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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1922
Page
2
Estimated receipts for hogs 15 000 cattle 5 000 sheep 9 000. Hogs mostly 25 higher with top around 10 40 and heavy weights around 9 00 to 10 40. Beef steers and cows shown with varied ranges and strong fat lambs, feeders firm and lambs steady. Also Wheat Corn Oats futures with mixed gains and cash grain bids noted. Receipts totals: hogs 22124 cattle 12922 sheep 15093 calves 4004.
Booster club meets Tuesday September 26 with Mrs John Green at Walnut school house Sunday school at 10 am. An extra meeting at Mrs Belle Palmer's Thursday Sept 28. Bible Study with Mrs Frank Wilson Monday 2 30. Presbyterian bake sale Saturday Sept 30 location to be announced. Baptist choir practice tonight at 8 and Eureka church homecoming Sunday 24 with Sunday school at 10 and worship at 11 led by Rev Barker followed by dinner at 12.
Basement gathering invites church members to a full day with coffee songs readings and talks. Various groups schedule meetings including Washington Council K of, Pythian Sisters, American Legion Auxiliary and Zeradatha Council with reminders and specimen duties.
In New Zealand milking machines are in use on about 9000 farms. The widespread adoption reflects modernization of dairy operations and impacts efficiency across the sector.
Real estate owners west of Washington Iowa warn that hunting on their land is strictly forbidden from now on. All trespassers will be prosecuted and parents urged to inform children as no exceptions will be made.
Henry County notes report that baby beeves shipped to Chicago shrank little due to heat, but buyers lowered prices by about fifty cents a hundred. Chicago and Ottumwa buyers paid less, while Des Moines calves sold at $11.25 average for Iowa State Fair entries. Plans form to organize a larger baby beef club this fall with youths ages ten to twenty urged to join.
Geo H Kepper north of Winfield reports about forty tons of alfalfa hay from an eight acre field with another green crop ready to cut. The old field, heavily fertilized, was inoculated and improved by using a single disc grain drill diagonally to cut the crust, followed by double harrowing to make a mulch that greatly aided the alfalfa.
Henry county dairymen plan a Tuesday departure from Mt. Pleasant to Waterloo for the Dairy Cattle show on September 26 and 27. They aim to arrive by noon and return the next day, with final plans to be confirmed by contacting the County Agent at the Farm Bureau office.
As the blue grass pasture dried in August Perl Van Syoe began cutting green corn for his herd on his farm. The article notes his priority of feeding cattle after pasture conditions worsened.
A Mt Union area trend shows farmers converting from blue grass pastures to intensified farming with green fodder and summer silos. Facing scarce rough land, growers plan eight to ten tons of green fodder per acre to sustain milk and beef through hot dry periods while awaiting fall pasture recovery.
Sale dates and locations for Duroc Jersey and Poland China stock across Iowa. Listings include Alleman Bros Noble Keota Wellman Washington What Cheer Riverside Brighton Kalona and other towns with sales from Sept 23 to Oct 31. The notices name sellers such as Robert Sheetz Tom Karr P. Henson and J C Huston, among others.
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