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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1918
Page
2
An old storefront advertises Fox and Dewey Cash Shoe Store offering a line of footwear for all occasions. It highlights affordable prices and a 5 percent trade-in incentive with messages about fast outfits and reasonably priced shoes in listed dollar ranges.
Estimated receipts total 104,000 with weak to slow demand across cattle hogs and sheep. Prices ranged for hogs from 16.35 to 17.95 with best sales around 17.70, cattle showing slow activity with beves 9.50 to 14.50 and cows 7.10 to 12.15, sheep steady at 11.50 to 15.00 and lambs 14.00 to 18.15 in a market described as weak to slow with some sections showing slight strength.
The pirarucu is the largest freshwater fish of Brazil, growing six to eight feet and weighing sixty to several hundred pounds. Fishermen use harpoons and begin training from early boyhood. its flesh is highly palatable and it is a staple salted product in the Amazon region.
The Journal's Farm Department reports spring efforts underway including Karr and Beranek selling stock, Harrison preparing a baby beef plant, and Smith purchasing a Hereford herd header. Notes correct an error on Beranek's hog sire, review corn grain loss, and record prep for planting wheat and oats with careful stalk management and manure value.
The column highlights Washington county farmer customs that yield profits and notes public sales and Farmers' Union updates. It mentions seed corn testing, smut treatments for wheat and oats, alfalfa with nurse crops, and invites questions with answers drawn from local farmer and stock breeder experiences.
On the Geo Sojka farm sale at the Farmers Union event southwest of Elverside, three year old green broke mules brought 500 dollars. Reid’s Yellow Dent seed corn tested 90 sold for 15 dollars, other seed offered 12.50. Oats priced 87 to 91 cents per bushel and seed potatoes 2.05 to 2.25. Seed crops and livestock sold varied from 20 to 175 dollars for animals and 70 to 117 dollars for cattle. crowd small but bidding strong. sale concluded amid brisk activity.
Meat Producers and Cattle Feeders Convention at Iowa State College March 26 and 27 will address increasing meat output with less feed and labor and improved marketing. The event, held in Ames, targets livestock farmers facing new meat production challenges in beef pork and mutton with thorough discussions and practical guidance.
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