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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1924
Page
2
Hogs receipts 11 600 with better grade butchers active 10 16c higher. cattle receipts 7 200 with slow trade and gains 10 to 25c on beef steers. sheep receipts 3 000 fat lambs strong to 10c higher. Top steer price about 11.90, choic e heifers to 9.16, lambs around 17.00.
Cattle receipts 4,500 with top mature steers at 11.25 and bulk at 10.50. Hogs receipts 7,000 with packer top 7.35 and bulk 7.20 to 7.35. Sheep receipts 6,000 with native springers 17.25 and wooled lambs 17.00, Texas wethers 8.65. Prices indicate steady to firm tones with variety across weights and classes.
Sioux City livestock report shows cattle receipts 2,500 slow with killers steady 10c lower and stockers steady. Fat cattle value ranges from 7.00 to 11.40, fat cows 5.56 to 6.50, feeders 7.00 to 9.00, hog prices rise to 7.15 top, 7.00 to 7.15 bulk, sows and pigs mixed, sheep receipts 100 with market details incomplete.
St Paul livestock market reports May 15 at South St Paul with cattle receipts around 2100, uneven quality and demand.
Wheat prices moved unevenly as selling pressure eased for planting prospects in Chicago on May 16, while corn values declined due to weak support. The May and July contracts showed similar near unchanged closes, with multiple regional factors influencing early trading and expectations for Ohio's harvest.
Better grades steer and he stock hold steady while plainer kinds slow. Calves receipts 900 with best lights at 8.50 to 8.76, hogs 12 000 with shippers paying 7.10 to 7.25 for 150 to 250 pounds, sows around 6.26, sheep steady with one deck choice clipped lambs unsold and bulk wooled ewes 8.50 to 9.00.
Official estimates list hogs at 20000 cattle at 3000 and sheep at 7000 for tomorrow in Chicago.
Alfalfa tours through 30 southern and southeastern Iowa counties will run May 20 to June 12 led by H W Warner of Iowa State College with Prof F G Churchill aiding. Each county gets one day to inspect best fields, promoting alfalfa sweet clover and fertilizer use with two college specialists per tour. Tours begin in Taylor Adams Adair Lucas Wayne Ap nn oose and Davis counties with plans already set in many counties.
Wheat showed limited buying and some selling with July around 1.06% and September near 1.07% as market prices stayed near the previous close. Prices dipped on corn weakness while better weather curbed corn demand. oats followed wheat downward, with early declines to about half a cent.
Washington Letter reviews Louis Ludlow's book From Cornfield to Press Gallery. It recounts Ludlow’s decades covering politics from Indianapolis to Washington and his close ties with public men. It highlights Watson, Cannon, Bristow, Marshall, Rose, and Bristow as figures in American political lore.
The report notes 44 and later modest gains, a weak close to net lower by percent, and a July percent decline. Provisions steadied as hog values rose, keeping overall prices from stronger lows.
Potatoes described as old stock with receipts totaling 64 cars for US shipments. Wisconsin round whites ranged from 1.16 to 1.30, Idaho sacks 1.50 to 1.75, Florida Spalding at 4.45, Louisiana sacks from 3.50 to 4.50, with quality noted.
A directive urges telling merchants I saw your ad in the Journal as a standard courtesy. The instruction emphasizes referencing the newspaper advertisement when contacting businesses.
Warsaw reports the diet approved a bill protecting working women and minors based on the Washington labor convention with local changes. It bans employing boys or girls under fifteen, a provision argued to conflict with Poland's constitution.
Des Moines May 14 a cooperative effort by the Iowa Department of Agriculture and the Federal Bureau of Animal Industry test 83 409 cattle in April up 300 percent from last year with cost per head cut by half. 2.4 percent of 2 089 tested were tubercular and branded with a T for identification. Condemned cattle will be killed under state and federal supervision with indemnity limited to five percent of the herd. Officials bank on sustaining low costs without hurting efficiency.
In Oakland on May 14 Mrs. Rh A White reports a Rhode Island Bed hen laid a six ounce egg about 8 to 9 inches round. Inside the shell the egg contained a large eye plus three loose yolks. The hen’s eggs had been growing larger each day before the extraordinary egg appeared.
Seals begin northward movement from Cordova Alaska with large bands seen off Cape Blanco California. Coast Guard cutter Snohomish ordered to patrol Dixomw Entrance alongside seal herds as vessels report earlier than usual migration on the North Pacific.
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