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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1921
Page
2
Chicago June 11 hogs 7 000 lead the early trade with 7 holdover. Cattle receipts 6 soakers. hogs locally active and steady. Wheat futures open higher with July at 1.55 to 1.58 and corn around .63 to .64. Cash grain bids rise modestly amid hot wave forecast across grain belt.
Washington June 10 The Bureau of the Census released preliminary 1920 figures with 1918 comparisons showing the United States had 69,368,167 swine on farms on January 1 1920. It breaks down 26,237,924 pigs under six months 11,445,239 breeding sows and gilts 6 months plus 934,553 breeding boars 20,750,451 other hogs.
The report ranks states by hogs and pigs on farms. Iowa shows 7 864204 hogs in 1920, followed by Illinois Missouri Indiana Nebraska and Ohio, each over 3 million. Kansas drops in 1920. Oklahoma also declines. Mountain states rise in hog numbers.
Jude Given longtime Rock Island railroad executive from Des Moines died at a Iowa City hospital yesterday afternoon aged 63. Born in Des Moines in 1868 he began as a brakeman on the Des Moines Valley line later became conductor trainmaster and finally superintendent with the Des Moines Valley and after consolidation served in leadership on the Rock Island system's Des Moines Keokuk Ruthven Minnesota divisions and Cedar Rapids headquarters.
James R. Howard of the American Farm Bureau Federation addressed Iowa bankers at the 35th annual convention. He urged cooperation between banking and farming, criticized the federal reserve, called for extended credit to farmers, and outlined plans for a cooperative grain marketing financing system to reduce distribution costs and aid agricultural credit.
Jud Tunkins explains that widespread fear of work stems from our bashfulness about getting acquainted, suggesting social hesitation underlies reluctance to engage in labor. The remark frames work anxiety as a personal shyness issue rather than a purely economic or moral problem.
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