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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1952
Page
7
Missouri University agronomists report fertilized soil tolerates beating rains with rapid drainage and little runoff while unfertilized soil on adjacent plowed field cracks and loses topsoil. The Sanborn Experiment Field in Columbia shows fertilized rows remaining intact after a heavy shower.
Jonas Stubborn keeps the house while Abbie frets over change as Mr. Golstein buys his carved ships. Golstein offers an order for a hundred figures, and Jonas plans to let the boarders go to keep Abbie company in the kitchen.
Prof Grant B Snyder of the University of Massachusetts predicts farm wives will work alongside husbands, citing records from the National Junior Vegetable Growers Association. The NJVGA runs a year long apprenticeship training in 46 states, funded by A and P with six thousand dollars in annual scholarships. In 1951 over 40 percent of 148 winners shared the prize melon. The 1952 NJVGA contest is open to youths aged 12 to 21 and expected to be the largest yet.
Hogs receipts 16 000 moderate activity steady to higher with advances on over 230 lb butchers and sows most choice 180 230 lb 23 50 24 00 240 260 lb 22 75 25 45 270 300 lb 21 50 22 75 few loads up to 404 lb down to 18 00 sows 350 lb and under 10 50 21 00 Sheep steady with top spring lambs 24 50 bulk choice to prime 29 00 29 50, choice fed lambs and yearlings 24 50 Cattle receipts 14 000 calves 400 slaughter steers heifers cows slow to the lower. bulls steady vealers steady stocker and feeders steady load prime around 1100 lb fed steers 35 50 bulk prime fed steers and yearlings 51 50 54 50 low loads 34 75 58 00 prime heavy steers bid under 32 66 good to low choice steers 28 50 31 00 low commercial down to 25 00
The column shows mixed futures: corn, oats, soybeans with September and May contracts cited. Percent changes and price hints appear inconsistent across months, with several off specifications and scattered figures for soybeans and oats.
Fourteen privately owned toll roads still exist in the United States, most serving access to mountain tops or seashore resorts. They total 714 miles in length.
A 34 foot wave stirred by gales swept Sunday fishermen and their families into the sea. The storm lasted three minutes. Rescue boats from power launch owners, lobster men, Coast Guard, and livery shuttles ferried victims to safety. fourteen hospitalized with no critical injuries.
Weekly livestock auctions at Midway Sales Company in Columbus Junction and Kalona Sales Barn Kalona with Ollie Livestock Exchange in Ollie Iowa. Household goods sale at the house of Ite West Chester August 4 at 1 30 p m. Evening sale begins 6 30 p m. Mrs Mary Cougett 314 miles southwest of West Chester. Marion Wells.
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