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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1919
Page
4
Chicago markets report today receipts of 21 000 hogs 16 000 cattle and 39 000 sheep with holdovers and steady to mixed quotes. Hogs mostly 25 to 50 cents lower with tops around 18.00. cattle varied by weight with calves and veal showing strength. sheep opened slow but steady for killing grades and slight declines for feeders.
Iowa City based grain market update from E. W. Wagner & Co. led by manager B. Hunt details closing futures figures for key grains.
Mr and Mrs Frank Kallaus return from a honeymoon that covered Minneapolis South Dakota Canada and other regions. They drove 1500 miles by automobile and enjoyed the trip. They will be at home in a few days six miles from Riverside.
Marjorie asks daily how long before she can attend school. She says she is tired of being ignorant.
A 100 dollar reward offer claims Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh not cured by other remedies. The ad asserts the medicine works through the blood to heal mucous surfaces and eliminate poisons, with testimonials of long-standing reliability and early results.
In this county farm update workers fill silos early as corn dries and yields rise with manure lime and phosphate treatments. Local students Lloyd Foster Marion and Ruth George start Washington high school with several others. remodeling projects and visits to Riverside noted. County trials show check plots at Ames yield 14.2 bushels of wheat versus 33.7 with manure lime and phosphate, while Lee county reports clover yields rising from 2.87 to 4.85 tons per acre with manuring and minerals.
The first and fourth place Aberdeen Angus calves from the state fair baby beef competition were bought by the animal husbandry department at Iowa State College. The calves will be fed for showing at the International Live Stock Show in Chicago. They were owned and exhibited by Cleo and Calvin Korns of Hartwick, Poweshiek County.
USDA specialists advise poultry keepers to feed about one quart of scratch grain and an equal weight of mash daily to thirteen general purpose hens or about sixteen hens of egg breeds. For 100 Leghorns and general purpose fowls the daily amounts equal about seven and a half pounds of scratch and mash per group. With free range green feed hens may consume around 75 pounds per year for general purpose hens and 55 pounds for Leghorns, excluding greens.
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station reports wheat yields more than double this year with phosphate fertilizers and similar gains in alfalfa. Results held across most sections where cooperative farmer trials ran. Manure applications of 12 to 16 tons per acre in rotation also raised yields on otherwise untreated land. Limestone appears as a soil amendment in the discussion.
The G E B Sargent company uses three autos and one trailer to haul corn to the Hampton Kelley plant near Hampton Indiana. Loads average 4500 pounds with a record 8000 pounds for a single trailer. One way distances reach twelve miles as trucks run up to four trips daily.
In Czecho Slovakia goats replace cows as milk source as war depleted cattle. War wear has left fields and pastures short of livestock while harvest proceeds and factories show the toll. Children and elders herd goats as cheaper, mature, fast-reproducing milking stock becomes common.
A trimmed excerpt contrasts memory cultivation with laziness in remembering names and places. It argues that sharpening the memory enhances the person, warning against relying on others to recount incidents.
Farmers and county agents in Iowa discuss wage standards for corn huskers after World War II. A statewide questionnaire from Merle McDonald seeks prevailing local wages to prevent disparities as corn harvests remain strong and market prices influence pay.
A farmer raising wages to secure his harvest triggers protests over fair pay, while a health ad promotes Chamberlain's Tablets for indigestion and constipation with Lemmon's Drug Store as the outlet.
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