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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1921
Page
13
Wheat and corn markets firmed late amid light trading and bearish crop signals in England. May wheat hovered around 1.34 and July near 1.14, with a sharp finish as freezing forecasts boosted buying. corn held firm on light offerings and weather fears, oats followed the cereal trend, and hogs pushed higher in provisions.
Cattle receipts about 6 000 with prices 75c to 1.00 lower for the week. hogs stronger with top early at 9.90 and bulk 8.50 to 9.30. Sheep receipts around 6 000, lambs steady to 25c higher, sheep steady. East St Louis totals show cattle mostly 50c lower, hogs up to 10c higher, veal calves mixed.
Omaha market notes receipts about 6,000 hogs steady to 10 cents higher as closing weak. Bulk medium and light butchers mostly 8.60 to 9.10 with top at 9.30. heavy weights 250 pounds and over 8.60 to 8.50 packing grades 7.50 to 8.00. Cattle receipts 150 with steers and heifers 50 to 100 lower. top steers 9.25, bulls 25 to 75 cents lower. stockers and feeders 50 to 75 cents lower. Sheep receipts none. light lambs 13 cents higher, heavier lambs 25 to 70 cents lower, feeders strong.
Cattle receipts for the period show varying gains with fat cows, heifers, and calves moving at mixed prices. Hog demand remains steady with most sales near 8 to 9.50 per hundredweight. Sheep and light lambs hold steady while heavy lambs dip slightly. Local and St Joseph markets report similar trends with receipts around 300 to 500 head and prices aligning with regional levels.
New York market report shows butter steady with higher creamery receipts and varied scores. eggs irregular with fresh gathered extra firsts around 30 cents. cheese weak with whole milk flats about 2 to 3 cents. live poultry quiet with hens higher at 26 cents. pork and lard unsettled. hay steady for No 1 at 1.40 to 1.45. Additional Western markets in Chicago and St. Louis report mixed changes. no major shifts in Kansas City.
Stocks drift lower as Pennsylvania hits a new low, oils edge up slightly, and major rails slip. Trading remains thin with a steady close, while London rates rise and British labor fears weigh on sentiment. Key names include United States Rubber, Westinghouse, Stromberg Carburetor, American Can, and Mexican Petroleum.
The United States Grain Growers, Inc. held its first business session in Chicago with HH Gustafson of Lincoln Nebraska elected chairman and Frank M Jireres of Fort Dodge Iowa as temporary secretary. Gustafson noted broad co operative marketing experience and leadership of companies that marketed about 100 million dollars of farm products last year. A marriage licenses list follows with A D Weir Cedar Falls and Fleete Carroll Hampton among others.
Advertisement style note appears mixed with stray phrases about advertising and poetry. Mentions Garland Fronz and Robert Browning in a fragmented way with references to immediate results and creating poetry by a young age. No coherent event or date.
Communications to the Evening Courier and Reporter are requested regarding the federal tuberculosis test. The subject reports losing 23 head in the fire test, including several registered animals, then three head in a second test, and anticipates passing the next trial with flying colors.
Ames Iowa April 9 heart of sowing and feeding better beef at less cost found by actual experiments will be explained at annual cattle feeders day here Monday April 11. Attendance expected to be one of the largest and most interested. Prof John M Evvard in charge of experiments and with Prof Ef W Kildee head of animal husbandry. Morning program runs from 7 30 until afternoon with hourly demonstrations. Packer John Paxson and A E Peterson open proceedings with market cattle valuations.
Independence, April 9. The 1921 Independence agricultural and livestock fair is shaping up. Roy Giles, secretary of the fair association, reports free acts have been secured and premiums will be larger and better. Stock displays will be more extensive, with 20 entries in the Polland-China department. Two cattle herds booked from Nashua, two from Fayette, one from Greeley, and several horses and cattle herds promised by Black Hawk county breeders.
Tama County in April announces the appointment of W. R. Naumann as assistant county agent under J. W. Pendry. Naumann, a 1918 Iowa State College graduate and horticulturist, will oversee club work poultry management and horticulture with a week of orchard spraying demonstrations across Tama county starting Wednesday. The schedule lists seven meetings in Gladrock Lincoln Garvin Traer Dysart Richland and other townships with farms of local residents. At Keokuk County Wool Growers’ annual meeting, 30 blankets were ordered from virgin wool, with Dave Vollmer Sigourney president John Moore Keswick secretary-treasurer W. K. Allen.
Nelson's purebred Guernsey Molle Lou, a 12-year-old cow producing 1,389 pounds of milk with 4.7 percent and 65.3 pounds butterfat, tops Independence Cow Testing Association for March. Holstein Elzabdeth Fobes Wayne, 4, ranked second with 1,316 pounds milk and 3.4 percent butterfat. 245 cows were tested in 21 herds. butterfat prices ranged from 47 to 51 cents.
The United States farm labor situation is declared decidedly easier than in three years, per the Department of Agriculture reports to the Bureau of Crop Estimates dated April 2. The supply is ample and wages have fallen across regions, with Indiana and Illinois farmers practicing strict economy and Idaho noting reasonable wages and no shortage.
Holden Mo April 9 For the second time in as many years J P Shalop of this point is named the champion corn grower in the United States by the Farm Journal of Philadelphia. He receives a gold medal, symbolic of the honor. Shalop’s 5 acre plot averaged 129.2 bushels in the recent contest on 15 12 percent moisture. The nearest competitor, an Indiana farmer, averaged 1288 bushels.
In Wesley on April 9 a litter from Dick Lettel’s son yielded a pig or half pig with one pair of hindquarters. The remarkable birth, near Wesley in Kossuth County, drew attention as similar oddities are rare in local farming. Both piglets were dead at farrowing and farmers have yet to find another such case in the county.
The article profiles Riley Ford, a Waterloo area farmer born in 184? who settled in Washington township in 1855. It recounts four Ford brothers, their long farming careers near Janesville, and Riley’s still active work ethic at age 65 to 78, with memories of two-handed seeders, harvest methods, and rising taxes.
J Wilbert Miller of Orange township near Waterloo says young men should start farming now. Costs are down, rents risk high, and markets show life. Miller tips dairying and crop production, expects more dairy output as grain prices adjust. He reports strong spring pie production from seven sows, with more farrows due.
Neighbors from La Porte City and Big Creek township led by J. S. Cronk seeded Charles Rupprichs 70 acre farm in Big Creek. Ten discs three seeders and a drag worked in the field to cover large area swiftly aiding Rupprich who had been sidelined by a foot infection.
Waverly, Ia April 9 Eleven home demonstration meetings will be held for Bremer county women next week. Miss Neale Knowles state leader of home demonstrators will assist local demonstrator Margaret Harris in organizing the work. Meetings occur in ten townships over five days with an all county rally in Waverly to close the series.
Herschel F. Sage of Battery B Thirteenth Field Artillery at Schofield Barracks Honolulu seeks Vercey Perrin, a World War II era soldier, said to be in or near Waterloo. Sage offers news and encloses a letter for Perrin and asks readers or local residents to help reunite them by delivering messages through the Courier office.
Fort Dodge Iowa April 9 Bricklayers and masterbuilders settled the wage controversy at a rate of 1 per hour until February 1 1922. Carpenters still report no change. Bricklayers have resumed work on the high school building with the condition that no carpenter work is performed on the project.
Black Hawk township tops county reports in auto ownership and egg production. Of 197 farmers, 196 own cars totaling 117 autos. 14,579 poultry produced 34,039 dozen eggs worth 39 cents each. The township covers 21,499 taxed acres with large holdings such as R. E. Shiling, C. St. Gutknecht & Co., and Wot Brandhorst. Mules are rare. Holstein-Friesian cows rank Iowa high with 7,251 head in the county.
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