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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1919
Page
2
Chicago reports mixed livestock activity with hogs opening 25 cents lower on light early trade and cattle showing higher bids for beef steers and calves. Estimated receipts total about 26 000 hogs 9 600 cattle 9 000 calves and 14 000 sheep with yesterday's shipments around 3 495 for hogs and 4 328 for cattle.
Commission Merchant in Chicago Illinois invites consignments directly to yard and exchange rooms 27 to 29 main floor for livestock handling and sale. Detailed instructions and contact rooms provided for consignors and buyers.
Grain futures close report by BE Wagner & Co Iowa City covering market activity for corn wheat and oats with prices and trends for the day. Broker notes supply shifts and price movement guidance from the firm’s Hunt manager and contact details.
Albert J. Perry, naval aviator, reports he will report to Cape May as chief engineer of a dirigible balloon. The craft is planned for a transatlantic flight starting from Newcom Mend next month ending at Queenstown, with endurance tests proving feasibility.
The Washington food administration announced that time limits on licens ees selling delivering or possessing food commodities were relaxed for all items except meats. Officials said the hog price minimum agreement policy ended, removing the need for the meat regulations.
Bishop's Angus cattle led the Cedar Rapids State Breeders sale with five bulls shown in senior and junior classes. About 180 head sold for 107 170 dollars, led by Mr Musk's senior herd sire at 8100 and a top female at 2500. buyers from St Paul New Orleans and several states attended.
The county agent's office buzzes as farmers rush to file income tax reports before the deadline. County Agent Fedders on provides guidance amid high demand for his services and answers lingering questions before signatures are signed.
Iowa farmers urged to plant strawberry beds as a quick yielding crop to ease past shortages. Unlike raspberries or apples, strawberries can bear fruit within a year of planting and yield thousands of quarts per acre with proper care, helping homes and markets alike.
A fragmented market list shows prices for eyes fresh per dozen, various ages of roosters and hens, turkeys, ducks, geese, canes, Belgian hares, beef hides, calf hides, sheep pelts, horse hides, ponies, pigeons, guinea fowl, bees wax, tallow, and related commodities with per pound or per item rates.
County Agent Charles W. Martin of Clay County warns farmers to order clover seed now as prices rise and supplies shrink. He estimates choice clover around 27 dollars per bushel with Alsike about 22 dollars. many will mix medium red, Alsike, timothy to cut costs. Sweet clover is common. ensure seed is scarified before sowing.
In Springville an 50 acre Martin estate farm was rented by auction the highest bid at $20 per acre or $1000 for the tract. Arthur Martin heir made the winning bid. The sale marks perhaps the state’s highest farm rent. In Cedar Rapids H Lefebvre Sons of Fairfax sold their prize colt Duke of Elmwood for 7500 to G Keller Leet of Aurora. Leet plans using the horse to head his herd of 30 pure bred Belgians.
Holstein dairy cattle fetched high prices at Water loo sale with two herds dispersed from C. B. Mulks of Riceville and G. E. Moore of Wallingford. Mulks sold about eighty head totaling 69700 dollars highlighting a top dispersion sale west of the Mississippi.
A good lot with a five room house, cellar, wood home, fine well and cistern. Sale Saturday March 15 at 2 o'clock. Mrs Robt Edmondson D F Macon, Auctioneers.
Citizens and city residents were urged last year to grow and tend home gardens to boost food supplies for the war effort. With the war winding down and peace approaching, the movement remains a key part of sustaining victory.
The text urges widespread home vegetable gardening on farms, city yards, vacant lots, and idle lands to reduce the impact of food shortages and rising living costs. It notes the wolf of hunger remains audible in many homes until crops of 1919 are gathered and emphasizes producing part of the living at home.
A Georgia preacher recounts a parishioner's dream of entering Satan's realm where every white man holds a colored person between him and the fire. The tale is told with dialect and moral emphasis characteristic of Harper's Weekly.
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