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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1918
Page
2
Estimated receipts for cattle 25 000 and sheep 84 000 with a second report noting 45 000 today. Opening slow with early sales 15 to 25 below yesterday’s average. Hogs active but mostly 15 to 25 lower. butcher hogs 18 45, packing hogs 16 75 to 17 50, pigs 14 75 to 16 50. Lambs and yearlings steady to strong with good to prime 16 65 to 16 85. Receipts and shipments for yesterday listed alongside.
John Rittenhouse, returning from an autumn fishing trip, shipped nine Shorthorn heifers and two Percheron stallions to Minnesota as a sidelined result of his salesmanship. A tractor plowing demonstration on the farm preceded the remark about overnight work. Howard McArlin works the cornfield daily with Jack noting he averages around 0 bushels per day, leaving about 60 acres to harvest which would take him roughly forty days solo.
The article notes ongoing trouble with cattle while work finishes on a new house by Mr. Deuker. Family members have lived in one section of the old house and slept in the other across the road. Weather and muddy roads hinder progress as colder days approach, but the modern house promises greater comfort later.
H D Bull makes steady progress in corn harvest but worm damage lowers yield. W H Deuker, once a Polled Durum cattle breeder, has moved entirely to sheep farming northeast of Riverside. He now runs 850 head of sheep with 257 breeding ewes and reports selling 250 lambs breeding stock and 1600 head through pastures and feedlots at a profit.
Wm Eitermiller reports dry ground hindering plowing yet notes soil is turning over well for an early spring garden. He praises Poland China hogs and red hogs by the barn and recalls changes in Poland breeding. Ralph Desing delays sale due to the flu but builds a new hog house of building tile with a north south gable roof and plans a cement feeding floor.
C P Bradford reports job drag on the roads south of Ralph Desing's area. The recently worked roads are causing obstruction during ongoing maintenance.
J. B. Denison reports about 22 acres harvested with cattle in 20 acres of stalks. He notes corn from Ohio seed yields poorly compared to native seed, with worm damage and later maturation than other corn. Chickens at A. E. Paul’s farm react to the delayed harvest (Continued on Page 3).
Fontanelle residents organized fifty five men and thirty teams to husk corn for two ill farmers. They first cleaned 600 bushels on William Haughenberry’s farm, then moved to Wil Purdy’s thirty acres where all corn was husked. The effort shows strong community support in Fontanelle on October 31.
A new guard for the finger is worn inside to provide protection while remaining invisible. The device aims to prevent injury during use and is designed to be discreet and practical for daily tasks.
Mrs T Neurever of Tau Claire Wisconsin writes of a severe croup and the milkman curing whooping cough with Foley's Honey and Tar Compound. Mrs D Gilkeson of Youngstown Ohio says her little girl recovered after one dose relieved throat inflammation and the cough left her. The remedy has been used for years for coughs croup and chest irritation and is sold by Faremons Pharmacy.
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