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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1919
Page
2
Market notes from Chicago on March 11 show hog receipts around 31 000 with opening bids up 25 cents from yesterday and top around 19.35. Cattle receipts about 11 000 with good demand for prime beef steers and calves slow. Lambs steady to higher with top 19.75 for choice and prime.
Furnished by BK W Wagner Co Iowa City report shows corn opening prices for Mar May and July contracts with highs lows closes around 1.44 1.42 1.57 and 1.31 and 1.28 percent indicated. Oats and corn details include cash prices for yellow oats and No 1 389 to 1.43 with slight declines and a note on percentages.
Right Honorable Massey is identified as the premier of New Zealand and described as a leading statesman in the British empire, reflecting his prominent political role.
Charley Brown conducted yesterday's auction as two year old steers brought 116 dollars and yearlings 97. A 1300 pound mare sold for 202.50 and a milk cow brought 152.50. County Agent Fedder son and bank officials led a three day farm service tour in Washington County reaching about 100 farmers with talks on marketing and income tax.
Farmers argue time measured by sun rather than clocks. An afternoon hour equals two morning hours and starts depend on dew. Harvest requires work after 7:00, while help quits at 6:00, forcing dinner at 11:00 standard time and a late lunch in peak heat. Family life and schooling suffer as chores precede entertainments and church. Merchants adjust hours for farm trade, and farmers urge city workers to start earlier without changing clocks. Carl Kennedy, Polk county agent, deems the tax as a factor.
Guy Heater of Citizens State Bank Yale pays $500 per acre for two O Rateliff farms, well above his seller’s prior $300 and $400 per acre. Yale center of Towa garden area signals rising land values.
Col I T Pryor president of the American National Live Stock Association spoke at the Denver meeting on January 21. He argued there is no great shortage of live stock and that US meat supplies are ample to meet domestic and potential foreign demand. He noted 1914 imports valued at 36.6 million and suggested war effects could again alter beef imports.
Eleven members of a Boyd County U S Department of Agriculture and Purdue coordinated club raised 1 003 9 bushels of corn on eleven acres with an average yield of 91 3 bushels per acre the best 165 9 by Howard Jammison 18. Winfred Buckley 98 6 on his acre second best. Seed corn issues solved by county agent and local bank. over 100 acres to be planted next season.
A breeders sale at J. M. Clegg's farm one mile east of Ainsworth features fifty two head including eighteen two year old bred heifers, thirteen one year olds, ten calves age eight to ten months, and ten bulls nine to twenty two months. Cattle come from top Scotch lines such as White Hall Sultan Choice Goods Avondale Cumberland Last with dams from renowned Scotch families. Catalogs available. sale day audience urged.
A brief note reports that last year the United States asked its citizens to show their reports and respond with information. The item notes civic participation and government data requests affecting households and individuals.
Citizens are urged to prove patriotism by boosting home food production. Emphasis is on growing fresh vegetables at home to offset rising costs, with a recommended plot of 30 by 50 feet capable of supplying most a family's fresh vegetables excluding potatoes. The home garden tackles transportation and marketing issues by delivering produce directly to the kitchen.
A clipped quotation from the Toledo Blade remarks on overhearing being a keen sense among neighbors. The brief item reads as a fragment reflecting social observation in a local paper style.
Early chicks mature into pullets that replace hens as flock breadwinners when molting. They lay abundantly during egg scarce periods, keeping markets supplied. To ensure a steady fall and early winter egg flow, hatch early and bypass traditional delays.
Jeffrey and Wallace and Clope Bros. announce a joint sale event. The notice calls breeders and buyers to attend, promising combined offerings from both entities. Details on date and location are not fully legible in the fragment.
The note explains how jest and joke differ. A jest is usually lighter and more scoffing, while a joke centers on the act or practical joke. The term jest often refers to what is said rather than action itself.
In a humor column snippet from the Evening Journal a husband jokes about his wife wanting to sell a prize toy terrier, while another quips the dog is so small it’s mistaken for a mouse, highlighting light domestic wit.
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