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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1950
Page
7
Mrs. Herbert L. Hammen expresses heartfelt thanks to relatives and friends for cards letters gifts and flowers received during illness at home and during a recent hospital stay. They shall never be forgotten.
Farmers, with harvest finished, ask county extension agents about new crop varieties. Agents advise verifying that a seed is recommended and suited to the local area and at least as good as current varieties. Reliable dealers offer proven new varieties. beware high priced, untested mail order seeds.
New York attorney Dorothy Kenyon tells a Philadelphia newsman she opposes communism and its fronts and challenges Sen. Joseph McCarthy to press charges outside Congress. The remark frames McCarthyism as a political probe beyond legislative bounds.
Cornell University experiments show blue and green tinted shells from chickens. Dr J H Bruckner of the poultry husbandry department explains color varies with brown pigment, offering an alternative shell color for daring poultrymen tired of brown and white eggs.
Four of Brownie's rare bovine quintuplets survive on Ralph Tauro's Hillsdale farm in New York. The calves pose with their mother as Ralph and his son Michael stand nearby. Such a birth is exceedingly uncommon in cattle and mirrors human rarity.
Hogs sold at 15 to 25 cents higher with top loads around 16.60 for 200 to 220 lb butchers while sows and other weights varied. Sheep offerings 1,500 head with bids below 28.00 for 95 to 100 lb wooly lambs. sheep and ewes steady. Cattle and calves moderately active with steers and yearlings 29.50 to 34.50, heifers 23.00 to 26.75, cows 20.00 to 21.50. canners 12.09 to 15.00.
The Chicago grain table shows mixed trading with Corn and Soybeans moving within narrow ranges. Prices for Mar May July and Sept futures edge up and down while odd spikes appear in various contracts.
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