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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1922
Page
2
Market reports show mixed movement with receipts of cattle hogs and sheep. Beef and dairy products held unevenly higher while cattle and hog futures vary by weight and grade.
R L McGugin spent two months in the east and returned home yesterday. Mr and Mrs George Stewart traveled to Excelsior Springs for a short stay. Mrs Fred Stewart learned of her daughter Hazel Stewart Alberson’s fever illness in Huston Texas and set out for Texas. Harvey Meek Ralston Miss Alice Meek Miss Ella Warren and Mrs Frohm went to Iowa City last night to see the fall festival crowd and decorated stores with a Rothschilds band and five models drawing a large audience.
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Miss A Sorum, Hamilton county superintendent of schools, addressed the Hamilton county Farm Bureau extension group in Webster City on hot lunches for school children and the need for a school nurse. Pest alerts in Iowa focus on sweet corn borers as specialists plan statewide visits. In Ames, experts say cash rented farms are declining while share leases rise, with landlords more engaged in farming and crop rotation to protect soil.
In Dubuque county farm Bureau bulletin J J Warren warns TB is widespread in state poultry flocks. The article suggests control steps such as culling infected birds, disposing of carcasses, avoiding old hens, proper pen density, rearing chicks away from a mother hen, and buying stock from healthy flocks.
A seven member committee of the Dubuque county farm bureau has recommended a site for a stock sales and livestock exhibit pavilion. Estimated land cost is 12 000 dollars and a modern building is planned at about 30 000 dollars with facilities for stock sales and livestock exhibitions.
Keosauqua reports limestone deposits in Van Buren county suitable for agricultural lime. Recently two car loads of fine ground stone were crushed near Farmington and shipped countywide. One car used on Alva Arnold’s farm and another on F. F. Silver’s land near Cantril. Crusher Elmer Henshaw of Farmington moves to Croton for railroad access.
Tipton reports Cedar county beekeepers received a demonstration course in beekeeping by a county department expert. The session showed several methods for introducing Italian queen bees to existing hives and noted the addition of multiple new queens to local apiaries.
Leon today reports J. J. Callan W. J. Neville and F. L. Ressler are scouting Iowa fields for signs of the European corn borer under joint direction of the Iowa State College entomologists and the U S Bureau of Entomology.
Dubuque Iowa October 6 Iowa classifies the barberry bush as outlaw with no more right than bootlegging gear. It may be received sold shipped or bought only as a misdemeanor punishable by fine. The state entomologist must eradicate barberry and may charge farm owners for removal if they refuse after written notice.
About one hundred acres of sweet corn supply a local canning factory in Sac City Iowa. The factory processes 100 to 150 loads daily and has produced over a million cans since the season began. The Sac County Farm Bureau director, who visited, says the corn was contracted by the company.
Boone county farmers are advised by the Farm Bureau to sow more fall rye for early spring pasture. Experts say rye outperforms other pastures at that season and Rosen rye yields nearly as much as wheat, per the bureau bulletin.
In Sac City Iowa on October 6 officials describe a traveling library program that also teaches farmers new agricultural methods. The initiative combines library services with practical farming education to reach rural residents.
The Traveling Library Commission, via the county farm bureau, loans agricultural books for two weeks. Titles include Manuel of Gardening, Foods and Sanitation, Diseases of Animals, Success With Hogs, Handy Devices and How to Make Them, Rural Science Series, Farm Management, Feeds and Feeding and The Management and Feeding of Cattle. Demand for the volumes is brisk.
A bovine of sorts and a tale of transformation From an undersized awkward foal to a Hollywood star Tony the horse rises with Tom Mix in Just Tony based on Max Brand Alcatraz fans expect a hero in a chestnut horse who outgrew an ugly duckling stage and inspired a bronze West statue.
The third newspaper conference district covering Worth Mitchell Howard Cerro Gordo Floyd Chickasaw Franklin Butler Bramer Black Hawk and Grundy will hold its annual meeting in Waverly October 7 with T. W. Purcell of the Hampton Chronicle presiding.
State of Iowa district court in Washington County fixed for hearing the will of William Roberts filed October 1922. The hearing set for 9:00 AM at the Washington court house before the district court or clerk. Dated September 5 1922. J D Glasgow clerk of district court. Frances and Juanita Rosenberger visited Ralph Robertson's home in West Chester last evening.
Fragmentary price data shows pigeons valued per unit and beef prices per pound. Mentions of horse hides and small percentage figures appear in the noisy OCR snippet, but the exact figures are unclear.
Sale schedule lists auctions from October to December in Washington Keota and surrounding towns. Names include Forrest Embree J W Henderson Evert Kinde Well man Shalia Knotek Mike Trier Welsh and Wagner Ed Flanders Ernest Carlson Albert Taylor. Hogs Jerseys Poland China and dairy cattle featured with specific sale dates and locations.
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