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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1919
Page
2
Estimated receipts today 29 000 hogs 35 000 cattle 4 000 sheep with second report receipts 31 000 and holdovers. Opened about 10 cents lower and mostly 15 to 25 cents lower than yesterday. Beef steers and stockers mixed contracts with various price ranges for weights and grades. Sheep steady to strong with lambs and ewes priced across multiple categories.
Close of grain futures shows May at 1.79, July 1.65 to 1.68, with repricers around 1.56 to 1.58. Corn shipments listed with 56 cars and mixed bids, No 2 Yellow S. at 1.82, oats 85 cars with slight changes, and clover futures for December around 21.99 to 22.00.
Washington May 2 The house approved a deficiency bill granting urgent appropriations of 845,044,5000 for war risk allowances to soldiers and families and war pensioners marking another record after suffrage resolution. The measure, rushed from the committee, authorizes payments of 90,615,000 for May and June to about seven million soldiers and widows, and 3,000,100 for delayed actions in the war risk insurance program.
The P. J. Donohoe Angus sale at Holbrook set a new breed price record with a cow selling for 7200 dollars. forty nine head sold averaging 2583 dollars for a total of 126567 dollars. Top cow Blackcap Lassie the 16th was bought by R W Plummer who also bought the Tudor sale top cow. Also notes soy bean trials by Edgar Patterson Roy Jones and J B Rabenold for hogging down and ensilage with various varieties.
Ross Van Nostrand of Marion township believes ensilage can profitably feed fattening cattle. He fed butcher stuff ensilage with clover hay for thirty days and small amounts of corn and meal, reporting about two pounds daily gain and five dollars per hundred weight spread with satisfactory results.
Local farmers describe successful alfalfa practices in multiple townships. Wm Deuker from Lime Creek uses Nebraska seed without inoculation or limestone and achieves up to four hay cuttings per season after early spring sowing. Other farmers like Standard and Standard cowmen in Clay township and John Boshart in Marion apply liming and inoculation and often include nurse crops to boost yields.
W S Reister & Sons publish a May 25 1919 notice from Washington Iowa stating candling law enforcement on egg buyers, urging compliance despite expense. They list prices for eggs cream poultry hides and animals and advise proper disposal of carcasses and salt drying if immediate delivery is impossible.
Laymen and scientists clashed at a Chicago conference of livestock growers and carriers over shrinkage in transit. Scientists argued loss from the alimentary canal, not tissue, while veteran handlers testified cattle hogs and sheep shrink in transit, despite claims of no tissue loss within five days after loading. A deadlock formed as parties dispute allowances for excess shrinkage due to delays.
Fragmentary OCR notes claim that serious damages to highly perishable property arise from negligence by operating officials, suggesting a basis for deficient justice.
Eighty three Guernseys sold at Florham Farms New Jersey on May 15 bringing 180275 dollars averaging 2172 per head. Florham Leader a two month old bull calf sold for 25000 dollars setting a new Guernsey record. Dam Langwater Nancy yields high milk and fat figures while Ne Plus Ultra sired the calf consigned by Herdlea Farm Pennsylvania. Purchasers included Oakes Farms Hugh Bancroft and J L Hope New Jersey with bids from Delaware California Wisconsin and Massachusetts. Follyland Nancy topped females at 12500 dollars bought by J L Hope New Jersey.
In Grosses the perfume center of southern France orange groves supply white blossoms used to make cologne water. The industry centers on the blossoms rather than fruit.
Uncle Leon comments on a man who mocks others misfortunes as Jen remarks on someone who laughs at his own trouble and takes a joke easily even when aimed at him.
In the American League Chicago edged New York 6 to 1 while Cleveland defeated Philadelphia 3 to 2 and Detroit beat Boston 6 to 3. St Louis defeated Washington 5 to 4. Other leagues show several rainouts with no games played, including Columbus-Louisville and Toledo-Indianapolis. Three I League games Moline 4 Evansville 4 and Rockford 6 Bloomington 2. Pearle Terre Haute postponed.
Dr. Tom Downing of the State Board of Animal Health urges prompt action against sheep scab amid rising spread in Iowa. The report notes the disease is highly contagious, can be eradicated with proper dipping, and coal tar dips are ineffective. It calls for reporting outbreaks and highlights effective remedies like lime sulfur nicotine dips and Black Leaf 40.
Nannie Marshall of Mystic claims she was the common law wife of Thomas Marshall who died in 1914 and has filed a partition suit in Centerville asking for one third of the estate. The case highlights the legal recognition of common law marriages in dividing an elderly estate.
Reykjavik's museum houses valuable relics of northern history including church artifacts, old Norse items, and Icelandic household goods. Some relics were taken by Denmark but the collection recalls figures like Erik the Red and Helgi the Grim from northern legend.
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