Markets Open With Mixed Cattle and Hog Prices
Chicago June 14 hogs receipts 7 500 holdover 3 065. cattle 500. sheep 9 000. Market mostly 15 or more above yesterday's average, top 21 25. Heavy 250 lbs up 20 80 21 15. medium 200 250 lbs 20 20 18 75 20 85. light 150 200 lbs 18 75 20 85. Pigs 130 lbs down 17 75 18 75. Cattle steady to mixed with beef steers about steady, fat cows 25 cents lower, bulls 25 50 cents higher, veal calves 1 50 1 75 higher. Direct to packers weights softer for fat shorn lambs and springs. sheep and yearlings off 25 cents. feeders steady.
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Chicago
Grain futures close steady as markets hold tone
Commodity notes from FE Wagner and Co Iowa City report corn at 1.77 percent, 160 car lots, unchanged tone. No 3 wheat around 69 to 70 percent. Clover futures show October at 21.70 and December at 21.60.
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V.C
W. O
Salvation Army reaches China with doughnut campaign progress
Commissioner Charles H. Jeffries reports the Salvation Army is making strides in China with a doughnut program, noting 2,000 recruits converted as he returns to San Francisco after years of service in Northern China.
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China
Salvation Army
Charles H. Jeffries
San Francisco
Jeffries
Pavilion Plans Arise From County Breeders Meeting
A county Breeders Association meeting at the Farm Bureau office approved a plan for a new sale pavilion. Attendance was good and a full project account will appear in a future Journal. Animal losses this year include 415000 horses, 2247000 cattle, 1128000 swine, and 1606000 sheep from disease and exposure, totaling more than 200 million dollars at average animal values.
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County Breeders Association
Farm Bureau
Prizes Announced for Corn Club Members Next Year
Armour & Co of Chicago has placed a substantial sum for prizes to be distributed by state leaders. The Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers' Association adds 275 dollars. In addition to these prizes, county champions will receive the usual trip to the International at Chicago.
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Corn Club
Armour & Co. of
Chicago
Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers’ Association
Wagner Weekly Review predicts 1919 grain shift and market cautiousness
The June 14 1919 Wagner Weekly Review surveys corn oats and wheat prospects for 1919 with notes of a new corn crop premier status and late crop portions. It highlights rain effects on crops US and UK drought fears heavy butter and lard stocks and rising July lard on European needs. It warns of inflation fed by credit expansion and government supplies while forecasting a free wheat market with limited storage and fluctuating grain movements.
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United States
England
Europe
Argentina
Australia
Demand for Dairy Men From Iowa State Grows
Dairy students from Iowa State College are highly sought after with over two hundred requests received in the last year. Colleges seek heads of dairy departments and instructors while plants need superintendents managers and shop personnel.
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Iowa State College
Disease Mortality Among Farm Animals Falls Below Ten Year Average
Reports from the Bureau of Crop Estimates show farm animal losses from disease for the year ending spring 1919 were below the ten year average across horses and mules cattle swine sheep and lambs, with specific rates for each species and notes on exposure effects. Cattle losses due to exposure rose above the ten year average while sheep losses stayed under.
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United States
Bureau of Crop Estimates
United States Department of Agriculture
Washington County Butter Egg Market Reports Record May Receipts
The Butter Egg and Poultry firm of W S Reister and Sons notes demoralized butter and egg markets despite higher prices and record May receipts totaling 78 856 19 dollars. They cite large production in Washington County and pay cash for producers like R B Custer for May 1919, with prices listed for butter fat cream chickens turkeys hides and other goods.
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Washington County
United States
Custer
Washington
Baker Anxious To Retire In Private Life
Secretary of War Baker told a Hotel Biltmore luncheon crowd he longs to return to private life. He recounted war stories including Joffre’s 1917 estimate of American troops and said both he and Grosvenor Clarkson want to quit the Council of National Defense.
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New York
Baker
Hotel Biltmore
Marshal Joffre
Petire
Grosvenor T Clarkson
Mr. Baker
Council of National Defense
Ife
Pearl Long Valued as Jewel in Nature Formed Pearl
The pearl is prized as a natural jewel worn without cutting unlike diamonds rubies emeralds or other stones. It is described as among the most ancient and precious gems taken directly from the oyster shell, valued for its untouched form.
General Candido Aguilar Seeks Mexican League Entry
Gen Candido Aguilar son in law of President Carranza sails for Paris to push Mexico into the League of Nations. He formerly served as a Vera Cruz estate hostler and later as an officer in the Madero forces rising to major and, after marriage, to general with charge of the Vera Cruz district.
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Candido Aguilar
Carranza
Paris
Mexico
League of Nations
General Aguilar
Vera Cruz
Madero
Stop Potato Wart Disease Or Lose Millions
Potato wart disease threatens the U S potato industry with potential losses of millions annually if not eradicated. The disease is imported from Europe and appears in eyes of tubers, spreading through soil, infected potatoes, and contaminated waste.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Europe
United States
Preventive Measures for Potato Wart Disease
Instructions urge strict prevention of potato wart spread through burning warts boiling diseased tubers before feeding to livestock avoiding replanting in infected soil for eight years and reporting suspicious cases to county agents state stations or the USDA. Authorities seek grower and dealer cooperation while experiments search for control methods.
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State Agricultural Experiment Station
United States Department of Agriculture
Telephone Tattle and the Cant of Crime
A brief note on phrases used by thieves and beggars, explaining that "struck by lightning" signals arrest by police during a robbery, with information conveyed via the telephone.
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Seocond
John A. Babcock
Yard
Illinois
Ss. B. Watson Veterinarian
Ainsworth
Iowa
Close OF Grain Futures
FE. W. Wagner & Co
Iowa City
B. Hunt
Chichester
Journal’s Farm Department
Wagner Weekly Review
Mutual
W.S. Reister & Sons
Washington, Lowa
the Evening Journal
Thomson
Los Angeles
Cal
United States Army
America
Pershing Stadium
Joinville
France
St Occidental College
Telephone
Lemmon’s
J. E. Lemmon
Washington, Iowa
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