch growth to survive winter and spring.
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M. A. Hauser
Washington
Washington County
Dairy cattle data show higher yields boost profits per cow
U S Department of Agriculture analysis of over 190 090 records finds that cows yield more butterfat and profit as annual production increases. A 100 lb producer nets 14 over feed. 200 lb 54. 300 lb 96. 400 lb 138. 500 lb 178. Larger herds raise costs but boost returns. Limestone timing offered for fall delivery. soil testing urged.
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U. S
Dep't of Agriculture
Poultry Culler to Assist Farm Bureau Members
Iowa Improvement Association expects the poultry culler to arrive soon. Members are urged to notify the Farm Bureau office at once to keep the culler busy while he is with them. Cost of culling and dipping is 3 cents per bird.
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Iowa Improvement Association
Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau Calendar for July and August
Jackson township meeting on July 26 Crawford township meeting on July 27 4H Achievement Day on August 16 Washington county Pig and Calf Club show on August 21
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Farm Bureau
Jackson Township
Crawford Township
Washington County
Fairfield Boy Fatally Run Over by Truck
In Fairfield Indiana an 11 year old boy Robert Bonnell died in a local hospital after he was struck by a heavy laden truck. The driver was not held responsible for the accident.
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Fairfield
Robert Bonnell
Hubert Ayres admits theft of nine calves in Iowa county case
Hubert W. Ayres pleaded guilty in district court to stealing nine calves and heifers from four Johnson county farms and faces up to five years in prison. Charles Parrott, arrested with him, was not ready to plead.
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Iowa City
Hubert W. Ayres
Johnson County
Charles Parrott
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Farm Bureau News
H. J. Monts
H. K. Nichols
Extension Service
Town
Firestone
Oldfield
Triangle Auto Supply Company
Washington, Iowa
Culting Service
Fairfield Boy
DFAD
Evening Journal
Journal Office
Business College
T. J. McElhinney
W. J. Reaney
Ainsworth
Smith and Barnes
Alaska Star
School House
Glee Evans
George W. Stewart
H. A. Engel
Harold G. White
Crawfordsville
R. L. Badger
E. 2Nd Street
Hubert Ayres
J. B. Crail
H. W. Blood
Close In
Geo. Young
Harry Maxwell
Des Moines
Roland Yates
Government Hospital
Knoxville
Yates
Iowa Livestock Commission Company
John A. Babcock
R. L. Gibson
W. S. Reister
E. Srd St
Eggs and Poultry
Reister
E. Wash
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