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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1930
Page
2
About 12 000 hogs traded in Chicago with 9 500 direct. Market uneven and mostly steady with Friday's best prices down 10 to 25 cents. Top 11.15. 170 to 220 lb pigs 10.75 to 11.00. 230 to 260 lb 10.50 to 10.75. 270 to 300 lb 10.35 to 10.60. Big butchers around 300 lb. Odd lots 9.50 to 10.25. Shippers took 1 500. estimated holdovers 2 000.
Cattle market notes show steady fed steers and strong weighty offerings with lower grades unevenly down 15 to 35 cents and fat cows down 24 to 46 cents. Sheep sales total 6,000 with fat lambs 75 to 100 cents lower and bulk lambs around 10.00 to 11.25, yearlings 7.75 to 9.00, and feeding lambs 25 to 50 lower amid light dairy calf activity.
Wheat 19 cars, corn 132 cars, oats 11 cars recorded in Chicago market receipts.
Toledo market notes on March 1 show cash grain values for Clover, domestic and old, at 10.65 and 10.80 respectively with March at 11.20. Imported and Timoth prices listed. Millet at 3.99 cash old and 3.25 cash new for March. Alsice cited at 10.40 for March.
Cash grain close reports in Chicago with bids for wheat corn oats rye barley timothy and clover. Prices listed in multiple grades and futures-like quotes across hard red spring, mixed corn grades and white oats, with ranges for barley timothy and clover.
The paper lists grain prices for Maize, Corn, Oats, Rye and Lard with bid and closing figures, followed by notice that union veterans will hold a regular meeting Monday evening at the hall, preceded by a pot luck dinner at 6:30.
Ainsworth residents swap farms with Booth buying the Parrow and Hunt moving to Bert Yard. Darbyshires relocate north of Crawfordsville to Robertson, the Donaldsons take the Mrs. Thompson place. Dale Darbyshire moves from Tingley to near Benson school with Elmer Young renting Joe Murphy place. Notson family relocates to the Eichelberger farm near Havre. Ira Graber moves to Kenneth Goff’s former site and subscribes to the Journal. Oscar George ends dairy work with February last milk day.
A one day poultry school will be held in the Wellman community hall on Wednesday March 5. The event features talks on the future of the poultry industry fighting baby chick destroyers building the egg manufacturing machine and other topics of interest to poultry raisers.
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