Opening Market Report on Hogs Cattle and Sheep Prices
Estimated receipts today reach 22 000 hogs and 26 000 sheep with cattle at 22 000. Market opens with hogs 20 to 25 higher than yesterday and top at 20 50. Cattle show steady to lower trends with calves strong and cows and bulls varied. Receipts yesterday totalled 18 371 hogs 2 304 cattle and 28 206 cattle and sheep combined. sheep receipts today 26 000 with natives at 75 percent of westerns and feeders steady to higher.
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Merkeer
Iverne
Local Listing by EF Wagner Co. Iowa City Manager
Furnished by EF W Wagner Co Iowa City with L B Hunt as manager contact phone 726 for details and availability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EF. W. Wagner &Co
Iowa City
Iowa
L B. Hunt
Jidiers' Superstition and War Horse Legend
A fragmented item notes superstition around a mernted nun and a wary figment that a war horse must pass a threshold to prove a claim. The passage hints at belief in fate tied to a person and horse, with unclear specifics and damaged context.
Public sales listed across farms in Iowa in 1918 journal
A long list of agricultural sales is noted with dates and sellers from various Iowa towns including Wellman Kalona Washington and Columbus Junction. Items include Duroc Jerseys Poland Chinas and Chester Whites with sales from September 21 to October 12 1918. A correction clarifies the Rinner Jersey cow and Duroc Jersey sale date.
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Milan
John Wagner
Ptember
L. H. Rinner
Noble
Duroc
P. J. Welsh
Wellman
Poland
W. C. Brenneman
Kalona
J. M. Lord & Son
Ainsworth
R. F. Smylie
Journal Office
South
Washington
Dee
Milo Shalla Moves Duroc Pigs and Local Hog Trade
Milo Shalla begins moving his young Durocs as two hogs take an auto ride on Monday. Pigs are of the same type as Trier & Carlson and Smylie, with litters by Premier Chief Orion Cherry King and Kine Bob. Dave McLaughlin shipped 300 feeder hogs not weighed due to rain. Wilson Ashby plans Ames fall entry and college training work. A red oak log sow is to be used for a woodworking project southeast of Wellman.
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Frank Bishop
Cedar Township
Mrs. Bishop
Milo Shalla
Milo
Trier & Carlson
Smylie
Iowa
Orion Cherry King
Bob
Dave McLaughlin
McLaughlin
Wilson Ashby
Ralph Ashby
Pilotsburg
Ames
Perfect Model
Golden Model Booster
Cherry King
Golden Model
Pathfinder
Hog and mule road work hinted near Wellman farm sale
A rural report notes road drag and mule herd activities near Tom Flaherty's place while Pr J Welsh plans to take a young hog herd into market. The fall sale features seventeen sows from K A Wonder and boars from a young sire plus three sows from Des Moines Fair champion line, with a strong yearling and multiple grand and litter relations included.
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Pr J. Welsh
Wellman
Pete
King
Wheat yields showing gains for August across Ainsworth to Crawfordsville
The threshers report by D. D. Stephens for August tallies 5,032 bushels with 2,173 bu from Marquis smooth spring wheat and 2,129 bu from Early Java bearded spring wheat. Winter wheat averaged 29.5 bu per acre across 72 acres, while 117 acres of Early Java spring wheat yielded 44 bu less grain.
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D. D. Stephens
Ainsworth
Crawfordsville
Mr. Stephens
Java
Time in Greenland Defies Standard Breakfast Hours
In Greenland the long night season renders daylight saving irrelevant. A hotel clerk quips that breakfast hours stretch from half past March to quarter of May, illustrating the extreme variation in time perception in the polar region.
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Greenland
Greenland Hotel
Farm Laborers to be Deferred in New Draft Plan
A wartime policy agreement sets deferment for essential farm labor under new draft categories. District advisers will assess needs for skilled workers in agriculture, with a questionnaire sent to county agents to report local farm-labor requirements and help move workers to districts where needed.
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Washington, D. C
War Labor Policies Board
Secretary of War
Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of Labor
Department of Agriculture
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Chicago
SHUEP
Che
John A. Babcock Commission
C. & Yards
Illinois
Close OF Grain Futures
ST. Louis
Farm and Stock News
the Journal’s Farm Department
Jay J. Newlin
Gabriel
HOG House
Washington, Iowa
Tom Flaherty
H. L. Clark
Columbus Junction
Booster
Orion Cherry Ning
Columbus Junction, Iowa
Alliman Bros
Noble, Iowa
Wayland Phone
Kairview
Col
Orion King
Pathfinder, Jr
Wm. J. Beranek
R. No
Riverside, Iowa
al Wagner
Washington Square
Deering
John Flynn
Aus
Sutherland
J. A. McCoy
Moriarty
Rinner
Olds
Noble and
Crawfordsvilles
D. F. Macon
W. K. Henss
Wayland
J. 8. Roth
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