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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1919
Page
2
Unsettled week for Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri Valleys with occasional rains and snows. Temperatures expected below normal across Des Moines and surrounding area.
Hogs seen opening slow with steady early sales and large Saturday average. Estimated receipts 42 000. Cattle strong for beef steers and butchers stock with calves down. Lambs opening steady to higher with best lambs rising. Receipts Saturday vary by category across hogs cattle and lambs.
Secretary Claas urges backing the Victory Liberty Loan, stating peace financing may be costly and urging public support as wartime ends and postwar funding begins. The message emphasizes unity and civic duty in sustaining national finance.
Iowa farm sale announcements list March dates for Poland China and other stock sales near Washington and Brighton. A Columbus Gazette note reports Tucker Bros. earned over 1500 dollars from a hay crop, while agricultural bulletins discuss fuel use in tractors and a Clay County boy’s pig club success with a 92 day gain of two pounds per day and a final profit of 28.87 dollars.
Carl Craig reports a new farm record as one sow from the A. H. Gerot herd River side Leader farrowed nineteen pigs last Wednesday night. The unusual litter highlights high productivity on the farm.
On February 21 W H Cooper of Hedrick Iowa held a major hog sale. One hundred four head sold for $16 805 averaging $161 per hog. The first fifty averaged $221 with multiple buyers listed including J Davis of Wyman Richard Thomas of Cot ter and W K Henss of Wayland.
Officials of the United States Department of Agriculture urge stricter enforcement of livestock import quarantine to prevent spread of two contagious equine diseases ulcerative and epizootic lymphangitis. War-torn Europe soils raise infection risk for thousands of war horses demanding intensified safeguards.
Reports from several hundred farmers, compiled by the United States, indicate tractors burn about 2 percent of a gallon per acre for plowing in the Dakotas. This efficiency figure comes from field observations used to gauge farm fuel use.
On Trinidad Island a thriving lizard farm operates with equipment for breeding these reptiles. The venture ties into a broader effort to source foods that could boost the world sugar output.
The French Legion of Honor is described as the largest order of merit in the world with a little over 500000 members.
A cactus species prolific in Algeria has been engineered by French researchers to produce 14 percent sugar content and about 60 percent alcohol, enabling high yields from this plant.
A wartime urges Americans to back the Victory Liberty Loan and honor national debt. The speaker recalls a German submarine drama and stresses law, order, and aid to those bowed by intolerance. Americans must pay and support the loan until the job is finished.
Randall Parrish urges readers to support the Victory Liberty Loan, urging oversubscription to honor returning soldiers and the dead. He notes the sacrifices of aviators, doughboys, and gunners and calls for continued duty until all veterans come home and the war is finished.
The Federal Reserve and Food Administration back a $2.26 per bushel wheat price for 1919, encouraging record wheat output. Farmers report strong finances from 1918 crops with corn, hay, apples and other farm products contributing vast sums. Officials urge buying Victory Liberty Loan bonds to support soldiers and complete the war effort.
New York March 17 preliminary action in a stockholder suit against James Everard breweries to test the wartime prohibition act. Joseph F. Everard seeks restraining orders to prevent May 1 shutdowns and July 1 sales, contending emergency provisions are unconstitutional after armistice ends. He argues Congress had no power to curb beer and near beer production or restrict alcohol limits. He is a Plainfield, New Jersey stockholder alleging directors plan compliance would wreck profits.
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